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A Global Knowledge and Information Management Solution
The EK Difference Because this large, global organization was seeking to successfully complete an initiative that traversed multiple departments, the effort required alignment and support from department leads, staff, and executives. EK leveraged our proven facilitation and prioritization approaches tailored … Continue reading
Leveraging Ontologies and Biomedical Standards for Data Governance, Process Optimization, and Product Findability
The Challenge A global veterinary company that provides a comprehensive suite of products, software, and services for veterinary professionals needed an effective taxonomy and ontology design to provide easy and consistent ways to find and use data in order to … Continue reading
Building a Semantic Enterprise Architecture
The EK Difference Using a hybrid analysis approach, consisting of a combination of user-driven research (facilitated workshops, focus groups, and interviews) and technology-driven research (in-depth analysis of the existing technology), EK captured the current Enterprise Architecture using our Semantic Enterprise … Continue reading
Natural Language Search on Big Data
The Solution By extracting key entities or metadata fields, such as topic, place, person, customer, plant, etc. from their sample files and data sets, Enterprise Knowledge (EK) developed an ontology to describe the key questions business users were interested in … Continue reading
Project and Expert Finder
The Challenge A federally funded engineering research center has an extensive “project library” where technical documents, certifications, and reports related to various engineering projects are stored. Many of these documents are often scanned versions of handwritten notes or files and, … Continue reading
Semantic Data Portal/Data Catalog
As part of their efforts to improve overall data quality, data usage, and coordination, the Chief Data Officer of a federal agency was seeking to analyze current data management practices and identify ways to improve the Office’s existing processes. One of the most pressing challenges identified was that data scientists and economists were finding it difficult to make efficient use of siloed data sources in order to easily access, interpret, and track data and its history. Each researcher had anecdotal knowledge of what data resources were available, and they were often recreating similar data manipulations and research that other analysts had done previously in their own departments. The agency needed a more efficient and centralized way to capture key contextual information to drive the use, discovery, and reuse of data. The solution had to enhance and modernize their metadata management practices through improved access and visibility across agency data resources, while maintaining the appropriate security measures. Continue reading
A Course Recommendation System – Based on a Knowledge Graph
The Challenge A healthcare workforce solutions provider wanted to increase engagement and learning outcomes across their learning platform as part of an initiative to grow interactive and adaptive learning capabilities using cutting edge knowledge management and natural language processing techniques. … Continue reading