Why Your Taxonomy Needs SKOS
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
Women’s Health Foundation – Semantic Classification POC
A humanitarian foundation focusing on women’s health faced a complex problem: determining the highest impact decision points in contraception adoption for specific markets and demographics. Two strategic objectives drove the initiative—first, understanding the multifaceted factors (from product attributes to social influences) that guide women’s contraceptive choices, and second, identifying actionable insights from disparate data sources. The key challenge was integrating internal survey response data with internal investment documents to answer nuanced competency questions such as, “What are the most frequently cited factors when considering a contraceptive method?” and “Which factors most strongly influence adoption or rejection?” This required a system that could not only ingest and organize heterogeneous data but also enable executives to visualize and act upon insights derived from complex cross-document analyses. Continue reading
Humanitarian Foundation – SemanticRAG POC
A humanitarian foundation needed to demonstrate the ability of its Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation (GRAG) system to answer complex, cross-source questions. In particular, the task was to evaluate the impact of foundation investments on strategic goals by synthesizing information from publicly available domain data, internal investment documents, and internal investment data. The challenge laid in …. Continue reading
Enhancing Retail Performance with Semantic Layer As an Enabler for Data and Analytics Teams
In the fast-paced retail sector, organizations need to be able to quickly view store performance analytics in order to make crucial decisions. A leading global retail chain faced significant delays of up to 5-6 weeks when attempting to retrieve essential store performance metrics and create reports for executive leadership. This bottleneck was largely due to … Continue reading
Butterfly Effect: Taxonomy and Ontology as AI Catalysts in Enterprise Learning
Organizations understand the importance of leveraging AI to stay competitive in the evolving technological landscape, but do not always know how to get started. In their talk at Taxonomy Boot Camp 2024 in Washington, D.C., Tatiana Baquero Cakici and Sara … Continue reading
A Semantic Layer to Enable Risk Management at a Multinational Bank
Enterprise Knowledge is working with a multinational bank to enable their risk-assessing processes by using semantics and connected data. Heavily regulated financial services firms require comprehensive and complex risk management. This requires employees to thoroughly account for risk and report it in detail to regulators. Continue reading
A Semantic Layer Approach to Enterprise Knowledge Management and Information Findability
Within an organization or enterprise, multiple knowledge organization systems tend to be siloed and used for different purposes in different systems (the website, the intranet, technical documentation publishing, the product catalog, customer support articles, training materials, etc.). If this disparate … Continue reading
Enterprise Knowledge Graphs: The Importance of Semantics
Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented “Enterprise Knowledge Graphs: The Importance of Semantics” on May 9, 2024, at the annual Data Summit in Boston. In her presentation, Hedden describes the components of an enterprise knowledge graph and provides … Continue reading
Optimizing Historical Knowledge Retrieval: Standardizing Metadata for Enhanced Research Access
Enterprise Knowledge (EK) helps a federal research and development center standardize their descriptive metadata to support content findability. Continue reading
The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers
Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented “The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers” at a webinar hosted by Progress Semaphore on April 16, 2024. Taxonomies at their core enable effective tagging and retrieval of content, and … Continue reading