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Unified Cloud Interface: setting RDF for failure?

I don’t get it. I just read Reuven Cohen’s description of the Unified Cloud Interface project that he recently started. It’s nothing less than using RDF to create “a Semantic Cloud Infrastructure capable of adapting to a variety of methodologies /...

0 replies - 4016 views - 02/03/09 by William Vambenepe in News

A new SPIN on enriching a model with domain knowledge (constraints and inferences)

Back when I was at HP and we got involved with what turned into SML (now a W3C candidate recommendation), we tried to make a case for the specification to be based on RDF/OWL rather than XML/XSD/Schematron. It was a strange situation from a technical...

1 replies - 2338 views - 01/13/09 by William Vambenepe in News

The art of reconciling items in your IT management model

Whether you call it a CMDB or some other name, any repository of IT model elements has the problem of establishing whether two entities are the same or not. Here is a quick map of the problem space. Why there is no “one true solution”

0 replies - 2902 views - 01/06/09 by William Vambenepe in News