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
A Healthier Knowledge Platform: Taxonomy Principles to Support Knowledge Management at a Not-for-Profit
Would your organization benefit from “healthier” knowledge management practices? Learn more about how the YMCA of the USA improved the health of key internal tools. During their presentation, “Taxonomy Principles to Support Knowledge Management at a Not-for-Profit” at KMWorld’s Taxonomy … Continue reading
How to Design Taxonomies that Reflect Organizational Differences, For Humans and AI
One of the key steps to prepare your content and data for AI is developing taxonomies that identify, organize, and define the terms used in the organization in order to better structure and contextualize knowledge assets for use in AI … Continue reading
How Taxonomies and Ontologies Enable Explainable AI
Taxonomy and ontology models are essential to unlocking the value of knowledge assets. They provide the structure needed to connect fragmented information across an organization, enabling explainable AI. As part of a broader Knowledge Intelligence (KI) strategy, these models help … Continue reading
The Semantic Exchange Webinar Series Recap
Enterprise Knowledge recently completed the first round of our new webinar series The Semantic Exchange, which offers participants an opportunity to engage in Q&A with EK’s Semantic Design thought leaders. Participants were able to engage with EK’s experts on topics … Continue reading
Semantic Layer for Content Discovery, Personalization, and AI Readiness
A professional association needed to improve their members’ content experiences. With tens of thousands of content assets published across 50 different websites and 5 disparate content management systems (CMSes), they struggled to coordinate a content strategy and improve content discovery. They could not keep up with the demands of managing content … Continue reading
Navigating System Limitations for Taxonomy Implementation
When navigating the transition from designing a taxonomy to implementing it in the intended systems, it can be common to encounter a gap between ideal implementation (hierarchical tagging without system-imposed limits, controlled by tight role-based user permissions), and reality. 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