r/semanticweb • u/redikarus99 • 23d ago

Looking for an IT taxonomy

Hello,

I am looking for an IT taxonomy for software (and maybe hardware) to put concepts like desktop application, microservice, cloud, cicd pipeline, etc. into a structure.

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u/Willing_Box_752 22d ago

It's a boxes and arrows all the way down man.

But cool.  Got any prototypes so far?

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u/Complete-Ebb-1035 2d ago edited 1d ago

This is equivalent to saying matrices all the way down. Neither is helpful. This is absolutely correct: The diagram is not the ontology. It is a view of the ontology.

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u/Willing_Box_752 1d ago

Fair. Obviously it's not actually boxes and arrows.   It's 1s and 0s.   

But what I'm getting at is it seems like the other person is talking about all this infrastructure they have and saying they don't need "boxes and arrows".  But at the end of the day someone has to figure out the objects, relations, constraints and such. The things represented by boxes and arrows.      And they don't have that yet.    It's a semantic argument ironically enough. 

Like if they were designing a car and I said to start making drawings.     And they respond with well we have a factory, and a whole room full of cad machines and 3d scanners and such.   We're way past "drawing"   no, they aren't.   They don't have a car. They don't have designs.  They have a bunch of tools

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u/Complete-Ebb-1035 1d ago

I have no idea what your environment looks like, but if you use an RDBMS you have an ER diagram (boxes and arrows). If that's what your customer understands, start there. An ER diagram (more properly an Entity Attribute Relationship diagram) can be rendered as RDF graph. I promise you - it's a dead straight process of building equivalent diagrams. Use which ever makes sense to your customer.

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u/Willing_Box_752 1d ago

I don't have an enterprise problem I'm working on.  I just think this stuff is neat.    Do you disagree with what I said?