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
EK Presenting at Data Summit Connect 2020
Enterprise Knowledge Chief Operating Officer Joe Hilger and Technical Analyst Sara Nash will be co-presenting at the upcoming Data Summit Connect. The premiere data management and analytics conference will be online via a series of video webinars running June 8th … Continue reading
Structuring Unstructured Content: The Power of Knowledge Graphs and Content Deconstruction
Unstructured content is ubiquitous in today’s business environment. In fact, the IDC estimates that 80% of the world’s data will be unstructured by 2025, with many organizations already at that volume. Every organization possesses libraries, shared drives, and content management … Continue reading
How to Optimize Search Relevance By Tweaking your Search Approach
In my previous blog, we looked at how important it is to shape the data in your search index to your needs. In this blog we will discuss the querying side of search. Let’s examine the most important part of … Continue reading
Webinar: Building a Connected Search Experience: Bringing KM and AI Together to Fuel Findability
Presented by Joe Hilger, COO, and Stephon Harris, Senior Developer, on Wednesday, May 13th. In this video, Hilger and Harris discuss how advanced search can leverage KM and AI in order to maximize an organization’s search capabilities and create user-centered, … 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
Keys to Successful Ontology Design
Ontologies can capture highly complex ideas and business logic, provide more intuitive ways to structure information, and can ultimately power new use cases, such as semantic search, recommendation engines, and AI. While many organizations aim to leverage an ontology, they … 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