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Semantic Foundation
The shared semantic layer: nineteen models that give data, process and decision one language.
- Status
- In preparation
- Lead demand
- Modeller · Solutionist posture
- Spine plane
- L3 Meaning
- Method stage
- Connect · Consolidate
- Repository
- Ingqiqo/semantic-foundation · opening soon
· What it gives you
If you want every tool, dashboard and model to speak one business language,
A shared semantic layer that both your analysts and your applications query, so a metric means the same thing wherever it appears.
I The problem
Teams argue about numbers when they are really arguing about words. A shared vocabulary is the cheapest coherence an organisation can buy.
II Approach
- Harvest the terms a domain actually uses, from documents, systems and people.
- Arrange them into a taxonomy, then an ontology with explicit relationships and constraints.
- Bind each concept to the data fields and process steps that express it.
- Version the model so changes in meaning are visible and reviewable.
- Serve it as one semantic layer shared by DuckDB and Polars, carrying the meaning, structure, mind, decision and accountability model families.
III Structure
- TerminologyAgreed terms and definitions
- TaxonomyHierarchy and classification
- OntologyConcepts, relationships, constraints
- BindingsConcepts mapped to fields and process steps
- Model familiesMeaning · Structure · Mind · Decision · Accountability
IV Craft and next
Ontology modelling · Data modelling · Knowledge engineering
Publishing a worked model for the employment economics domain.
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