knowledge architecture | knowledge graphs | ontology modeling | structured content | information architecture | practice democratization | community building
25 years ago, Jim Hendler and his colleagues web inventor @timbl and @ora, an early expert on #AIagents, set out their #semanticWeb vision in an article for Scientific American magazine.
Semantic web implementations have since blossomed, deployed into every large enterprise on the planet and adding meaning to the web by appearing in the majority of pages on the internet.
A very edifying conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too.
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Brad Bolliger came to knowledge graphs via enterprise system design and data analytics. That background informs their pragmatic approach to the use of semantic technology in systems that facilitate information exchange across government agencies.
I really appreciate Brad's thoughtfulness and ability to connect systems architectures to #knowledgeGraphs and #controlledVocabulary management. Hope you enjoy the conversation, too.
At Bloomberg, Tara Raafat applies her extensive #ontology, #knowledgeGraph, and management expertise to create a semantic and technical foundation for their mission-critical data, information, and knowledge.
Tara of course employs the best semantic practices and embraces the latest technology, but her knack for engaging the right stakeholders and building the right kinds of teams is arguably what distinguishes her work.
I'm hosting a conversation about hybrid AI next week. Truly smart systems need it all - good #enterpriseData, neural learning and #LLMs, and symbolic #knowledgeGraphs - and these folks know how to deliver it.
https://www.digital-science.com/events/what-genai-does-well-and-where-it-needs-an-ecosystem/
At Netflix, @bertails and his team have adopted #RDF to capture the meaning in their content in a consistent way and generate consistent representations of it for a variety of internal customers.
The keys to their system are a Unified Data Architecture (UDA) and a #domainModeling language, Upper, that let them quickly and efficiently share complex #data projections in the formats that their internal engineering customers need.
It's hard to imagine anything more fun and instructive than a conversation with Torrey Podmajersky. We covered a lot in this one - from her childhood dinner-table conversations about semantics to her work aligning high-caliber stakeholders on language and meaning in complex digital projects. If you're looking to fill the "semantic gaps" in your org, listen in.
Substack is implementing their writer lock-in right now.
Writers, leave while you can.
#OntologyEngineering has its roots in the idea of ontology as defined by classical philosophers.
Casey Hart sees many other connections between professional #ontology practice and the academic discipline of #philosophy and shows how concepts like epistemology, metaphysics, and rhetoric are relevant to both knowledge graphs and AI technology in general.
A fun, edifying, and broad-ranging conversation. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Capturing knowledge in the #lifeSciences is a big job. The scope of the field extends from atoms up to planetary-scale ecosystems, and a wide variety of disciplines collaborate on the research.
@Cmungall and his colleagues at the Berkeley Lab tackle this #knowledgeManagement challenge with well-honed collaborative methods and AI-augmented computational tooling that streamlines #ontology creation and #knowledgeGraph building.
Semantic technologies permit powerful connections across #linkedData resources on the web. Until recently, developers had to learn the #RDF language to discover and use these resources.
Leveraging the new Model Context Protocol and LLM-powered natural-language interfaces, @Emekaokoye has created the RDF Explorer, an #MCP service that lets any developer surf the semantic web without having to learn its specialized language.
Tom Plasterer was instrumental in the creation of the #FAIRdata principle, the idea - driven by the introduction of the #semanticWeb - that data should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
From its origins in the semantic web community, scientific research, and the pharmaceutical industry, FAIR has since been widely adopted in academia, research, industry, and enterprises of all kinds.
Hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.
I need an AI agent which automatically mutes anyone who posts in social media about how all work in software will get displaced by AI agents.
Mara Inglezakis Owens brings a human-centered focus to her work as an #enterpriseArchitect at a major US airline.
Drawing on her background in the #humanities and her pragmatic approach to business, she has developed a practice that embodies both #digitalAnthropology and #productThinking.
The result is a #knowledgeArchitecture that works for its users and consistently demonstrates its value to key stakeholders.
Hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Addressing critical needs driven by the dynamic world of #techDocs, Manny Silva has created Docs as Tests, a system that integrates well-developed #techComms practices and a collection of engineering tooling to help #technicalWriters streamline and constantly improve their software #documentation and #QA work.
This was a fun chat with a deeply experienced Silicon Valley #content veteran. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.
Much of the conversation around AI lately is about #neuroSymbolic systems that combine neural-network tech like #LLMs and symbolic AI like #knowledgeGraphs.
Frank van Harmelen's puts his AI research in the larger context of how these technical systems can best support #people.
While some in the AI world seek to replace #humans with machines, Frank focuses on AI systems that collaborate with people to create #hybridIntelligence.
As the founder of @wikidata, @vrandecic has thought a lot about how to better connect the world's knowledge.
His current project is Abstract Wikipedia, an initiative that aims to let anyone anywhere on the planet contribute to, and benefit from, the world's collective knowledge, in their native language.
It's an ambitious goal, but Denny is confident that Wikimedia community can make it happen.
Since the #semanticWeb was introduced almost 25 years ago, many have dismissed it as a failure.
Charles Ivie shows that the #RDF standard and the #knowledgeRepresentation technology built on it have actually been quite successful.
More than half of the world's web pages now share semantic annotations, and the widespread adoption of knowledge graphs in enterprises and media companies is only growing as #enterpriseAI architectures mature.
In recent years, #dataProducts have emerged as a solution to the enterprise problem of siloed data and knowledge.
Andrea Gioia helps his clients build composable, reusable data products so they can better capitalize on the value in their #enterprise data assets.
Built around collaboratively developed #ontologies, Andrea's data products have evolved into something that might also be called a #knowledgeProduct.
