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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
Enterprise AI Architecture Series: How to Inject Business Context into Structured Data using a Semantic Layer (Part 3)
Introduction AI has attracted significant attention in recent years, prompting me to explore enterprise AI architectures through a multi-part blog series this year. Part 1 of this series introduced the key technical components required for implementing an enterprise AI architecture. … Continue reading
Entitlements Within a Semantic Layer Framework: Benefits of Determining User Roles Within a Data Governance Framework
The importance of data governance grows as the number of users with permission to access, create, or edit content and data within organizational ecosystems faces cumulative upkeep. An organization may have a plan for data governance and may have software … Continue reading
What is Semantics and Why Does it Matter?
This white paper will unpack what semantics is, and walk through the benefits of a semantic approach to your organization’s data across search, usability, and standardization. As a knowledge and information management consultancy, EK works closely with clients to help … Continue reading
Incorporating Unified Entitlements in a Knowledge Portal
Recently, we have had a great deal of success developing a certain breed of application for our customers—Knowledge Portals. These knowledge-centric applications holistically connect an organization’s information—its data, content, people and knowledge—from disparate source systems. These portals provide a “single … Continue reading
How a Semantic Layer Transforms Engineering Research Industry Challenges
To drive future innovation, research organizations increasingly seek to develop advanced platforms that enhance the findability and connectivity of their knowledge, data, and content–empowering more efficient and impactful R&D efforts. However, many face challenges due to decentralized information systems, where … 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