In the geoscience community, collaboration is critical. Different disciplines — engineering geologists, geochemists, hydrologists — need to share their findings with each other to address big questions about the earth. Take climate change. What factors contribute to it? What impact will it have? Oceanographers who study the dynamics of oceans do their work individually […]
Graph Databases in the Spotlight
Graph databases are distinguished by relationships. Users can query, for example, the connections that relate a customer to an account that he or she owns, or how many degrees of separation exist between Kevin Bacon and Audrey Hepburn. Ontologies are a key underpinning, providing a data model to describe things in a database. Metadata and […]
Semantic Web and Semantic Technology Trends in 2019
What to expect of Semantic Web and other Semantic Technologies in 2019? Quite a bit. DATAVERSITY® engaged with leaders in the space to get their thoughts on how Semantic Technologies will have an impact on multiple areas. As DATAVERSITY discussed last year, Knowledge Graphs have gotten a lot of attention as a backbone for Machine […]
KBpedia is Now Open Source
According to a recent press release, “The editors of KBpedia, a computable knowledge structure that combines seven major public knowledge bases, announced they were releasing the entire structure as open source. The complete structure includes KBpedia’s upper ontology (KKO), full knowledge graph, mappings to major leading knowledge bases, and 70 logical concept groupings called typologies. […]
Workday Delivers Machine Learning-Powered Skills Cloud to Unlock Workforce Potential
According to a recent press release, “Workday, Inc., a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced the general availability of its skills cloud, a universal skills ontology that helps organizations cleanse, understand, and relate job skills data. Built into the underlying framework of Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), the skills […]
Ontology Announces Strategic Cooperation with BDN for Blockchain Application in Business
A recent press release reports, “Today Ontology, a new high-performance public multi-chain project and a distributed trust collaboration platform, officially announced its strategic cooperation with BDN (Business Data Network), a business data network based on blockchain technology. Both parties will focus on production logistics, new retail, offline business, and other fields, and co-build a distributed […]
Onboarding to Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
Enterprise Knowledge Graph vendors are working hard to find their place in the heart of businesses, helping them do more with and get more out of their mountains of data. Recently, for example, Stardog has adopted its leading Knowledge Graph platform to be “FIBO-aware,” mapping to the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) semantic standards out-of-the-box. […]
Taxonomy vs Ontology: Machine Learning Breakthroughs
The difference between Taxonomy vs Ontology is a topic that often perplexes even the most seasoned data professionals, Data Scientists, Data Analysts, and many a technology writer. Yet, taxonomies and ontologies form the underpinnings of how machines learn and understand, a group of technologies that are quickly improving in perception and cognition. Cognitive Computing technologies […]
What Is Ontology?
Ontology is often considered a subset of taxonomy. An ontology: Is a domain; contains more information about the behavior of entities and the relationships between them; includes formal names, definitions and attributes of entities; and, may be constructed using OWL, the Ontology Web Language from the W3C. Other Definitions of Ontology Include: “A data model […]
What Is Taxonomy?
Taxonomy represents the formal structure of classes or types of objects within a domain. It organizes knowledge by using a controlled vocabulary to make it easier to find related information. A taxonomy must: Follow a hierarchic format and provides names for each object in relation to other objects. May also capture the membership properties of […]