About Semantic ArtsWe exist to help you unlock the value of the information in your information management systems. ~ For 22 years we have focused singularly on uncovering the meaning that is often hidden in the complexity and opacity of traditional information systems. We have assembled what might be the largest team in the world of professionals focused solely on this, and have built methodology, tools and quality assurance processes to make sure we continue to deliver the highest possible quality and outcomes.WHAT IMPORTANT TRUTHS DO FEW AGREE WITH YOU ON * That all enterprise information systems domains can be expressed and modeling with a few hundred concepts, without loss of fidelity * That an enterprise ontology can be built for any enterprise that unites all their domains and ultimately eliminates systems integration * That most traditional application development is unnecessary and can be replaced with model driven developmentSemantic Arts, Inc.SAI_caeffcc4-9660-11ea-96f5-970a0f83ea00Semantic Arts TeamDave McCombPrinciple ~ Dave McComb is the President and co-founder of Semantic Arts. He and his team help organizations uncover the meaning in the data from their information systems. Dave is also the author of "The Data-Centric Revolution", "Software Wasteland" and "Semantics in Business Systems". For 20 years, Semantic Arts has helped firms of all sizes in this endeavor, including Proctor & Gamble, Goldman Sachs, Schneider-Electric, Lexis Nexis, Dun & Bradstreet, and Morgan Stanley. Prior to Semantic Arts, Dave co-founded Velocity Healthcare, where he developed and patented the first fully model driven architecture. Prior to that, he was a part of the problem.Steve CaseHead of Business Development and Staff Planning ~ Steve Case has over 20 years of progressive new business development and account management experience across multiple technology professional service disciplines. At Semantic Arts, Steve takes on a dual role of expanding the sales footprint while overseeing staffing responsibilities with the team of Ontology management consultant experts. He serves as the primary communication point for customer engagement, resource coordination, proposal generation, account care, and delivery escalation. His strength is in collaborating with business leaders to understand the business problems and desired outcomes, while identifying and bringing the right talent mixture to successfully find solutions. This includes accountability for meeting client expectations, maximizing customer satisfaction, and securing on-going, trustworthy working relationships.Ryan ChandlerAssociate Business Developer ~ Ryan works for Semantic Arts as a business developer and data-centric ambassador. He spent over 20 years in the Fortune 50 building large-scale analytical infrastructure, leading complex development projects and as a senior data scientist. His passion is for people and helping humans and machines work together more naturally. He was led to Semantic Arts by an intense desire to overturn the status quo and deliver on the radical simplification semantics and data-centrism offer. Currently finishing a PhD in cognitive and linguistic informatics, he is overly excitable about how smart our data can become and the prospect of having meaningful conversations with it.JT MetcalfChaos Mitigator ~ JT joined Semantic Arts at the beginning of 2022 as the corporate office’s Chaos Mitigator (a.k.a., Office Manager). Before joining the team, JT spent 12 years working in the non-profit sector. He earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Colorado State University in 2009. For Semantic Arts, JT is focused on keeping projects on track and on budget, fine tuning our communications, and maintaining general order and conformity within the ranks.Semantic Arts Ontology TeamDylan AbneyDylan Abney joined the Semantic Arts team as an entry-level Ontologist in the summer of 2021. Prior to joining the team, he studied and taught philosophy, earning M.A.s from the University of Arkansas and UCSB. In graduate school, his academic focus was on ontology, the philosophy of language (including formal semantics), and logic. Dylan enjoys reflecting on the first principles that guide the design and construction of ontologies, but he is equally excited to put these principles to work and leverage semantic technology to build a more data-centric world.Doug BeesonDoug Beeson has 30 years of experience in software development, data modelling and architecture. He started his professional career as an industrial engineer, moved on to science journalism, but came back to the technology fold when Netscape was released in 1995. Since then, he has designed software solutions for organizations in e-commerce, telecommunications, banking, manufacturing, and life sciences. A native of the Midwest, Doug has lived most of his adult life in French-speaking countries, including 25 years in Quebec, Canada. Besides the French language and the accompanying food, he has a particular affection for the Julia programming language and is determined to see a data-centric world powered by graphs and high-performance computing.Dan CareyDan is an ontologist and data architect with 30 years of consulting experience, 25 of it designing databases, data models, and data strategies with major IT service and consulting firms. With Semantic Arts, he develops and implements modular ontologies for large firms, primarily in the financial industry. In his prior work, he supported mostly government clients at the federal, state, and local levels. He holds a bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from Georgia Tech.Dalia DahlehDalia is an experienced ontologist with a background in software and mechanical engineering. She earned her master's degree in Information Engineering from the University of Toronto, where she focused her studies on knowledge modeling and semantic technologies. She published a research paper on the use of semantic solutions in smart cities, utilizing environmental ontologies to automate city performance. Following that, she worked as an ontology engineer in the healthcare industry, building IoT solutions that optimize daily processes at hospitals. She also has experience designing software for professional sports wearables. Outside of work, she enjoys cycling long distances and performing with hula hoops.Marc FeickertMarc Feickert has worked with data and knowledge structuring for over 10 years. He completed a Master's degree in Generative and Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Utah while working in the areas of knowledge engineering, knowledge management, and search architecture for a major genealogy software and research company. The combination of his work and academic path caused him to become a strong advocate for semantic technology. Marc is particularly skilled on the data levels of RDF modelling, with strengths in the SKOS standard and converting data to RDF. His greatest professional passion is creating results and implementing them according to customers' needs; his greatest hobby passion is creating award-level balloon sculptures; and his greatest passion is creating love and trust in his family.Ryan HohimerBorislav IordanovBorislav Iordanov is an ontologist with over 25 years experience as a software architect, programmer and manager. He is passionate about knowledge representation, graph databases and large-scale distributed systems. His mains domains of expertise include fintech, biotech and e-government. During a long career stretch in e-government, he earned several awards, including semi-finalist in Innovations in American Governments from the Harvard Kennedy School for the ontology-driven CRM system powering one of the largest 311 call centers in North America.Scott LooneyJessica SingerJessica Singer started with Semantic Arts as an Entry Ontologist in summer of 2021. She is a passionate ontologist with experience building multilingual ontologies for food traceability and provenance. She earned her degree in Bioresource Engineering from McGill University where she developed her passion for valorizing waste data and streamlining code through the use of ontologies. When she is not working with ontologies you can find her on the cross country ski trails around Montréal and conquering 160 km ski marathons.Steve StewardMichael F. Uschold, PhDMichael Uschold is an internationally recognized expert with over two decades experience in developing and transitioning semantic technology from academia to industry. He received his Ph.D. in AI from Edinburgh University in 1991 and an MSc. from Rutgers University in Computer Science in 1982. He pioneered the field of ontology engineering, co-authoring the first paper and giving the first tutorial on the topic in 1995 (in London). This leveraged the work he did in creating the influential "Enterprise Ontology". Michael is a senior ontology consultant at Semantic Arts, training and guiding clients to better understand and leverage semantic technology while he builds their commercial enterprise ontologies.Mark WallaceMark is an ontologist and software architect/developer with over 30 years of experience designing and building software and data-centric systems for government and commercial clients. He got into the Semantic Web in 2004, and his experience ranges from pure ontology development to large scale RDF applications with billions of triples. Mark has been an author and invited speaker in the Semantic Web community since 2009. With Semantic Arts, Mark gets to apply a broad range of skills including ontology modeling, software development, and project management. Mark holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida. Go Knights!Peter Winstanley, PhDPeter is an ontologist in the Semantic Arts team. He has a diverse background with experience in medical research, government, and in standards development. He was a contributor to the W3C "Data on the Web Best Practices" recommendation and an editor of the W3C "Data Catalog" vocabulary recommendation. A former interoperability specialist with the UK Government Linked Data and Data Architects' Working Groups and the European Commission "Joinup" semantic technologies community, he is currently co-Chair of the W3C Dataset Exchange Working Group.Rebecca YounesRebecca Younes is an ontologist and software developer with over 20 years of experience in both academia and the private sector. With an academic background in linguistics, including a BA from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and an MA from the University of Texas at Austin, Rebecca began her career in multilingual text-to-speech software development. With her first exposure to semantic technology, as a contributing developer to an open source semantic web application that facilitates networking among researchers in the health sciences, she was captivated by the potential of ontology-based models to connect, create, and provide meaning to data. Rebecca’s further work in semantic technology includes designing and building ontologies in the financial services and bibliographic domains, implementing conversion algorithms to migrate legacy bibliographic data to RDF, and presenting workshops and conference papers on modeling principles and ontology design patterns.Semantic Arts Development TeamJamie GuldenShawn GoodwinShawn Goodwin is a software developer who joined Semantic Arts in the winter of 2020. At Semantic Arts he helps develop the Data-Centric Architecture and the Model Driven user interface. Before coming to Semantic Arts, Shawn worked in library metadata, contributed to resource description, and supported the management of a large taxonomy. But primarily, he worked on integrating different siloed systems. He jumped at the chance to leverage semantic technology to support Semantic Arts in tearing down application silos. When he isn't marshalling computer languages to solve problems around knowledge organization, he spends his time in the Colorado mountains or reading ancient history.Neil GrahamDan HurlburtKaspar PolandKaspar Poland is a software developer who’s been with Semantic Arts since Fall of 2019. He focuses on how best to display and present ontologies to others through Semantic Arts’ Slow Reveal tool. As an intern turned employee, Semantic Arts is one of Kaspar’s first professional software development experiences, though, the interface between machines and humans always offers something new, and working on how best to explain topics graphically is something he loves to do. Aside from his work at Semantic Arts, Kaspar spends his time as a student at the University of Toronto, where he studies Computer Science and Math, and he enjoys traveling and exploring big cities.Edward ThomasEdward Thomas joined Semantic Arts as an entry level Developer in 2021. Prior to Semantic Arts, Edward studied Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Northern Colorado. He is excited to learn from the incredibly talented staff at Semantic Arts and to bring his individual vision and skills to the company.A world where enterprise information is widely understood and easily accessed by all who have permission_a1d6440a-c337-11ec-b483-59f10783ea00To lead as many firms as possible on their journey to a data-centric future_a1d645fe-c337-11ec-b483-59f10783ea00ValueCreate value - All our projects should be creating value for our clients. We are not trying to set up situations where our clients pay us because we have coerced them or made them dependent on us.ConsensusOne Voice - We can disagree violently in the office, but we will present our best consensus when we are with the client.SharingShare Equitably - We focus on ways to share the results of our efforts with our clients, our partners and our employees. Equitable sharing is based on contribution.LearningLifetime Learning - We value continual study and research to look for better ways, and to stay current in our discipline, rather than milking whatever expertise we have.RespectShow Respect - While focusing on results we need to remain mindful of the contribution, options and rights of others. In all our dealings we need to be humble.FunHave Fun - We are not here to suffer for the sake of the firm. We can accomplish all we set out to, stay true to our values and still have a good time, and take time off to enjoy our outside lives.Transformation ProjectsExpress data in an application neutral format, structure and vocabulary_a1d64c5c-c337-11ec-b483-59f10783ea001Data Centric Transformation ~ The data centric revolution posits that data really is the firm’s core asset. It needs to be expressed in an application neutral format, structure and vocabulary. Four of the core functions that applications currently provide will be shifted to shared infrastructure:Integrity & ConstraintsData integrity and constraint management will no longer be in the exclusive domain of the application code_a1d650ee-c337-11ec-b483-59f10783ea001.1AuthorizationsAuthorization rules will be expressed once and applied consistently to all access to data_a1d65314-c337-11ec-b483-59f10783ea001.2NavigationNavigation through and structure of the data will no longer be mediated by application code_a1d6545e-c337-11ec-b483-59f10783ea001.3Codes & FlagsInterpretation of obscure codes and flags will be purged from the application domain and replaced by governed and well understood, and shared taxonomies_a1d655bc-c337-11ec-b483-59f10783ea001.4Advisory ServicesProvide guidance on issues related to adoption of semantic technology and knowledge graphs_a1d6572e-c337-11ec-b483-59f10783ea002We have been focused exclusively on bringing semantic technology and knowledge graphs to corporations for 21 years. There are many Advisory Services interventions where we can provide distilled, specific guidance on issues related to adopting these technologies – including our advisory services.WorkshopsTackle thorny issues_a1d65daa-c337-11ec-b483-59f10783ea002.1AssessmentsReview projects as well as the maturity and state of systems_a1d65f30-c337-11ec-b483-59f10783ea002.22020-05-012022-04-23https://www.semanticarts.com/about/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net