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Breaking it down: What is a Taxonomy?

James Midkiff . August 1, 2022 . Blog

A few years ago, I did an activity at a leadership retreat where each person slowly whittled down a list of words to a single word that most represented them. The word that I ended up with was “simplicity,” and … Continue reading

Investing in Development Standards: Code Review Best Practices (Part 5)

James Midkiff . July 14, 2021 . Blog

This blog series has covered multiple facets of development standards, from code quality and documentation to configuring virtual and containerized environments. In the previous blog, we discussed the benefits of code reviews to ensure your organization is delivering high quality, … Continue reading

Investing in Development Standards: Code Review Benefits (Part 4)

James Midkiff . July 7, 2021 . Blog

In this blog series, we have covered the benefits and recommendations for development standards at your organization as well as the code quality and processes that can enable your team to perform at a higher standard. Code reviews are a … Continue reading

Investing in Development Standards: Processes (Part 3)

James Midkiff . June 30, 2021 . Blog

As I mentioned earlier in this blog series, there are a huge number of development tools and frameworks available and each seems to have their own benefits and use cases. As part of your development standards, you may select a … Continue reading

Investing in Development Standards: Code Quality (Part 2)

James Midkiff . June 23, 2021 . Blog

As I recently discovered, adding code quality standards to established codebases is a great way to get into tussles with other team members — and it’s for good reason. Retrofitting standards to existing code can cause a significant amount of … Continue reading

Investing in Development Standards: The Benefits (Part 1)

James Midkiff . June 16, 2021 . Blog

I recently had the opportunity to kick off two development projects and onboard two new developers to the EK team. As I introduced the two developers to their projects, I quickly earned myself a new nickname, the Code Police, and … Continue reading

Five Steps to Implement Search with a Knowledge Graph

James Midkiff . April 19, 2021 . White Paper

Knowledge Graphs and Search are commonly linked together to support search use cases such as: Returning contextual relationships with search results; Displaying relevant topics in a knowledge panel; or Powering an expert finder. These advanced use cases enable an organization … Continue reading

Why am I Mr. SPARQL?

James Midkiff . October 9, 2020 . Blog

Over the past few years, I have gained a lot of experience working with graph databases, RDF, and SPARQL.¹ SPARQL can be tricky for both new and experienced users as it is not always obvious why a query is returning unexpected … Continue reading

What I’m Looking Forward to Learning at SEMANTiCS Austin 2020

James Midkiff . February 3, 2020 . Blog

SEMANTiCS Austin 2020 is the inaugural SEMANTiCS U.S. conference that will bring together knowledge graphs, ontologies, and Enterprise AI. These topics, among others, are of particular interest to my work in search and semantics, and I am excited to see … Continue reading

Exploring Enterprise Search and Knowledge Graphs

James Midkiff . December 17, 2019 . Blog

The ability to search across various systems is a growing need with many of our clients. Content is created by different teams, in different systems within an organization and a broad array of consumers of said content require the ability … Continue reading