The ORM Foundation

Thank you Terry, I understand your points. Ken, I see that ORM has several advantages over RDF and OWL, and yet, RDF and OWL seem to be more popular.  I thought that some ideas may be copied, and URI could be one of them. But I understand Terry's point. PC

In this simplified metamodel for ORM, UUID are used to identify elements in the model.  This contrasts with RDF which uses Universal Resources Identifiers (URI).  This observation led me to the following thought: what if ORM used URI too ? What if type identifiers were prefixed with a web address, implicitly or explicitly ? It would ...

Thanks Clifford, I understand the need for commercial returns.  For some reason, I favor a free drawing tool, and chargeable additional services on the server, which seems to be the opposite of your approach.   Are you aware that your javascript source code for APRIMO can easily be read on most browsers?  I have just accessed the ...

Thank you Brian, I'm glad to hear that you are making progress on this development. I wish I could give you an answer on the sponsorship side.  Maybe it is possible to develop it as an alternative to the Visual Studio version, and draw some revenue from it. For example, by charging for some of its functionality, or when the model ...

Clifford, Thank you for sharing your idea of using Raphael for a web drawing tool, although it's not clear how much progress you've made on that.  Wouldn't it be great to have a free web drawing tool capable of creating an ORM model, and then to export it using a standard ORM exchange format, so that additional functions could ...

I found this simplified metamodel for ORM, which goes in the direction of an exchange format. Unfortunately, I can't read the PDF file. Could someone fix this?  Is the work still in progress ? Pierre C.  

Dear all, I'd like to hear your thoughts about ORM Lite.  In a previous thread, Fenton asked for a free tool for ORM, to be used by students and enthusiasts. It would certainly help in the adoption of ORM.  I would think that ORM Lite could be the answer.  It would just need an update of its user interface to make it easier ...

 Thank you Ken.  This is very helpful. PC

You may want to open a new topic on RDF and OWL in the"Standard" section, next to SBVR.  Here is a a question I would like to see answered in that section :  How does ORM compare to RDF and OWL ? Among other things, what is the benefit of n-ary predicates compared to binary ones ?  Any pointer to an existing document on ...

 Thank you Terry, this is helpful.