by Dave McComb | Dec 23, 2014 | The Whiteboard
As the Season to be Jolly gets into full swing, I reflect one of my favorite ways to be jolly: laughter. What makes us laugh (or not) in a given situation? Some people just laugh, like my mother, who regularly burst into gales of laughter, for no apparent...
by Dave McComb | Nov 24, 2014 | The Whiteboard
I wrote the following last year, and am inspired to share this more publicly, today, the Monday of Thanksgiving week, 2014. It is Thanksgiving Day, 2013 and I just came across an article describing how science has tied gratitude to “the tendency to feel more...
by Dave McComb | Nov 18, 2014 | The Whiteboard
We humans are categorizing machines, which is to say, we like to create metaphorical buckets, and put things inside. But there are different kinds of buckets, and different ways to model them in OWL and gist. The most common bucket represents a kind of thing, such as...
by Michael Uschold | Nov 4, 2014 | The Whiteboard
In a prior blog (SPARQL: Updating the URI of an owl:Class in place) we looked into how to use SPARQL to rename a class in a triple store. The main steps are below. We showed how to do this for the example of renaming the class veh:Auto to veh:Car. change the...
by Michael Uschold | Nov 4, 2014 | The Whiteboard
Background We have been developing solutions for our clients lately that involve loading an ontology into a triple store, and building a UI for data entry. One of the challenges is how to handle renaming things. If you want to change the URI of a class or property in...
by Dave McComb | Oct 17, 2014 | The Whiteboard
We’ve found ourselves working with D3(d3js.org) more and more lately, both for clients and for our own projects. So far we’ve really just begun to scratch the surface of what it can do (if you’re unfamiliar, take a moment to browse the examples)....
