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Making KM Clickable: The Rapidly Changing State of Knowledge Management
Zach Wahl, CEO and Co-founder of Enterprise Knowledge, presented on June 15, 2022 for the Bangalore K-Community Zoom Meetup. The talk focused on “The Digital Edge: Tech Roadmaps and Impacts on KM.” The framework discussed includes an overview of the … Continue reading
What Software Engineering Can Teach Knowledge Engineers about Version Control
Information models like taxonomies and ontologies are rarely built independently, and they are never static. At EK, knowledge engineers partner with clients to build these models through an iterative process of design, validation, and implementation. The models that come out … Continue reading
How to Explain Ontologies to Any Audience
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can better explain complex, semantic concepts like ontologies, knowledge graphs, and data fabrics to others in an approachable, easy-to-understand manner. I’ve been in any number of situations where I’ve struggled to … Continue reading
Designing Your Taxonomy to Fit Your Use Case: Advanced Taxonomy Use Cases (Part 2)
In my previous blog, I wrote about building a taxonomy for two foundational use cases – findability and navigation – that we commonly design for at EK. This blog will focus on two advanced, yet still common, taxonomy use cases. … Continue reading
EK’s Year in Review – 2021
It has become an annual tradition for me to report on EK’s performance and milestones to close each year. This tradition has become as much for me and the team at EK as it is for the broader KM community … Continue reading
Top 5 EK Blogs of 2021
This year, EK employees published over sixty new pieces of thought leadership covering topics that range from taxonomy design to integrated change management to AI. Below are the top five most viewed blogs and white papers written by EK employees … Continue reading
Trimming an Untamed Taxonomy
When your taxonomy has overgrown your path towards usability, it’s time to do some gardening. Congratulations: you have a taxonomy! You’ve gone through the work of gathering user feedback, developing a design, validating the design, and you’ve come out the … Continue reading
Knowledge Cast Product Spotlight – Andreas Blumauer of Semantic Web Company
In this episode of Product Spotlight, EK COO Joe Hilger speaks with Andreas Blumauer of Semantic Web Company. Andreas has been CEO and managing partner of Semantic Web Company (SWC) for more than 15 years. At SWC, he is responsible … Continue reading
Designing Your Taxonomy to Fit Your Use Case: Common Taxonomy Use Cases (Part 1)
At EK, we’ve designed countless taxonomies for our clients over the years. These taxonomies are reflective of each individual client’s content and needs, and provide direct business value. One of the keys to our success is that before we even … Continue reading
How Do I Implement A Taxonomy?
Congrats, you have a taxonomy! It is a strategic milestone for many organizations whether the taxonomy is instantiated in a taxonomy management system of some type, or, as we much more commonly see, stored in a spreadsheet. Regardless, your next … Continue reading