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Ontology and Knowledge Graph in the Age of AI and Agents
As organizations accelerate investments in AI, semantic data models, advanced analytics, and agentic transformation, lots of jargon gets thrown around, and this sometimes results in confusion about how data driven systems work. In the realm of semantic layers, one of … Continue reading
Why AI Projects Fail Without a Common Language: The Case for Taxonomy Standards
As organizations rush to adopt AI solutions and technologies, the necessary structures to support such solutions are often overlooked. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 63% of organizations will not have the right data management practices for AI. This gap shows … Continue reading
How to Scale a Semantic Layer with Interoperable Ontologies
A Semantic Layer is the framework for connecting data from multiple sources and formats in both a human- and machine-readable way that enables organizations to understand the meaning of their data, extract contextualized information, and discover new insights. A key … Continue reading
A Practical Guide to a Taxonomy Remodel
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Taxonomies vs. Ontologies for Enabling AI-Readiness
AI solutions need to be grounded in an organization’s context. It is difficult to reliably distill context from the entirety of an organization’s knowledge assets, including facts, documents, datasets, and other structured records. Without a specific directive on what matters … Continue reading
Taxonomies in the Age of AI: Evolving Your Strategy
The Topic Taxonomy: An Outdated Artifact? As knowledge workers continue to navigate constantly evolving priorities in developing effective AI solutions that complement organizational priorities, semantics have maintained their value—but not without shifts that deserve our attention. Broadly speaking, one reliable … Continue reading
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
Optimizing Historical Knowledge Retrieval: Extracting Knowledge by Making Connections
The Challenge From POC to Production A Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) faced significant challenges with low-quality or incomplete metadata for managing and cataloging scientific reports, hindering researchers’ ability to parse repositories and efficiently discover relevant content. As … 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