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Top Semantic Layer Use Cases and Applications (with Real World Case Studies)

Lulit Tesfaye . May 1, 2025 . Blog

Today, most enterprises are managing multiple content and data systems or repositories, often with overlapping capabilities such as content authoring, document management, or data management (typically averaging three or more). This leads to fragmentation and data silos, creating significant inefficiencies. … Continue reading

Enhancing Taxonomy Management Through Knowledge Intelligence

Maryam Nozari . April 30, 2025 . Blog

In today’s data-driven world, managing taxonomies has become increasingly complex, requiring a balance between precision and usability. The Knowledge Intelligence (KI) framework – a strategic integration of human expertise, AI capabilities, and organizational knowledge assets – offers a transformative approach … Continue reading

Why Your Taxonomy Needs SKOS

Bonnie Griffin . April 14, 2025 . Infographic

Taxonomies are a valuable tool for capturing semantic context, but their full value can only be realized when they’re represented in a standardized format. This infographic introduces SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) and demonstrates how your organization’s taxonomies can reach their full potential. Continue reading

Enterprise AI Architecture Series: How to Inject Business Context into Structured Data using a Semantic Layer (Part 3)

Urmi Majumder . March 26, 2025 . Blog

Introduction AI has attracted significant attention in recent years, prompting me to explore enterprise AI architectures through a multi-part blog series this year. Part 1 of this series introduced the key technical components required for implementing an enterprise AI architecture. … Continue reading

What is Semantics and Why Does it Matter?

Ben Kass . March 20, 2025 . White Paper

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

How a Semantic Layer Transforms Engineering Research Industry Challenges

Juliana Simon . March 5, 2025 . Blog

To drive future innovation, research organizations increasingly seek to develop advanced platforms that enhance the findability and connectivity of their knowledge, data, and content–empowering more efficient and impactful R&D efforts. However, many face challenges due to decentralized information systems, where … Continue reading

AI & Taxonomy: the Good and the Bad

Ben Kass . March 4, 2025 . Blog

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

Extracting Knowledge from Documents: Enabling Semantic Search for Pharmaceutical Research and Development

EK Team . March 3, 2025 . Case Study

The Challenge A major pharmaceutical research and development company faced difficulty creating regulatory reports and files based on years of drug experimentation data. Their regulatory intelligence teams and drug development chemists spent dozens of hours searching through hundreds of thousands … Continue reading

The Minimum Requirements To Consider Something a Semantic Layer

Ben Kass . February 28, 2025 . Blog

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

The Resource Description Framework (RDF)

EK Team . February 24, 2025 . White Paper

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 … Continue reading