Heather Hedden, Author at Enterprise Knowledge

Taxonomy and Information Architecture for the Semantic Layer

Heather Hedden June 12, 2024 . Blog

There is a growing interest in implementing a semantic layer as part of a knowledge management strategy as organizations seek to contextualize and connect their business data and information in meaningful ways. A semantic layer is more than a collection … Continue reading

Enterprise Knowledge Graphs: The Importance of Semantics

Heather Hedden May 23, 2024 . Presentation

Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented “Enterprise Knowledge Graphs: The Importance of Semantics” on May 9, 2024, at the annual Data Summit in Boston. In her presentation, Hedden describes the components of an enterprise knowledge graph and provides … Continue reading

The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers

Heather Hedden May 2, 2024 . Presentation

Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented “The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers” at a webinar hosted by Progress Semaphore on April 16, 2024. Taxonomies at their core enable effective tagging and retrieval of content, and … Continue reading

Generative AI for Taxonomy Creation

Heather Hedden April 8, 2024 . Blog

There is a growing awareness and appreciation for taxonomies as information and knowledge management tools. Taxonomies – structured sets of terms tagged to content – support search, information discovery, browse navigation, news alerts and feeds, content recommendation and personalization, content … Continue reading

Overview of Taxonomies and Artificial Intelligence

Heather Hedden March 8, 2024 . Presentation

Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented “An Overview of Taxonomies and AI” on January 30th, 2024, in the inaugural webinar of the “Artificial Intelligence webinar series: The promise and the perils,” hosted by the Knowledge & Information Management … Continue reading

Extending Taxonomies to Ontologies

Heather Hedden February 20, 2024 . White Paper

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