Knowledge Graph Insights

Ole Olesen-Bagneux In every enterprise, says Ole Olesen-Bagneux, the information you need to understand your organization's metadata is already there. It just needs to be discovered and documented. Ole's Meta Grid can be as simple as a shared, curated collection of documents, diagrams, and data but might also be expressed as a knowledge graph. Ole appreciates "North Star" architectures like micros...

Andrea Volpini Your organization's brand is what people say about you after you've left the room. It's the memories you create that determine how people think about you later. Andrea Volpini says that the same dynamic applies in marketing to AI systems. Modern brand managers, he argues, need to understand how both human and machine memory work and then use that knowledge to create digital memories...

Jacobus Geluk The arrival of AI agents creates urgency around the need to guide and govern them. Drawing on his 15-year history in building reliable AI solutions for banks and other enterprises, Jacobus Geluk sees a standards-based data-product marketplace as the key to creating the thriving data economy that will enable AI agents to succeed at scale. Jacobus launched the effort to create the DPRO...

Rebecca Schneider Skills that Rebecca Schneider learned in library science school - taxonomy, ontology, and semantic modeling - have only become more valuable with the arrival of AI technologies like LLMs and the growing interest in knowledge graphs. Two things have stayed constant across her library and enterprise content strategy work: organizational rigor and the need to always focus on people...

Ashleigh Faith With her 15-year history in the knowledge graph industry and her popular YouTube channel, Ashleigh Faith has informed and inspired a generation of graph practitioners and enthusiasts. She's an expert on semantic modeling, knowledge graph construction, and AI architectures and talks about those concepts in ways that resonate both with her colleagues and with newcomers to the field. W...

Panos Alexopoulos Any knowledge graph or other semantic artifact must be modeled before it's built. Panos Alexopoulos has been building semantic models since 2006. In 2020, O'Reilly published his book on the subject, "Semantic Modeling for Data." The book covers the craft of semantic data modeling, the pitfalls practitioners are likely to encounter, and the dilemmas they'll need to overcome. We ta...

Mike Pool Mike Pool sees irony in the fact that semantic-technology practitioners struggle to use the word "semantics" in ways that meaningfully advance conversations about their knowlege-representation work. In a recent LinkedIn post, Mike even proposed a moratorium on the use of the word. We talked about: his multi-decade career in knowledge representation and ontology practice his opinion that...

Margaret Warren As a 10-year-old photographer, Margaret Warren would jot down on the back of each printed photo metadata about who took the picture, who was in it, and where it was taken. Her interest in image metadata continued into her adult life, culminating the creation of ImageSnippets, a service that lets anyone add linked open data descriptions to their images. We talked about: her work to...

Jans Aasman Hybrid AI architectures get more complex every day. For Jans Aasman, large language models and generative AI are just the newest additions to his toolkit. Jans has been building advanced hybrid AI systems for more than 15 years, using knowledge graphs, symbolic logic, and machine learning - and now LLMs and gen AI - to build advanced AI systems for Fortune 500 companies. We talked abou...

Juan Sequeda Knowledge graph technology has been around for decades. The benefits so far accruing to only a few big enterprises and tech companies. Juan Sequeda sees large language models as a critical enabler for the broader adoption of KGs. With their capacity to accelerate the acquisition and use of valuable business knowledge, LLMs offer a path to a better return on your enterprise's investmen...

Jesús Barrasa Over his 20-year career, Jesús Barrasa has spanned the worlds of object-oriented property graphs and assertion-based knowledge graphs. He knows as much about these two foundational technologies as anyone and offers pragmatic advice to help architects and engineers decide which approach will work best for their needs. We talked about: his role at Neo4j in which he helps companies ado...

Yaakov Belch Yaakov Belch is an AI researcher with strong ideas about the role of humans in AI systems. Instead of "human in the loop," he argues, we should put "humans in control." Yaakov's research looks at business contracts and how knowledge graphs and AI systems can both capture their meaning more accurately and help managers make better business decisions. We talked about: his assertion that...

Michael Iantosca Where content, knowledge management, and AI converge, you'll find Michael Iantosca. As many in the AI world flock to probabilistic models like LLMs, Michael takes a deterministic approach to content management and knowledge engineering, using ontologies and knowledge graphs to ground content in a concrete facts. This approach embodies his insight that content and the models that d...

Fran Alexander When Fran Alexander looks at the current AI landscape she sees some interesting parallels between the Alien vs Predator science fiction franchise and the way RAG and other architectures are combining LLMs and knowledge graphs. We talked about: the analogy she draws between the Alien and Predator science fiction franchise with LLMs and knowledge graphs how the human-esque (if malevol...

Andreas Blumauer Every enterprise nowadays is awash in data, content, and knowledge, the understanding of which is all too often available only in employees' heads. Forward-thinking businesses are moving to knowledge graphs to capture that tacit knowledge so that they can better understand and use it. Andreas Blumauer shows how those graphs work best when they're accompanied by a domain knowledge...

Jessica Talisman Jessica Talisman is a seasoned information architect with decades of experience across a variety of domains. She's done a lot of education and outreach around her semantic and and information architecture practices. One of the most important lessons she's learned is the crucial role of standards like the W3C SKOS model to bring structure and semantics to information and knowledge...

Tony Seale With ten years of semantic data experience and an endless stream of insightful posts on LinkedIn, Tony Seale has earned the moniker "The Knowledge Graph Guy." Tony says there's precious little time for enterprises to prepare their data with the interconnectedness and semantic meaning that it needs to be ready for the coming wave of more powerful AI technology. We talked about: his 10-ye...

Paco Nathan Graph RAG is all the rage right now in the AI world. Paco Nathan is uniquely positioned to help the industry understand and contextualize this new technology. Paco currently leads a knowledge graph practice at an AI startup, and he has been immersed in the AI community for more than 40 years. His broad and deep understanding of the tech and business terrain, along with his "graph think...

Katariina Kari For the past eight years, Katariina Kari has built knowledge graph teams at giant e-commerce companies like IKEA and Zalando. This practical, real-world experience puts her in an elite group of ontology and knowledge graph experts. Knowledge graphs offer unique benefits to e-commerce merchants. From better product recommendations to more useful search results, the semantic capabilit...

Vera Brozzoni When you manage millions of digital assets, as the BBC does, you need robust metadata practices to organize and discover them. Vera Brozzoni is a metadata manager at the BBC who focuses on classical music. She combines here academic background in music, philosophy, and the humanities with a rigorous metadata mind to help BBC systems - and ultimately viewers and listeners - discover a...

Teodora Petkova Teodora Petkova is a scholar and content marketer whose PhD dissertation explored semantic technologies and dialogical theory and how they apply in the field of digital marketing communication. She thoughtfully combines her rigorous academic thinking with pragmatic data- and knowledge-management practices in her content-marketing work. She's currently building a knowledge graph wit...

Dean Allemang Dean Allemang literally wrote the book on the semantic web. "Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist" is now in its third edition. In the book, Dean and his co-authors, James Hendler and Fabien Gandon, show how to apply web standards to build a meaningful web of global, connected knowledge. More recently, Dean has conducted research with his colleagues at data.world that shows how us...

Alan Morrison After 20-plus years of industry analysis, Alan Morrison has developed a keen sense for how knowledge graphs can help enterprises. Even though he has focused on advanced tech and emerging IT practices and is deeply immersed and invested in current tech developments, much of his advice for enterprises looking to develop their data maturity involves pragmatic baby steps and basic mindse...

Ellie Young Ellie Young effortlessly connects the human and technical elements that go into ontologies and knowledge graph building. Ellie came to the world of knowledge graphs with backgrounds in both literature and sustainability. "If the world wasn't on fire," she says, " I would probably be writing novels." That sense of urgency drives her work at Common Action, a platform she is creating to a...

George Anadiotis Every profession has its connectors, sharers, and community organizers. In the knowledge graph world, George Anadiotis fills all of these roles. Through his industry analysis and reporting, his conference organizing, and his writing and podcasting, George connects ideas and people across the semantic-tech landscape. We talked about: his work at Linked Data Orchestration and as a c...