Creating and Running Unit Tests Directly in Source Files with Org-mode

Frederick Giasson

Developing a computer program is not an easy task. The process needs a constant focus. Any interruption of that process means that time is spent re-focusing on it and errors are more prone to be introduced. The process involves analyzing a problem to solve by executing a series of steps. It involves writing about the problem we are trying to solve and writing about the solution we found to solve it. Finally it involves writing test procedures that can run to make sure that the current state of the implementation of the solution behaves as expected and that expected behavior is not altered by subsequent modifications.

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New UMBEL 1.50 Ships With 20 Linked Ontologies

Frederick Giasson

I am proud to announce the immediate release of UMBEL version 1.50. This is a major effort that took a year to release.

What is UMBEL?

Let’s start by explaining what is UMBEL for the ones that never encountered this project before. UMBEL stands for “Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer“. It is a conceptual structure that is designed to help content interoperate between systems.

UMBEL is a coherent general structure of 34 000 reference concepts which provides a scaffolding to link and interoperate other datasets and domain vocabularies. The conceptual structure is organized in a structure of 31 mostly disjoint SuperType.

UMBEL is written in OWL 2 and SKOS.

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