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
AI & Taxonomy: the Good and the Bad
The recent popularity of new machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications has disrupted a great deal of traditional data and knowledge management understanding and tooling. At EK, we have worked with a number of clients who have questions–how … Continue reading
The Minimum Requirements To Consider Something a Semantic Layer
Semantic Layers are an important design framework for connecting information across an organization in preparation for Enterprise AI and Knowledge Intelligence. But with every new technology and framework, interest in utilizing the technological advance outpaces experience in effective implementation. As … Continue reading
Governing a Federated Data Model
Kjerish, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Data proliferates. Whether you are a small team or a multinational enterprise, information grows at an accelerated rate over time. As that data proliferates, you can run into issues of interoperability, duplication, and … Continue reading
How a Knowledge Graph Can Accelerate Data Mesh Transformation
Despite a variety of powerful technical solutions designed to centrally manage enterprise data, organizations are still running into the same stubborn data issues. Bottlenecks in data registration, lack of ownership, inflexible models, out of date schemas and streams, and quality … Continue reading
Top 5 Tips for Managing and Versioning an Ontology
Sometimes, clients who come to EK confident in their ontology development capabilities find themselves wrongfooted when it comes to creating an ontology management plan. This is partly a result of documentation – there are a wide variety of resources on … Continue reading
Trimming an Untamed Taxonomy
When your taxonomy has overgrown your path towards usability, it’s time to do some gardening. Congratulations: you have a taxonomy! You’ve gone through the work of gathering user feedback, developing a design, validating the design, and you’ve come out the … Continue reading