Dave McComb

What Will It Take to Build the Semantic Technology Industry?

May 1, 2015July 29, 2021Dave McCombSemantics and Ontology

I get asked this question a lot, and I’d like...

Shirky, Syllogism and the Semantic Web

March 25, 2015August 11, 2021Dave McCombSemantics and Ontology

Revisiting Clay Shirky’s piece on the Semantic Web A friend...

Collections and Queries: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

March 2, 2015August 16, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

This blog is wholly inspired by an observation made by...

Degeneracy, Pot and Freebasing

February 27, 2015August 16, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

In 2013 marijuana became legal in Colorado and Washington. It...

White Paper: The Distinctionary

February 15, 2015August 16, 2021Dave McCombSemantics and Ontology, White Papers

Encyclopedias are generally not intended to help with definition. An...

White Paper: Semantic Profiling

January 21, 2015August 12, 2021Dave McCombSemantics and Ontology, White Papers

Semantic profiling is a technique using semantic-based tools and ontologies...

Fractal Data Modeling

January 19, 2015July 29, 2021Dave McCombSemantics and Ontology

Fractal geometry creates beautiful patterns from simple recursive algorithms. One...

Groans, Giggles and Gales of Laughter

December 23, 2014August 16, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

As the Season to be Jolly gets into full swing,...

Is the Road to Euphoria Paved by Thanking with Reckless Abandon?

November 24, 2014August 24, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

I wrote the following last year, and am inspired to...

gist: Buckets, Buckets Everywhere, Who Knows What to Think?

November 18, 2014August 24, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

We humans are categorizing machines, which is to say, we...