Michael DeBellis
The Turing/Church Proofs: How Logicians Created Computer Science
I try to focus most of my posts on practical topics that will help people developing ontologies and knowledge graphs. However, every once...
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Michael DeBellis
- Apr 9
- 3 min
Using SPARQL to Delete Duplicate Instances
Describes developing a query to delete objects that have different IRIs but are essentially duplicates.
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Michael DeBellis
- Feb 1
- 1 min
Using an LLM to help build ontologies: The Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) Assistant
Using the Open AI Assistant tool to create an LLM enabled assistant to using the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
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Michael DeBellis
- Nov 21, 2023
- 8 min
Puns in the Web Ontology Language (OWL): Why We Need Them and How to Use Them
The reasons that puns are needed in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and some discussion of how to use them
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Michael DeBellis
- Nov 9, 2023
- 2 min
One Good Hack Deserves Another
SPARQL query to delete asserted property values on datatype super properties
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Michael DeBellis
- Oct 25, 2023
- 3 min
The DaanMatch System: A Knowledge Graph linking NGOs with UN Sustainable Development Goals
The DaanMatch project and how knowledge graphs and NLP were used to facilitate linking NGOs with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Michael DeBellis
- Oct 24, 2023
- 4 min
Using OWL Models to Bring Rigor to the "Soft" Sciences
Examples of using the Web Ontology Language to rigorously define theories in the social sciences
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Michael DeBellis
- Aug 28, 2023
- 2 min
Creating a Custom Rules View Tab
Note: There was a problem with the link to the PDF for the tutorial below. It worked for me because I owned the file but for others since...
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Michael DeBellis
- Jun 26, 2023
- 1 min
YouTube Videos for Protégé Tutorial
Link to a YouTube playlist that takes you through some basic steps in Protégé
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Michael DeBellis
- Feb 28, 2023
- 2 min
New Version of Protégé!
New version of Protégé rocks!
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Michael DeBellis
- Jan 10, 2023
- 6 min
Using SKOS to Define Mappings
Describes ways to use the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to define mappings from one Concept Scheme to another.
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Michael DeBellis
- Jan 10, 2023
- 6 min
Synonyms, IRIs, and Labels in OWL and SKOS
Basic concepts related to synonyms in the Web Ontology Language (OWL), Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), and Protégé.
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Michael DeBellis
- Dec 22, 2022
- 4 min
IRI Mappings in Protégé and Web Protégé
When you load an ontology from Desktop Protégé to Web Protégé defaults related to IRIs aren't what you would expect. Tells how to set them.
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Michael DeBellis
- Nov 17, 2022
- 3 min
UN Sustainable Development Goals Ontology
Case study of how Cellfie and SPARQL can automate developing an ontology to model the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Michael DeBellis
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
Semantic Web vs. Property Graphs
Discusses the pros and cons of property graphs (Neo4J and Cypher) contrasted with the Semantic Web stack: RDF, OWL, SPARQL, SHACL, SWRL
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Michael DeBellis
- May 5, 2022
- 1 min
Knowledge Representation and the Semantic Web
I recently wrote a paper with Robert Neches who used to be my boss at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI). When I work with...
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Michael DeBellis
- Jan 25, 2022
- 2 min
Testing and Debugging Ontologies
Best practices for creating and using individuals as test data for OWL ontologies
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Michael DeBellis
- Jan 4, 2022
- 2 min
Making UUIDs Easier to Use With Prefixes
In a previous blog post I discussed the difference between user supplied names for IRIs and UUIDs. I want to share a tip that Jim Balhoff...
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Michael DeBellis
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
Using SPARQL to Refactor User Names to UUIDs
Use SPARQL to convert user supplied IRI names to UUIDs
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Michael DeBellis
- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
An Agile Approach to Knowledge Graph Development
A paper on the CODO knowledge graph that captures epidemiological and contact tracing data about the Covid-19 pandemic.
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