On Thursday May 16th, Cambridge Semantics (CSI) participated in DATA demo day in Washington, DC. The event, hosted by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, was an opportunity for leading technology vendors to demonstrate how their products could leverage the data standards proposed in the DATA Act to make government spending more transparent and to identify waste and fraud. As a member of...
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Part of building a software business based on Semantic Web technologies is working continuously to understand and elucidate the benefits of Semantic Web technologies both in general and specifically for enterprise information management. My colleagues and I have recently had a few different opportunities to explain the Semantic Web and its value for different audiences: The...
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At Cambridge Semantics we use the W3C semantic web standards to create conceptual canonical data models, in particularly using the web ontology modeling language called OWL. The conceptual models are declarative and express information in the way that the domain expert or business user, understands it – usually as a series of interlinked concepts and properties. Unlike most traditional...
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Why is the Semantic Web valuable? What makes it different or special? In the past month, I've heard this question asked of me more than at any time in the past. The source of the questions is from the surprising success of Semantic University . I was humbled at SemTech to be congratulated not by old hands in the community, but by fresh members. One person told me she had opened up 7 lessons in...
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Mike Bergman had a a recent post about Linked Data and RDF serialization . It's a long read, so I'll just excerpt what I think is the key idea, and one that I agree with (emphasis is mine). … effective data exchange does not require RDF . Most instance records are already expressed as simple entity-value pairs, and any data transfer serialization — from key-value pairs to JSON to CSV...
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