At Bloomberg, Tara Raafat applies the best #semantic practices and embraces the latest #AI technology to build #knowledgeGraphs, but engaging the right stakeholders and building the right kinds of teams is arguably the key to her success. knowledgegraphinsights.com/tara-raafat/

I'm hosting a conversation about hybrid AI next week. Truly smart systems need it all - good data, neural learning, and symbolic knowledge - and these folks know how to deliver it. www.digital-science.com/events/what-... #knowledgeGraphs #LLMs #enterpriseData

📣 We’re proud to share a new publication! “Sentiment analysis of research attention: the Altmetric proof of concept” 🔗 Read it here: https://ow.ly/keyk50XrTRs 👏 Congratulations to our Digital Science collegues for contributing to this important conversation in the research community.

At Netflix, @alex.bertails.org and his team have adopted #RDF to build a Unified Data Architecture (UDA) and a #domainModeling language, Upper, that let them quickly and efficiently share complex #data with their internal engineering customers. knowledgegraphinsights.com/alex-bertails/

Super-fun to chat with @torreybird.bsky.social about her childhood family dinner-table conversations about semantics, her work aligning stakeholders on language and meaning in big digital projects, and how to close "semantic gaps" in complex organizations. knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/

What's the German word for that specific feeling of satisfaction you get when you find an inexpensive paint pen that writes REALLY clearly and nicely on a strange (but cool) coverstock that your fresh Field Notes uses, when regular ink or graphite doesn't show up very well at all?

So good to see @velitchkov.eu at Semantics 2025. Great presentation on applying data centricity and rules to gnarly procurement problems.

Casey Hart connects professional #ontology practice and the academic discipline of #philosophy and shows how concepts like epistemology, metaphysics, and rhetoric are relevant to both knowledge graphs and AI technology in general. knowledgegraphinsights.com/casey-hart/

This is terrible news, not just for fly research, Drosophila is a key model organism that helps us understand shared biological pathways and the systems that underpin many human diseases 💔💔💔

#AI adoption is growing in #LifeSciences, and a human-in-the-loop ( #HITL ) approach is an essential collaborator. HITL ensures accurate outcomes, eliminates bias, and allows humans to provide critical oversight. Read more: blog.metaphacts.com/human-in-the... #HumanInTheLoop #Research #Healthcare

@cmungall.bsky.social‬ tackles complex #knowledgeManagement challenges in the life sciences with well-honed collaborative methods and AI-augmented computational tooling, streamlining #ontology creation and #knowledgeGraph building. knowledgegraphinsights.com/chris-mungall/

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Leveraging MCP and LLM-powered natural-language interfaces, Emeka Okoye has created RDF Explorer, a Model Context Protocol #MCP service that lets any developer surf the semantic web without having to learn #RDF. knowledgegraphinsights.com/emeka-okoye/

Tom Plasterer was instrumental in the creation of the now-widely-adopted #FAIRdata principle, the idea - driven by the introduction of the #semanticWeb - that data should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. knowledgegraphinsights.com/tom-plasterer/

stop letting venture capitalists set the agenda.

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it. Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments Freelancers/contractors: get in comments Everyone else: boosts appreciated

Fact: It is my birthday. Fact: I run a free+ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic. Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!

One of the lessons of working with lots of different clients in lots of different businesses is that “building useful abstractions” is a very valuable skill, but one that absolutely cannot replace real operational knowledge of the things being abstracted

Drawing on her background in the #humanities and her pragmatic approach to business, Mara Inglezakis Owens has developed #knowledgeArchitecture practices that delight system users and demonstrate value to key stakeholders. And she's fun to talk with :) knowledgegraphinsights.com/mara-owens/

Manny Silva has created Docs as Tests, a system that integrates well-developed #techComms practices and a collection of engineering tooling, to help #technicalWriters streamline and constantly improve their software #documentation and #QA work. ellessmedia.com/csi/manny-si...

Frank van Harmelen's #AI research looks at how technical systems can best support #people. While some in the AI world seek to replace #humans with machines, he focuses on #hybridIntelligence that supports and collaborates with #people. knowledgegraphinsights.com/frank-van-ha...

No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Had a wonderful conversation with Larry, talking about Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata, knowledge, and language barriers. Larry, thank you for having me over!

As the founder of Wikidata, @vrandecic.bsky.social has thought a lot about how to better connect the world's knowledge. His current project, Abstract Wikipedia, aims to let anyone on the planet contribute to the world's collective knowledge. knowledgegraphinsights.com/denny-vrande...

⏰ The clock is ticking! ⏰ This is your last chance to submit to the ISWC Research, Resource, and In-use Tracks!

Charles Ivie on the "failure" of the #semanticWeb: Now that more than half of the world's web pages share #RDF annotations and #knowledgeGraphs are widely adopted across enterprises, let's call it what it is - a rousing success. knowledgegraphinsights.com/charles-ivie/

Andrea Gioia helps his clients build reusable #dataProducts to capitalize on the value in their #enterprise data assets. Built around collaboratively developed #ontologies, Andrea's products have evolved into something that might also be called a #knowledgeProduct.

At Autogram, @eaton.fyi has developed a #contentObservability framework to address the complexity of modern digital architectures, evaluating the composition, quality, health, and effectiveness of content programs to help enterprises measure their #contentROI. ellessmedia.com/csi/jeff-eat...

Dave McComb introduced the #data-centric architecture approach to break out of the application-centric quagmire that traps so many businesses, treating enterprise #data like the precious business asset that it is. knowledgegraphinsights.com/dave-mccomb/

Trying to get my head around this cowboy-lassoing-butterflies art in this NS train. Dutch cowboys? Butterfly lassoing? Did I miss a meme memo?

#DecoupledDays Submit your session proposal for a 25- or 50-minute session on the evolving web landscape. We will see you at The City College of New York, August 13-14, 2025. Don't miss the deadline—submit by April 30th. We look forward to hearing from you! #CallForPapers

Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire and his business partner developed their "value map" framework to structure and organize #productMarketing information. It helps align internal stakeholders - and gets the right content to both business and technical users of the product. ellessmedia.com/csi/jam/

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. [Charles] Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage...)

The info you need to understand your organization's #metadata is already there. You just need to discover and document it. @olesenbagneux.bsky.social 's Meta Grid offers a surprisingly manageable way to accomplish this seemingly daunting task.

This is all true. Trust me; I'm a #taxonomist

As @lilyray.nyc recently pointed out, LLMs' memory is shaped (among other factors) by social media conversations. Thinking about marketing strategies through a neuroscience lens is no longer sci-fi—it’s becoming a practical framework for all of us! Thanks, @larry.bsky.social, for the interview!

Your #brand is what people say about you after you've left the room. The memories you create determine how people think about you. @cyberandy.bsky.social says modern brand managers need to create digital #memories that align with how #AI systems understand the world.

Perfect!

After 15 years of building reliable #AI solutions, Jacobus Geluk sees a standards-based #dataProduct marketplace as key to #AIagent success. His #useCaseTree spec complements his earlier work on #DPROD, describing the demand side of the #dataEconomy. knowledgegraphinsights.com/jacobus-geluk/

Skills that Rebecca Schneider learned in library science school - #taxonomy, #ontology, and #semanticModeling - have only become more valuable with the arrival of AI technologies like LLMs and the growing interest in #knowledgeGraphs. knowledgegraphinsights.com/rebecca-schn...

I was an early supporter and hope to be booking a flight to Philly at Halloween to attend the premiere. Will your pledge bring this worthy project to life - no, wait - undead-ness?

In his new book, "Designing Content Authoring Experiences," @heyrocker.com shows content-system creators how to design better interfaces, streamline workflows, and otherwise improve the lives of content authors and managers. Better #contentAuthoring experiences FTW!

With her 15-year history in the #knowledgeGraph industry and her YouTube channel, Ashleigh Faith has informed and inspired a generation of graph practitioners and enthusiasts. Insights galore, from #semanticModeling to #AIarchitecture and beyond. knowledgegraphinsights.com/ashleigh-fai...

Wikifunctions - Wikipedia's newest sister project Wikifunctions is a collaboratively maintained library of functions that anyone can use and contribute to. This talk will introduce the project. Where: Newspeak.House, London When: 10 March @ 7pm. lu.ma/4rtmw5ch

Congrats @heyrocker.com on the release of Designing Content Authoring Experiences! authoringexperience.com

Panos Alexopoulos' book "Semantic Modeling for Data" is a comprehensive but accessible intro to this crucial semantic practice, grounded in decades of practice but appropriate for new modelers, too. Great conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too. knowledgegraphinsights.com/panos-alexop...

Mike Pool sees irony in the fact that semantic-technology practitioners struggle to use the word #semantics in ways that meaningfully advance conversations about their knowlege-representation work. Hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. knowledgegraphinsights.com/mike-pool/

As a 10-year-old photographer, @mmw09.bsky.social would jot down on the back of each print metadata about the image. Her interest in image metadata has continued into her adult life with the creation of the ImageSnippets linked-data service. knowledgegraphinsights.com/margaret-war...

Sarah Johnson asks, "If a digital experience is a conversation with a user, how can you have that conversation if you don't know what the words are?" For the answer, see her new book, "Content-first Design." ellessmedia.com/csi/sarah-jo... #contentFirst #contentDesign #UX #design

Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...