{"id":20913,"date":"2024-05-23T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/?p=20913"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:13:34","slug":"enterprise-knowledge-graphs-the-importance-of-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/enterprise-knowledge-graphs-the-importance-of-semantics\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Knowledge Graphs: The Importance of Semantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented \u201cEnterprise Knowledge Graphs: The Importance of Semantics\u201d on <strong>May 9, 2024<\/strong>, at the annual <strong>Data Summit<\/strong> in Boston.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her presentation, Hedden describes the components of an enterprise knowledge graph and provides further insight into the semantic layer \u2013 or knowledge model \u2013 component, which includes an ontology and controlled vocabularies, such as taxonomies, for controlled metadata. While data experts tend to focus on the graph database components (RDF triple store or a label property graph), Hedden emphasizes they should not overlook the importance of the semantic layer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explore the presentation to learn:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The definition and benefits of an enterprise knowledge graph<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The components of a knowledge graph<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fundamentals of graph databases<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The basics features of taxonomies and ontologies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The role of taxonomies and ontologies in knowledge graphs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How an enterprise knowledge graph is built<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented \u201cEnterprise Knowledge Graphs: The Importance of Semantics\u201d on May 9, 2024, at the annual Data Summit in Boston.\u00a0 In her presentation, Hedden describes the components of an enterprise knowledge graph and provides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/enterprise-knowledge-graphs-the-importance-of-semantics\/\"  class=\"with-arrow\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[512],"tags":[428,536,391,236,202],"article-type":[101],"solution":[1119,1275],"ppma_author":[1391],"class_list":["post-20913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knowledge-graphs-data-modeling","tag-enterprise-knowledge-graph","tag-graph","tag-graph-database","tag-ontology","tag-taxonomy","article-type-presentation","solution-knowledge-graph","solution-semantic-layer"],"acf":{"slide_deck_embed":"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/HZr24nTs0gUh9K?startSlide=1"},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","slideshow":"","slideshow-2x":"","banner":"","home-large":"","home-medium":"","home-small":"","gform-image-choice-sm":"","gform-image-choice-md":"","gform-image-choice-lg":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented \u201cEnterprise Knowledge Graphs: The Importance of Semantics\u201d on May 9, 2024, at the annual Data Summit in Boston.\u00a0 In her presentation, Hedden describes the components of an enterprise knowledge graph and provides further insight into the semantic layer \u2013 or knowledge model \u2013 component, which includes an ontology and controlled vocabularies, such as taxonomies, for controlled metadata. 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