A new press release states, “Concentric today announced the availability of a new approach to the most significant security challenge facing the enterprise today – business-critical unstructured data, stored on-premises or in the cloud, that is impossible to identify and protect manually. Enterprise customers using Concentric have already found millions of unprotected or inappropriately shared […]
Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Knowledge Graphs: Better Together
At the heart of things, an enterprise knowledge graph supports decision and process augmentation based on linked data. These models of knowledge domains are created by subject matter experts with the help of machine learning algorithms. They live as virtual data layers on top of existing databases or data sets to link both structured and […]
AllegroGraph 6.5 Marks Multi-model Semantic Graph and Document Database
A recent press release reports, “Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today announced AllegroGraph v6.5 , the first multi-model semantic graph database to support the ingestion of JSON and JSON-LD documents, comma separated value (CSV) files and RDF data. AllegroGraph 6.5 […]
The Business View of Data and Data Quality The Six Dimensions of Semantic Quality – Part 2
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. This is the second and final part of this series on Data Quality and Semantic Quality. You can access the first part here: The Business View of Data and Data Quality: The Six Dimensions of Semantic Quality – Part One Forming High-Quality Business Communications Rather than retroactively […]
The Business View of Data and Data Quality: The Six Dimensions of Semantic Quality – Part One
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. Business has a fundamental problem with Data Quality. In some places it’s merely painful, in others it’s near catastrophic. Why is the problem so pervasive? Why does it never seem to get fixed? Perhaps we’ve been thinking about the problem wrong. Time for a fresh look. The […]
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 […]
Linked Data Plays a Role in Efforts to End IoT Fragmentation
The Internet of Things (IoT) is on the fast track, with IHS Markit recently forecasting that the number of connected IOT devices this year will reach 20 billion. In its report, IoT Trend Watch 2017, however, the research firm also points to technology fragmentation in the area, which will require efforts including further alignment of […]
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 […]
The Knowledge Representation Corner: Procedural vs. Declarative
Click to learn more about author Adam Pease. Programmers that are new to ontology may be prone to think that any tool or language can be used to represent terms, definitions, and facts about the world. After all, as programmers, we’re used to solving problems in code and know that whether we use Perl, C++, Java, […]
A Data Extraction System for Unstructured Documents
Click here to learn more about George Roth. Let’s assume that we have a system that extracts information from unstructured documents. There are two types of unstructured documents: Type A: There are unstructured documents with known content (e.g. legal contract document, SEC filings, etc.). An essential property of these is that can be classified based […]