Noam Chomsky, the philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and father of modern linguistics, has authored over 1,000 articles and 130 books. The 89-year-old intellectual also has written films and appeared in many documentaries. The substantial work he has done in linguistics and politics has earned him the title of “most cited living author.” Now […]
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 […]
Achieving Data Governance 2.0 with Knowledge Graph Technology
When you use Google, pick a movie from Netflix, talk to Siri or Alexa, or look for your nephew on Facebook, you’re benefiting from Knowledge Graph technology. DATAVERSITY® recently caught up with the three co-founders of TopQuadrant, CEO Irene Polikoff, CTO Ralph Hodgson, and CMO Robert Coyne, to get their perspective on Knowledge Graph technology […]
New Book: Demystifying OWL for the Enterprise
Morgan & Claypool Publishers have announced the release of Demystifying OWL for the Enterprise, a new book by Michael Uschold. According to the publishers, “After a slow incubation period of nearly 15 years, a large and growing number of organizations now have one or more projects using the Semantic Web stack of technologies. The Web […]
Semantic Web and Semantic Technology Trends in 2018
There have been some exciting developments of late in the Semantic Web and Technology space. Semantic Technology trends in 2018 will continue to advance many of the trends discussed in 2017 and build upon a number of new changes just entering the marketplace. This fall, in fact, the Elsevier 2017 Semantic Web challenge focused on […]
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 […]
BackOffice Associates: Guiding the Data Stewardship Journey for Large Companies
When a large Fortune 1000 company merges and acquires many smaller companies, and undergoes a Digital Transformation, Data Governance and Data Stewardship become more complex. The well-known and established business may need to integrate up to 200 different ERP applications from a variety of systems across different divisions that span the globe. Take this context […]
Smart and Scalable: The Next Generation Data Lakes
Data Lakes have come under some scrutiny in recent times, with complaints that businesses wind up storing anything and everything in them, yet aren’t realizing the value they expected from all the data they’ve piled up. Sam Chance, who’s recently taken on a Managing Director role in Cambridge Semantics Solution Engineering organization, has a take […]
Cambridge Semantics Shatters Previous Record of Loading and Querying ‘Trillion Triples’ by 100X
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Cambridge Semantics, the leading provider of graph-based Smart Data management and exploratory analytic solutions, today announced that its Anzo Graph Query Engine™ completed a load and query of one trillion triples as a Google Cloud Partner on the Google Cloud Platform in just under two hours, […]
2017 Trends for Semantic Web and Semantic Technologies
Are you hearing the term “Semantic Web” as often as you may have in the past? There’s no denying the importance of the technologies, standards, concepts, and collaborations that define the Semantic Web proper and all that is affiliated with it or grown out of it. These range from a dependency on RDF/OWL triple stores […]