Is there a digital “Standard Model” and what are the digital “quarks” that make it up?
A new approach to Ontology
Ontology should be based on science, not on philosophy…
An Ontology of Everything?
An impossible pipe dream right? Maybe not…
Taxis won’t get you there
Taxonomic thinking prevents ‘real’ data integration and limits insights…
The Rest is all Semantics
Much of this post and the illustrations within are taken from a Semantic Web lecture by John Davies, BT. The motivation behind the semantic web, for which OWL is the …
Don’t Point, it’s Rued
Pointers ultimately cause schisms and should be outlawed…
Drinking From a Fire Hydrant
This post on information overload is part 3 of a sequence. To get to the start click here. More and more our lives and interactions occur in the digital world, not …
Ziggurats but not Pyramids
Truncated [knowledge] pyramids are great for human sacrifices…
The Knowledge Pyramid
Before future posts can discuss true ontologies and how they fit into the range of computing systems, and most particularly how ontology-based systems differ fundamentally from todays taxonomy-level systems, we …