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How to Scale a Semantic Layer with Interoperable Ontologies
A Semantic Layer is the framework for connecting data from multiple sources and formats in both a human- and machine-readable way that enables organizations to understand the meaning of their data, extract contextualized information, and discover new insights. A key … Continue reading
A Practical Guide to a Taxonomy Remodel
For anyone who has undertaken any form of home remodel or loves to watch television shows featuring them, the general phases of a home renovation are familiar: visualizing the target state of the remodeled home, carrying out structural work, demolition, … Continue reading
The Semantic Exchange Webinar: Taxonomies vs Ontologies For AI-Readiness
Join Enterprise Knowledge for another episode of The Semantic Exchange, a fast-paced webinar series designed for direct Q&A with our Semantic Design thought leaders. This 30-minute session invites you to engage on the topic of Kathleen Gollner’s recent blog, Taxonomies … Continue reading
Taxonomies vs. Ontologies for Enabling AI-Readiness
AI solutions need to be grounded in an organization’s context. It is difficult to reliably distill context from the entirety of an organization’s knowledge assets, including facts, documents, datasets, and other structured records. Without a specific directive on what matters … Continue reading
The Semantic Exchange Webinar: Taxonomies in the Age of AI
Join Enterprise Knowledge for another episode of The Semantic Exchange, a fast-paced webinar series designed for direct Q&A with our Semantic Design thought leaders. This 30-minute session invites you to engage with Bonnie Griffin’s blog, Taxonomies in the Age of … Continue reading
Taxonomies in the Age of AI: Evolving Your Strategy
The Topic Taxonomy: An Outdated Artifact? As knowledge workers continue to navigate constantly evolving priorities in developing effective AI solutions that complement organizational priorities, semantics have maintained their value—but not without shifts that deserve our attention. Broadly speaking, one reliable … Continue reading
Leveraging a Semantic Layer for Research Curation and Conversational Experiences
The Challenge A global philanthropic organization focused on health programs struggled to fully leverage knowledge from semi-structured and unstructured documents. Specifically, within a health-related funding program, researchers lacked access to key qualitative data from end-user surveys and transcripts. Consequently, they … Continue reading
Taxonomy Alignment for SDG Tagging
In the session “Utilizing Taxonomies to Meet UN SDG Obligations“ co-presented at KMWorld 2025 on November 17th, Enterprise Knowledge’s Ben Kass and ASHA’s Mike Cannon discuss how they structured taxonomies within an ongoing auto-tagging implementation to serve content management and … Continue reading
The Role of Product Taxonomies in the Age of AI
Product Taxonomies are Your Intellectual Property; Why they Deserve More than AI Slop “Good design is invisible,” a principle that applies as much to digital taxonomy design as it does to the design of physical objects and spaces. At their … Continue reading
Taxonomist Role in the New World of Generative AI
We have been at the forefront of implementing generative technologies to augment traditional taxonomy workflows offering new capabilities for content modeling, classification, and semantic enrichment. This raises an important question for practitioners: What are the implications of Generative AI for … Continue reading