FIB-DM Resources SharePoint – Articles

A screenshot of the Articles folder in the Releases library on the FIB-DM Resources SharePoint.
FIB-DM Resources Master SharePoint – Articles folder

The 4 PDF articles are a deep dive into the FIB-DM structure.

  1. Finance Domain ontology transformed into an Enterprise Data Model
  2. Ontology Class- and Data Model Entity-hierarchy
  3. Ontology Object Properties are Data Model Associative Entities

FIB-DM 15 fundamental Business Concepts


The first 3 articles explain considerations and design decisions for transforming the Financial Industry Business Ontology into a data model.

The 15 Fundamental Concepts article supplements the Semantics for Finance Users class.

It also explains how the Object Management Group’s Commons Ontology Library has replaced fundamental concepts (= ultimate supertypes) in the open-source version.

The articles are available on the FIB-DM website. Menu: Resources→Articles. The library folder makes it easy to download them all.