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. […]
Design Thinking Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. I seriously believe, and I also know from professional experiences that Design Thinking is the secret sauce for creating high quality Data Models. This sounds contra intuitive, so we will have to do some debunking: ”Design Thinking – isn’t that for designing good looking products, like watches, […]
Industries Dive into Schema.Org Extensions and Semantic Web Technologies
The schema.org Global Semantic Vocabulary expands its reach through means including hosted/reviewed and external extensions. The former is managed and published as part of the schema.org project, while the latter live elsewhere in the Semantic Web, typically managed by third parties with their own processes and collaboration mechanisms. Examples of extensions in various stages of […]
State of the Art of Data Modeling?
Click to learn more about video blogger Thomas Frisendal. When I googled “state of the art” “data modelling” (European spelling), I got: An Overview of State-of-the-Art Data Modelling – Events – ACSE – The An Overview of State-of-the-Art Data Modelling Data Modelling: Introduction and State of the Art – Springer Type Systems: Introduction and State of […]
NTENT Solves Ambiguity with Enhanced Semantic Ranking
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Today, NTENT announced a breakthrough in its quest to transform information discovery with the advancement of its Enhanced Semantic Ranking and Knowledge Base technologies. The adjustments and improvements to these core capabilities allow NTENT to more efficiently decipher user intent, making it faster and easier for people […]
Fujitsu’s Human-Centric AI Helps Enable Faster, Improved Clinical Decision-Making
by Angela Guess A new press release out of the company reports, “Fujitsu has unveiled a new healthcare solution designed to improve clinical decision-making, following a successful field trial with San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid. The solution has been developed on the back of the company’s in-depth research into applying advanced data analytics for […]
Semantic Technology, Data Governance, and Compliance
by Angela Guess Marty Loughlin recently wrote in Datanami, “Data governance has emerged to the forefront of financial services ever since this vertical became inundated with increasing and evolving regulations, penalties, and regulatory entities at the end of the last decade. Stringent compliance requirements not only mandate that organizations provide accountability for data, but traceability, […]
Schema.org Semantics Vocabulary Expands with the Help of FIBO
Schema.org and the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) are teaming up to bring more semantics technologies to a greater audience. Enhancements to the core of the proposed Release Candidate 3.0 of the Google-, Microsoft-, Yahoo- and Yandex-sponsored community activity to create a shared vocabulary for marking up web pages will include contributions from the business […]
Applying Graph Databases and Semantic Technologies to Big Data
by Angela Guess Jans Aasman recently wrote in Information Management, “Many aspects of data management—particularly concerning big data—hinge upon the utility of graph databases. When deployed with additional semantic technologies such as ontologies, taxonomies and vocabularies, there are few analytic feats an RDF graph cannot achieve. In most instances, end users are largely unaware of […]
Software Semantic Evolution: Part 3
Learn more about Yefim (Jeff) Zhuk. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4. Microservices, RAML, DataSense by MuleSoft, and the Next Step In the beginning was the Word… One of the earliest known civilizations was Sumer, in the Uru region of the Middle East (now Southern Iraq), about five thousand years ago. […]