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• Musings on policies and rules of different types, dealing with different scopes

  There are many different kinds of policies and rules - going from high-level corporate policies on how business is conducted and its information is secured, to extremely low-level rules about how a specific component in a piece of hardware or software Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:36 PM by Andrea Westerinen | 2 Comments Filed under: Policy and Rules, Semantic Web, Business

• Why Create a Model?

  Obviously, to solve a problem. But, what is that problem? Is it specific or general? Is the model to represent what has to go into a database or be manipulated by code now , or to simplify a complex domain in order to understand it? In the business space, Read More... Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 1:16 PM by Andrea Westerinen | 1 Comments Filed under: Models, Semantic Web, Upper Ontologies, Business

• Semantics versus Renderings

  Another way to think about the title is semantics versus database/UML/... renderings. For me, "semantics" is not the structure or representation of data (property names, types, …) but the meanings, usages and conceptual hierarchies. An example is the Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:13 PM by Andrea Westerinen | 3 Comments Filed under: Models, Semantic Web, Business