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Navigating the Retirement Cliff: Challenges and Strategies for Knowledge Capture and Succession Planning
As organizations prepare for workforce retirements, knowledge management should be a key element of any effective succession planning strategy, ensuring a culture of ongoing learning and stability. This piece explores the challenges organizations face in capturing and transferring critical knowledge, … Continue reading
Cutting Through the Noise: An Introduction to RDF & LPG Graphs
Graph is good. From capturing business understanding to support standardization and data analytics to informing more accurate LLM results through Graph-RAG, knowledge graphs are an important component of how modern businesses translate data and content into actionable knowledge and information. … Continue reading
What is Semantics and Why Does it Matter?
This white paper will unpack what semantics is, and walk through the benefits of a semantic approach to your organization’s data across search, usability, and standardization. As a knowledge and information management consultancy, EK works closely with clients to help … Continue reading
The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Simply defined, a knowledge graph is a network of entities, their attributes, and how they’re related to one another. While these networks can be captured and stored in a variety of formats, most implementations leverage a graph based tool or database. However, within the world of graph databases, there are a variety of syntaxes or … Continue reading
Analyzing and Optimizing Content for the Semantic Layer
As I wrote in my previous post, Adding Context to Content in the Semantic Layer, the organizational challenge of effectively generating, managing, and distributing content can be addressed by integrating content into a semantic layer. The semantic layer enriches the … Continue reading
Synergizing Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models (LLMs): A Path to Semantically Enhanced Intelligence
Why do Large Language Models (LLMs) sometimes produce unexpected or inaccurate results, often referred to as ‘hallucinations’? What challenges do organizations face when attempting to align the capabilities of LLMs with their specific business contexts? These pressing questions underscore the … Continue reading
Extending Taxonomies to Ontologies
Sometimes the words “taxonomy” and “ontology” are used interchangeably, and while they are closely related, they are not the same thing. They are both considered kinds of knowledge organization systems to support information and knowledge management. Yet there is often … Continue reading
Make Content Management Systems Work for You: Designing Your CMS to Deliver KM Solutions
The most common use case our clients report for implementing their Content Management System (CMS) is “we needed a place to store our documents.” When they come to Enterprise Knowledge (EK), they’ve begun to realize that storing content is one … Continue reading
Resolving Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
Organizations that are getting started with the Resource Description Framework (RDF) often ask “Why do all of the entity identifiers look like URLs? Are they supposed to actually go somewhere?” This can be difficult to answer without taking the time to … Continue reading
Jumpstarting Your Semantic Solution Design with UML Diagrams
Where do I start? Whether it be a taxonomy, an ontology, or a knowledge graph, this is a common question that we get from clients when they are beginning their scoping journey. We get it. It is difficult to define … Continue reading