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Watch Your S: A Subtle "Gotcha" of IRIs
A short article on a subtle "gotcha" involving http and https in IRIs plus some info on catalog XML files

Michael DeBellis
Oct 30, 20253 min read


Using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Knowledge Graphs to build a Climate Obstruction Portal
Description of a system developed using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and a knowledge graph as a portal for Climate Obstruction researchers

Michael DeBellis
Oct 9, 20251 min read


Using SPARQL Subgraphs to Segment TBox and ABox
Describes SPARQL queries to separate TBox entities from ABox.

Michael DeBellis
Aug 15, 20257 min read


Using ChatGPT to Generate English Labels for a Spanish Ontology
I've been using ChatGPT to help with various kinds of analysis and coding tasks. Today I had the problem of generating English labels for...

Michael DeBellis
Nov 2, 20245 min read


The Turing/Church Proofs: How Logicians Created Computer Science
12/27/24. When I first published this I got some of the details wrong. Specifically my discussion of countable and uncountable infinite...

Michael DeBellis
Jul 11, 20249 min read


Using SPARQL to Delete Duplicate Instances
Describes developing a query to delete objects that have different IRIs but are essentially duplicates.

Michael DeBellis
Apr 9, 20243 min read


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)

Michael DeBellis
Feb 1, 20241 min read


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

Michael DeBellis
Nov 21, 20238 min read


One Good Hack Deserves Another
SPARQL query to delete asserted property values on datatype super properties

Michael DeBellis
Nov 9, 20232 min read


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

Michael DeBellis
Oct 25, 20233 min read


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

Michael DeBellis
Oct 24, 20234 min read


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...

Michael DeBellis
Aug 28, 20232 min read


YouTube Videos for Protégé Tutorial
Link to a YouTube playlist that takes you through some basic steps in Protégé

Michael DeBellis
Jun 26, 20231 min read
New Version of Protégé!
New version of Protégé rocks!

Michael DeBellis
Feb 28, 20232 min read


Using SKOS to Define Mappings
Describes ways to use the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to define mappings from one Concept Scheme to another.

Michael DeBellis
Jan 10, 20236 min read


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.

Michael DeBellis
Jan 10, 20236 min read


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.

Michael DeBellis
Dec 22, 20224 min read


UN Sustainable Development Goals Ontology
Case study of how Cellfie and SPARQL can automate developing an ontology to model the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Michael DeBellis
Nov 17, 20223 min read


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

Michael DeBellis
May 30, 20223 min read


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...

Michael DeBellis
May 5, 20221 min read
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