Every knowledge system has to wrestle with a deceptively simple question: what do we assert, and what do we derive? That line between assertion and derivation is where Object-Role Modeling (ORM) and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) with the Web Ontology Language (OWL) go in radically differe

In enterprise organisations today, two important disciplines are working in parallel universes, tackling nearly identical challenges whilst speaking completely different languages. Ontology architects and data architects are both wrestling with ETL processes, data modelling, transformations, referen