Blog Archives
The Semantic Exchange: Why Your Taxonomy Needs SKOS Webinar
Enterprise Knowledge is pleased to introduce a new webinar series, The Semantic Exchange. We’re kicking off a five part series where we invite fellow practitioners to tune in and hear more about work we’ve published from the authors themselves. In … Continue reading
Semantic Layer Maturity Framework Series: Taxonomy
Taxonomy is foundational to the Semantic Layer. A taxonomy establishes the essential semantic building blocks upon which everything else is built, starting by standardizing naming conventions and ensuring consistent terminology. From there, taxonomy concepts are enriched with additional context, such … Continue reading
The Role of Taxonomy in Labeled Property Graphs (LPGs) & Graph Analytics
Taxonomies play a critical role in deriving meaningful insights from data by providing structured classifications that help organize complex information. While their use is well-established in frameworks like the Resource Description Framework (RDF), their integration with Labeled Property Graphs (LPGs) … Continue reading
Enhancing Taxonomy Management Through Knowledge Intelligence
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
AI & Taxonomy: the Good and the Bad
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
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
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
Enterprise AI Architecture Series: How to Extract Knowledge from Unstructured Content (Part 2)
Our CEO, Zach Wahl, recently noted in his annual KM trends blog for 2025 that Knowledge Management (KM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are really two sides of the same coin, detailing this idea further in his seminal blog introducing the … Continue reading
Knowledge Cast – Ahren Lehnert at Nike
Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Ahren Lehnert, Principal Taxonomist at Nike. In this conversation, Zach and Ahren discuss the future of taxonomy and artificial intelligence (AI), emphasizing both the augmentation of traditional roles and growth to include new … Continue reading
Metadata Within the Semantic Layer
As a standardized framework for connecting organizational assets, a Semantic Layer captures organizational knowledge and domain meaning to support connecting and coordinating assets across systems and repositories. Metadata, as one component of a Semantic Layer approach, is foundational. Whether you … Continue reading