The Knowledge Representation Corner: Procedural vs. Declarative Part 2 –...
Click here to learn more about author Adam Pease. In Part 1 I discussed the difference between procedural and declarative languages, and mentioned the confusion that can come from thinking that Turing...
View ArticleBanking on FIBO: Financial Institutions Turn to Semantic Standard
What is a Semantic Bank? One thing is for sure: The Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) developed by the EDM Council, which semantically defines core financial industry concepts and...
View ArticleCognonto Takes On Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence. That’s the direction taken by startup Cognonto, co-founded by Michael Bergman, a man whose history in the AI, Machine Learning, Semantic technologies, Internet...
View ArticleData Cataloging vs. Data Modeling: Reporting from EDW2017
The Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference in Atlanta in the beginning of April was one of the best I have attended in recent years. At least 50 sessions for a guy like me interested in modeling. I...
View ArticleIndustries 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleWhat is Ontology?
Ontology is 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...
View ArticleTaxonomy 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...
View ArticleOnboarding 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...
View ArticleOntology Announces Strategic Cooperation with BDN for Blockchain Application...
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...
View ArticleWorkday Delivers Machine Learning-Powered Skills Cloud to Unlock Workforce...
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...
View ArticleKBpedia 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...
View ArticleSemantic 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...
View ArticleKnowledge Graphs, Ontologies, and AI
This past fall, all aspects of the computable knowledge structure KBpedia – its upper ontology (KKO), full knowledge graph, mappings to major leading knowledge bases, and 70 logical concept groupings...
View ArticleGraph Database vs. Document Database: Different Levels of Abstraction
“Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are...
View ArticleGraph 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...
View ArticleCase Study: Semantic Web Ontologies and Geoscience Collaboration Helps the...
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...
View ArticleData Ontology is the Future, and I Can’t Wait
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. When the inventor of the World Wide Web says a new technology is gonna be big, I’m inclined to listen. In this now decade-old TED Talk, W3C Director Sir Tim...
View ArticleData Modeling on the Other Side of the Quagmire
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. At the DATAVERSITY® Graphorum Conference in Chicago in October I attended Dave McComb’s tutorial on “Data-Centric: Models and Architectures”. At the...
View ArticleWhat is a Knowledge Graph?
A knowledge graph, which can be considered a type of ontology, depicts “knowledge in terms of entities and their relationships,” according to GitHub. An example of a knowledge graph is shown below....
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