Leveraging Ontologies and Biomedical Standards for Data Governance, Process Optimization, and Product Findability
The Challenge A global veterinary company that provides a comprehensive suite of products, software, and services for veterinary professionals needed an effective taxonomy and ontology design to provide easy and consistent ways to find and use data in order to … Continue reading
Metadata Use Case: IMDB in Amazon Prime Video
Have you been catching up on your favorite TV shows lately? If so, while watching a series or movie from home, it is very likely you might have asked yourself the following questions: “The narrator’s voice sounds familiar, who is … Continue reading
Top 10 EK Blogs of the Decade
In the past decade, EK employees have published over 230 pieces of thought leadership, addressing everything from best practices and success stories, to key insights and lessons learned. Sharing our knowledge and expertise is one of our guiding principles at … Continue reading
What is the Roadmap to Enterprise AI?
Artificial Intelligence technologies allow organizations to streamline processes, optimize logistics, drive engagement, and enhance predictability as the organizations themselves become more agile, experimental, and adaptable. To demystify the process of incorporating AI capabilities into your own enterprise, we broke it … Continue reading
Four Key Components of Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
Enterprise knowledge graphs are an incredibly valuable tool for relating your structured and unstructured information, allowing you to easily obtain actionable insights from large amounts of information across your enterprise. An enterprise knowledge graph is also an important foundation for … Continue reading
How to Build a Knowledge Graph in Four Steps: The Roadmap From Metadata to AI
The scale and speed at which data and information are being generated today makes it challenging for organizations to effectively capture valuable insights from massive amounts of information and diverse sources. We rely on Google, Amazon, Alexa, and other chatbots … Continue reading
How to Distinguish Between Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Metadata Fields
When designing an enterprise taxonomy, the number of possible metadata fields that can be used to describe content can be overwhelming. Depending on the type of content, the size of the organization, and the breadth of that organization’s functions, the … Continue reading
How Faceted Navigation Works
What does the term ‘faceted navigation’ call to mind? For search-savvy individuals, it’s a search experience similar to that which you would find on Amazon. Facets primarily allow an individual to quickly sort through large amounts of information to locate … Continue reading
Choosing the Best Metadata Fields For Your Taxonomy
Introduction As a big music fan I am always on the hunt for new and better ways to organize my personal music library. Some days it makes the most sense for me to make a playlist for a specific activity, … Continue reading
How to Create a Content Type
In earlier blogs from this series, we described in simple terms what a content type means through a sweet analogy with cakes (see “What is a Content Type?”) and talked about the benefits of creating a content type (see “Three … Continue reading