About us

Puffin Semantics aims to provide high quality, accessible tooling that supports making data Findable, Available, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR, go-fair.org). Puffin Semantics started out of a frustration with the quality of tooling that is aimed at facilitating conformity to information standards, be it internal to an organization or international.

We started in the utility sector, a domain rife with information standards, like the W3 recommendations in the linked data space or utility specific standards like IEC-CIM. However, in practice, those data models do not get used, because typically, the knowledge required to properly implement them correctly in different technologies, is rare to come by. So instead of reusing standardized data definitions, each data engineer, business intelligence analyst or data scientist comes up with their own definitions. This typically results in software that does not integrate: that doesn’t speak each others language. Whereas Newton could ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ most of our data scientist have to reinvent the wheel for every new application.

We believe data is worth nothing if it’s meaning isn’t clear to those who need to work with it, whether it is developers, business analysts or domain experts. That is why we put semantics front and center in the products we make.