Converting UML Models to OWL – Part 1: The Approach
Convert UML to OWL – why would you ever want to do this? One reason suffices: many enterprise models, that serve as either standards or enterprise schemas, are specified in UML. Increasingly, there is...
View ArticleLiving in the XML and OWL World – Comprehensive Transformations of XML...
Many enterprise information models are expressed using XML Schemas. Data between applications is commonly exchanged in XML, compliant with those schemas. Connecting XML data from different systems in...
View ArticleOntologies and Data Models – are they the same?
Yesterday a question about how ontologies may be different from logical data models was asked by a newcomer on TopBraid Users Forum. As to be expected on the TopBraid Forum, by ontologies he meant...
View ArticleEditing Ontologies and Instances with TopBraid EVN
TopBraid Enterprise Vocabulary Net (EVN) has become known as one of the premier tools for multi-user management of distributed taxonomies, but fewer people know that it is not limited to taxonomies....
View ArticleSHACL: The next-generation data modeling language
The Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) is an evolving specification produced by the W3C RDF Data Shapes Working Group. TopQuadrant is actively supporting the development of SHACL in the W3C Working...
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