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KGC Book Club reading the Knowledge Graph Cookbook
2021-11-08 - 2021-12-13 | online
5 online sessions | November 8 to December 13, 2021

Organized and produced by the team of the Knowledge Graph Conference the KGC Book Club brings readers and authors to one virtual table to discuss. Meet Andreas Blumauer, Helmut Nagy. Featuring Heather Hedden and Dean Allemang.
Please feel free to book the dates on your calendar. Sessions will be taking place between 11am-12pm Eastern Time.
SESSION 1: Intro, Book Overview, and a Case StudyNovember 8, 2021SESSION 2: Deep dive into selected chapters part 1November 22, 2021SESSION 3: Deep dive into selected chapters part 2November 29, 2021SESSION 4: Workshop on using Pool PartyDecember 6, 2021SESSION 5: Office hours for Pool PartyDecember 13, 2021

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Taxonomy Bootcamp London 2021
2021-11-10
We are platinum sponsors of the bite-sized Taxonomy Bootcamp London 2021, a half-day virtual session of topical case studies, tips, tools & techniques for taxonomists, knowledge & information professionals at all skill levels, from seasoned experts to those new to the field.
Our colleague Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at the Semantic Web Company, will moderate the session with Annette Corbett, Intranet and Knowledge Systems Manager from Taylor Wessing, UK.
The session named “User-centred taxonomies for kick ass search results” explores how we should incorporate the principles of content design – clarity, brevity and accessibility – when creating taxonomies and metadata to support the discoverability of content in user search.
Be part of it on Wednesday, November 10 from 15.00 to 15.45!

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KMWorld 2021
2021-11-15 - 2021-11-18 | online
Organized and produced by Information Today, Inc., KMWorld and its co-located events, Taxonomy Boot Camp, Enterprise Search & Discovery, and Text Analytics Forum, showcase organizations who have creative digital solutions for their future, are allowing experimental and risk-taking processes to inform their practices, have made solid progress in changing the culture of their enterprises, and know how to utilize AI and other technology in practical and useful ways to charge forward in their industries.

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A ‘Crawl, Walk, Run’ Approach To Graph-Based Recommender SystemsTuesday, November 16: 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Speaker:Andreas Blumauer, Founder & CEO, Semantic Web Company
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Enriching Knowledge Graphs - A Two-Way StreetWednesday, November 17: 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Speakers:Helmut Nagy, COO, Semantic Web Company
Joseph Hilger, COO, Enterprise Knowledge LLC
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Turning A Taxonomy Into An OntologyMonday, November 15: 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Speaker:Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company; Author, “The Accidental Taxonomist”
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Taxonomies and Text Analytics for Recommendation SystemsThursday, November 18: 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Speakers:Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company; Author, “The Accidental Taxonomist”
Phillip Peng, Director of Applied AI, Walden University
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Tridion Expert Summit (TXS) 2021
2021-12-08 - 2021-12-09
Are you a Tridion user? Check out our partner’s Annual Summit for all the news about Tridion Sites 9.6 and Tridion Docs 14SP4. We will surely announce there the incredible things that PoolParty has done within the Tridion platform. Stay tuned!
You’ll learn about:

Semantic AI capabilities that futureproof your content through the use of taxonomies and knowledge graphs
UI improvements that make authors and editors more productive
Continuing development of the solution’s connectors and architecture to meet business needs.

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WIAD22 - A Connected World
2022-03-05
Information architecture uncovers and creates new connections that we weren’t aware of before. It can inspire us to make new discoveries or reveal new relationships that may urge us to take constructive action, e.g. climate change, the global health crisis, or the supply chain disruption we have experienced during the pandemic. That is why the global theme for 2022 is “A connected world”
We are happy to be one of the sponsors of the international information architecture event World IA Day. With our support, World IA student interns will create a taxonomy to be used for offline manual tagging of assets (PDFs, videos, etc.) of past World IA Day conference presentations, of 10 years in multiple venues.

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NORDIC TechKomm 2022
2022-03-09 - 2022-03-10
Semantic Web Company is pleased to join its partner RWS at NORDIC TechKomm in Stockholm. This conference brings together international experts to discuss trends and current topics in the field of technical communication.

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Information Architecture Conference 2022
2022-04-18 - 2022-04-22 | online
The IA conference exists to promote discourse and learning about the intentional design of information environments. It is a gathering of practitioners from around the globe, who practice and teach Information Architecture and other design-related disciplines. Be the preeminent event for information architecture learning and discourse

The IA conference prides itself on provoking engaging conversations that take place between conference attendees.
The IA conference exposes practitioners to leading best-practices and the latest research.
The conference is committed to providing resources for practitioners at all stages of their career.

Revisiting Taxonomies: Topics in Taxonomy Design
by Heather Hedden, PoolParty TeamApril 18, 202211:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET
Creating a taxonomy is not difficult, but creating a good taxonomy that is ideally suited for its use can be more challenging, and requires training and/or experience. Even those experienced in creating taxonomies often face challenges with new taxonomy projects. (That’s what makes taxonomy creation always interesting.) Rather than a repeat of last year’s taxonomy workshop, this workshop includes some review of the fundamentals, but quickly moves on to a deeper discussion of specific taxonomy design issues. This intermediate-advanced workshop proposes best practices and guidance for making decisions, including determining:

How best to engage stakeholders
What kind of taxonomy structure to create
Whether to create one or more separate taxonomies for different users
Whether a given hierarchy should stand alone as its own taxonomy or be a top term within a larger taxonomy
Whether named entities should be narrower concepts to their category type or in a separate list
Whether and when it’s OK to not strictly follow hierarchical relationships standards
If customized semantic relationships (features of an ontology) should be included and how

Criteria to consider when reviewing an existing taxonomy for revision will also be presented. Finally, we will also look at examples of taxonomies and discuss how they can be improved.
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External Webinar: The Future of Intelligent Content Management, Semantic AI and Content Impact
2022-04-26 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna)
Ontotext Knowledge Graph Forum

Webinar hosted by Acrolinx | April 26, 2022

Disparate digital experiences (DX) are one of the biggest challenges businesses face today. Poorly thought out or siloed content can not only prevent enterprises from creating the best digital experiences for their customers, but can ultimately also lead a business to fail to reach its goals.
And even if amazing content is created, it’s incredibly hard to cut through the noise. In many instances it’s not about having more content generated, it’s about generating, managing, and distributing the right content for your audience. Combining a semantic content hub, strong content management, and an intelligent content impact platform can help you create an optimal content solution to drive your business objectives.
In this webinar, Jörg Schmidt (Senior Solutions Architect at RWS), Florian Bauer (Senior Solutions Architect at Semantic Web Company), and Daniel Nutburn (VP Global Partners and Alliances at Acrolinx) come together to discuss:

Why it’s important to make sure that your content isn’t only “healthy”, but all-around fit to create a great digital experience for your customers
How to create a roadmap to better content by improving the content supply chain through semantic AI capabilities
What it takes to build a semantic content hub, from centrally managed taxonomies and automated tagging all the way to semantic search

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Convex Tempe 2022
2022-05-02 - 2022-05-04
Meet Semantic Web Company’s CEO, Andreas Blumauer and Chief Solutions Officer, Florian Bauer in Tempe, Arizona. ConVEx Tempe is a highly interactive event that provides an opportunity to improve communication and collaboration across multiple departments and gives you a rare insider’s look at what is working (or not) for other teams.
Take a look at the presentations and sessions we are holding:
The Semantic Content HubAndreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company Inc.
The Semantic Content Hub: Ambiguity, language discrepancies, and lack of background information are just a few challenges that organizations face on a daily basis when trying to analyze their content and data. This talk will focus on various semantic modeling methods you can use to organize your unstructured data and the benefits of a comprehensive knowledge graph.
Automatically Categorize and Tag Content Using Semantic AIFlorian Bauer, Semantic Web Company Inc. and Chip Gettinger, RWS
While most reliable CMS have their own native tagging & search, these pale in comparison to the benefits you can get with automated tagging based on Semantic AI. This session will introduce the concept of auto classification (semantic concept tagging) which allows users to automatically categorize and tag content with rich descriptors that enable advanced findability of content in search engines and will showcase the successful implementation of Semantic AI in Tridion Docs.
Technology Test Kitchen – How Semantic AI Applications are BuiltAndreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company Inc.
This session will explain and demonstrate how to develop customized taxonomies based on text corpus analysis and standard vocabularies. It will be shown how these subsequently act as the core for the development of a comprehensive knowledge graph, and how this can link content and data across silos in a largely automated way using ontologies and graph-based tagging and mapping.

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The Knowledge Graph Conference 2022
2022-05-02 - 2022-05-06
The Knowledge Graph Conference bridges the gap between industry, which is increasingly recognizing the necessity of integrated data, and academia; where semantic technology has been developing for over twenty years.
Semantic Web Company has been a part of both industry and academia, and that is why we are very proud to be a part of this conference with two talks:
How a Knowledge Graph became the Focal Point of the Internal Knowledge Hub in a Software Company by Andreas Blumauer, CEO and Founder of the Semantic Web Company. Follow the link: https://www.knowledgegraph.tech/speakers/andreas-blumauer/
Taxonomy-Driven Ontology Design by Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company. Follow the link: https://www.knowledgegraph.tech/kgc-2022-tutorial-foundation-for-a-knowledge-graph-taxonomy-design-best-practices/
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Technical Communication Summit 2022
2022-05-15 - 2022-05-18
We will be at the expo hall of the Technical Communication Summit ready to introduce and demonstrate the PoolParty Semantic Suite, our award-winning AI platform based on semantic technologies and machine learning.
Semantic Web Company’s experts will be waiting for you at the PoolParty booth. You can also join us at the Innovation Hub.
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Tridion Success Summit
2022-05-18 12:00 - 18:00
Last year we formed a promising partnership with RWS to integrate PoolParty’s semantic AI into their intelligent content management solution called Tridion. This year we are a special guest at the Tridion Success Summit taking place on May 18th in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Gordon Hayden, associate director of solutions and strategic alliances for the Semantic Web Company, will speak on cognitive technology at the opening session. Along with RWS speakers Chad Weibel, VP Technology Sales, and Arpita Maity, Director of Product Marketing, they will cover the following topics:

Learn about latest development in Tridion: semantic AI – which represents a form of cognitive technology that makes content easier to manage and discover
Understand the power of Semantic AI – allowing content and data to be intertwined to surface hidden insights and make intelligent recommendations
Harness the power of a Content Supply Chain – uncovering areas of improvement, automation and innovation within your organization to support digital transformation

Be part of it on May 18, 2022, 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM CEST !
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Data Day Texas 2022
2022-06-13
We are sponsors of Data Day Texas 2022, the largest independent data-centric event held within 1000 miles of Texas.
Our colleague Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at the Semantic Web Company, will host two sessions.
“Introduction to Taxonomies for Data Scientists” tutorial (2+ hours)
This tutorial/workshop teaches the fundamentals and best practices for creating quality taxonomies, whether for the enterprise or for specific knowledge bases in any industry. Emphasis is on serving users rather than on theory. Topics to be covered include: the appropriateness of different kinds of knowledge organization systems (taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, etc.), standards, taxonomy concept creation and labeling, taxonomy relationship creation. The connection of taxonomies to ontologies and knowledge graphs will also be briefly discussed. There will be some interactive activities and hands-on exercises.
“The Future of Taxonomies – Linking Data to Knowledge” presentation
Taxonomies are no longer just for navigation or tagging documents. AI technologies, such as machine learning and NLP are now being used more in combination with taxonomies rather than merely in place of taxonomies. The results include applications of semantic search, personalization, recommendation, question-answering. Combining taxonomies with ontologies and linked instance data, supporting more powerful search and analytics across all kinds of data, structured and unstructured, and not just documents.
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Knowledge Management Reborn
2022-06-15 - 2022-06-16
Join Andreas Bluamuer, CEO of Semantic Web Company, as he presents on enterprise knowledge hubs during this two-day online event on modern knowledge management.
The conference is a mixture of thought-leading presentations and a few in-depth workshop presentations of ninety minute duration. At these sessions, topics are delved into in detail with hands-on opportunities. The conference, therefore, is the perfect platform to find out what is happening in the KM marketplace and also learn how to do it.
“The Knowledge Graph as a Central Element of Enterprise Knowledge Hubs” Presentation + Q&A Session (40 minutes)
Andreas Blumauer, CEO, Semantic Web Company Inc.
This presentation provides deep insights into the methodology used to develop the Semantic Web Company’s Knowledge Hub as a core element of a broader knowledge management strategy. It will cover methodologies, architecture, implemented governance models, and the added value from a business perspective.
Be part of it on June 15, 2022, 1:06 PM – 1:46 PM CST!
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Special Libraries Association - Annual Conference 2022
2022-07-14 - 2022-08-02
The SLA Annual Conference is the premier event for special librarians and information professionals who want to explore the latest challenges and trends in information, knowledge, and library management, refine their skills, connect with colleagues, and meet with leading product and service providers.
The PoolParty Team is represented by Heather Hedden with multiple pre-event and event sessions:
“From Taxonomy to Ontology” workshop
Description: While taxonomies support findability and information retrieval, ontologies support additional information retrieval methods, such as enabling complex queries, the exploration of different relationships, and quick access to associated data, and not just content. The Semantic Web standards, upon which modern information ontologies are built, have brought ontologies more closely aligned to taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems, than the merely computer science use of ontologies of the past. Integrating ontologies with taxonomies has many practical applications, which increasingly more companies and organizations are implementing. This educational session teaches the fundamental principles of ontologies for information science, including their definitions, types, standards, benefits, and uses, including knowledge graphs. It then instructs by ways of examples, how to extend a taxonomy to become an ontology, and then addresses issues in modeling and designing ontology classes, relations, and attributes, including best options and practices. Tools and technologies will also be addressed.Date: Thursday, July 14, 2:00 – 4:30 pm EDTFormat: Live online (Zoom)Organizer: SLA (Special Libraries Association) Continuing Education WorkshopsRegistration: $100 for SLA members, $150 for nonmembers
“Research Sources and Methodologies for Taxonomy Development”
Description: This session explores the information sources and research methodologies available to those who are starting out in taxonomy development. Information sources discussed include publicly available taxonomies and ontologies, and authoritative vs nonauthoritative sources. Research methodologies include card sorting, tree testing, actionable recommendations, content analysis, and the use of metrics in development and maintenance.Presented jointly with Marisa Hughes, Taxonomist at the American Psychological Association.Dates: starting July 30Format: Pre-recorded on-demandand
“Current Challenges and Advanced Taxonomy Topics” (Session C2)
Description: This panel will cover advanced taxonomy topics, including common and current challenges taxonomists are facing in their jobs along with various business and use case discussions. The panel will also have career discussions around what separates a senior position from a junior position and how to take the next step in your taxonomy career. Participants will obtain a grasp of common and current challenges faced by taxonomists in their roles, understand how to apply taxonomies in various advanced use cases, know more about career paths for advanced taxonomists.Date: Sunday, July 31, 4:30 – 5:30 pm EDTFormat: In-person (and hybrid)and
“Communities of Practice: Where Everybody Knows Your Name”(Session G4)
Description: Communities of Practice (CoPs) can be invaluable for connecting people with common goals and interests and facilitate the sharing of knowledge, resources, and more. Sharing best practices and knowledge can result in better ideas, innovation, and improved culture. Join this session to learn more about what a community of practice is, considerations for designing and growing your CoP, and strategies for success in maintaining a CoP.Date: Tuesday, August 2, 9:00 – 10:00 am EDTFormat: In-person (and hybrid)Organizer: SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual ConferenceLocation: Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, NC (and online)
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SEMANTiCS Vienna 2022
2022-09-13 - 2022-09-15
SEMANTiCS conference is the leading European conference on Semantic Technologies and AI. Researchers, industry experts and business leaders can develop a thorough understanding of trends and application scenarios in the fields of Machine Learning, Data Science, Linked Data and Natural Language Processing. The 17th edition will be hosted this year in Vienna.

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Knowledge Engineering of Taxonomies, Thesauri, and OntologiesThis tutorial teaches the fundamentals and best practices for creating quality taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies in any industry. Emphasis will be on serving users and use cases, rather than on theory. Topics to be covered include: different kinds of knowledge organization systems (taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, etc.), Semantic Web standards and other standards, linking knowledge organization systems, and enriching a taxonomy or thesaurus to become an ontology and a knowledge graph.
Date:Tuesday, September 13, 2022 – 09:45 to 13:00 (Tutorial at DBpedia Day)
Speaker:Heather Hedden, Data & Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company, USA, and author of The Accidental Taxonomist
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1st Workshop on Semantic AIWhile the individual aspects of semantic AI are being studied in their respective research communities a dedicated community focusing on their combination is yet to be established. The proposed workshop intends to contribute to this endeavor.
Date:Tuesday, September 13, 2022 – 14:00 to 17:30 (Workshop at DBpedia Day)
Speakers:Sebastian NEUMAIER, Data Intelligence Research Group, St. Polten University of Applied Sciences, AustriaMartin KALTENBÖCK, Semantic Web Company GmbH, AustriaMarta SABOU, Institute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
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Knowledge-based Recommendation Systems as a Cornerstone of the Digital WorkplaceThere is a great need for intelligent assistants in digital workplaces, and this more than ever, considering the increasing degree of decentralization in the post-Corona era.||||Recommendation systems are well known through their use in e-commerce platforms, but there they often achieve only too low a degree of precision and relevance, since they only follow the principle of “more of the same” based on “collaborative filtering”.
Date:Wednesday, September 14, 2022 – 10:30 to 12:00 (part of Recommender Systems Session)
Speaker:Andreas Blumauer, Founder & CEO, Semantic Web Company Inc.
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Applying Semantic AI platforms for Augmented IntelligenceIn recent years, augmented intelligence systems have advanced to provide humans with insights for knowledge discovery and decision making. Using a cooperative approach, these systems use powerful artificial intelligence (AI) to augment human cognitive activities. To do so, the AI capabilities have to complement human actions and therefore be explainable and controllable, while still providing implicit insights based on statistical models. Semantic Artificial Intelligence (Semantic AI), as the combination of machine learning and knowledge models, provides such a methodology.
Date:Wednesday, September 14, 2022 – 10:30 to 12:00 (part of Recommender Systems session)
Speakers:Robert David, CTO, Semantic Web CompanyPatrice Neff, Squirro AG
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The Global Knowledge Graph Market: State of Play and Upcoming TrendsThe Knowledge Graph market has developed into a highly dynamic area, especially in the last three years. No longer the ‘if’ or ‘why’, but the ‘how’ and ‘when exactly’ have become the central questions. Numerous application fields and industrial processes that already use graph technologies and plan to use them in the near future benefit from numerous technical developments.
Date:Wednesday, September 14, 2022 – 12:15 to 13:15 (Industry Panel)
Speaker:Andreas Blumauer, Founder & CEO, Semantic Web CompanyAtanas Kiryakov, CEO, OntotextPeter Crocker, Oxford Semantic TechnologiesJoseph Hilger, Chief Operating Officer, Enterprise Knowledge, LLCJans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc
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Multilingual Taxonomies and Knowledge Graphs as a Basis for Semantic AI ApplicationsThe domain of taxonomies and ontologies is to structure and enrich data. This makes the data searchable, findable, usable, and, moreover, the basis for AI applications. Terminology as the “counterpart” is responsible for ensuring that both data and metadata in the company are uniform and thus reusable and linkable. We show how taxonomy and terminology together make corporate data fit for the future, and how you can build taxonomies and knowledge graphs alongside classic terminologies. We give concrete examples of how these can be implemented in practice.
Date:Thursday, September 15, 2022 – 10:15 to 11:15 (part of LTI)
Speaker:Florian Bauer, Chief Solutions Officer, Semantic Web CompanyKlaus Fleischmann, Kaleidoscope
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Semi-automated Generation of Multilingual Domain-specific TaxonomiesThe use of and need for domain-specific taxonomies are rapidly augmenting, as part of the growing interest in multilingual knowledge management. However, creating a fine taxonomy for any domain or industry use case can require many months of intensive expert work. To face this challenge, we converge human created and curated data with automated processes and a Knowledge Graph tool. Namely, we apply cross-lingual lexicographic content from KD-Lexicala with Semantic Web Company’s PoolParty Semantic Suite to generate multilingual domain-specific taxonomies.
Date:Thursday, September 15, 2022 – 10:15 to 11:15 (part of LTI)
Speaker:Martin Kaltenböck, Member of the Executive Board, Semantic Web CompanyIlan Kernermann, K Dictionaries – Lexicala
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Knowledge Graph Forum 2022
2022-09-26 - 2022-09-29
Ontotext’s Knowledge Graph Forum is an annual event that addresses the entire spectrum of business applications of knowledge graphs and the technology partner ecosystem needed to deliver those.
This year’s format is a 4-day hybrid event with a strong focus on industry applications presented by leading practitioners.
Semantic Web Company Sales & Business Development Representative Lutz Krüger, Senior Data & Knowledge Engineer Jürgen Jakobitsch, and Jan Jelle Sijbesma, Data Architect at Fluor will talk about “Decentralized Semantic Data Query and Management” on the manufacturing track on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. CEST.
Additionally, Semantic Web Company CCO Sebastian Gabler will explain the current PoolParty Semantic Suite product roadmap on Monday, September 26, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. CEST.

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Tridion Success Summit, Stockholm
2022-10-04 10:30 - 2022-10-05 17:00 | Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Last year we formed a promising partnership with RWS to integrate PoolParty’s Semantic AI into their intelligent content management solution called Tridion. For the second time this year, we are a happy to be a guest at another installment of the Tridion Success Summit.
Taking place in Stockholm, Sweden, this autumn conference focuses on “Cognitive Technologies & Guided Experiences.” Semantic Web Company looks forward to presenting the Content Hub, and how it can be achieved with Semantic AI.
Leading this inititative is CEO Andreas Blumauer, with various talks across these two days.

Cognitive Technology, is it just the next buzzword, or is there real substance to it? Learn about the latest developments about Semantic AI and Tridion, and how semantics can be used to garner intelligent content recommendations.
Smart tagging with Tridion Docs Taxonomy Space – how does it work and what is it good for? See how semantic concept tagging can be used to match user intent to content in Tridion, enabling better search experiences.

Andreas will also be present at the “Talk to our Tridion Partners” event where attendees can join a plenary and interactive panel sessions about the technology. Tune in for more about the Semantic Content Hub.
Be part of it on October 4-5, 2022!
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Need something in the meantime? Check out our related webinar about content hubs that’s taking place on September 26. Tune in to see CEO Andreas Blumauer and Vice President/Principal Analyst at Forrester Noel Yuhanna talk about how knowledge graphs can be used to build robust hubs.

Bite-Sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2022
2022-10-12
Semantic Web Company Data and Knowledge Engineer Heather Hedden will participate at the bite-sized taxonomy boot camp on October 12 as a speaker. She will explain practical tips for setting up taxonomy governance.
Hier is a short description of her talk: Too often, taxonomy governance is the ‘poor relation’ of a taxonomy project, and yet putting in the effort to get it right pays off in the long-term. Taxonomies that are well-managed stay relevant, correct and useful. Heather has a wealth of experience and distils it into this session.

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The North American Collaboration Summit
2022-10-12 - 2022-10-14
We are sponsors of the North American Collaboration Summit 2022, the place to learn how to harness the power of your Microsoft 365 investments including SharePoint!
Our colleague Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at the Semantic Web Company, will host the following session:
“ENHANCING TAXONOMY AND TAGGING IN SHAREPOINT”
Are you wondering how you can improve the quality of search results from tagging in SharePoint? The Term Store is more than just a place to store terms (tags or metadata). Full taxonomies with browsable hierarchies, search-support synonyms, definitions, multilingual terms can be supported and utilized in multiple ways. Leveraging a taxonomy’s benefits, however, requires creating a taxonomy according to best practices and standards and applying the terms with consistent tagging policies, which can be further enhanced with semi-automated tagging.
This session will provide tips for creating better taxonomies, a look at the Term Store’s capabilities and limitations, recommendations for enterprise taxonomy governance, and a solution for auto-tagging integration with the SharePoint to ensure efficient, comprehensive, and consistent tagging, which results in improved content findability and user satisfaction.
Be part of it on October 12-14, 2022!
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The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference 2022
2022-10-23 - 2022-10-26
We are sponsors of LavaCon 2022, scheduled for October 23-26, 2022 in New Orleans. The 2022 conference program focuses on how content can be created and shared across the enterprise.
Our colleague Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company, will be holding a pre-conference workshop in the afternoon on “Using Taxonomies and Tagging to Connect Content Across the Enterprise.”
Be part of it on October 23, 2022, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM!
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KMWorld 2022
2022-11-07 - 2022-11-10
Organized and produced by Information Today, Inc., KMWorld and its co-located events, Taxonomy Boot Camp, Enterprise Search & Discovery and Text Analytics Forum, showcase organizations who have creative digital strategies for their future, are allowing experimental and risk-taking processes to inform their practices, have made solid progress in changing the culture of their enterprises, and know how to utilize AI and other technology in practical and useful ways to charge forward in their industries.

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Taxonomy 101This introductory taxonomy tutorial covers key concepts to get you up-to-speed for the rest of the conference or helps prepare you to take on a role in a taxonomy project.
Date:Monday, November 7: 10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Speaker:Heather Hedden, Data & Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company, USA, and author of The Accidental Taxonomist
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Using Taxonomies To Train Named Entity Recognition ModelsDiscover a step-by-step approach to automatic and consistent extraction of named entities from text in this session. It includes the technical and economic advantages of using it with demos and example applications.
Date:Monday, November 7: 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Speakers:Andreas Blumauer, Founder & CEO, Semantic Web Company Inc.
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Developing & Successfully using Powerful Recommender SystemsBlumauer provides a comprehensive overview of possible uses of recommender systems, and why they should be central building blocks in the digital workplace, especially in enterprise information systems such as knowledge and content hubs, customer experience platforms, or support systems.
Date:Tuesday, November 8: 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Speaker:Andreas Blumauer, Founder & CEO, Semantic Web Company Inc.
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Taxonomy Breaking Down SilosTaxonomy design is the first challenge but gaining adoption across corporate silos can be even harder. This session includes two case studies of how taxonomies break down barriers between different teams and systems.
Date:Tuesday, November 8: 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Speakers:Rachael Maddison, Content Infrastructure Architect & Lead Taxonomist, AdobeDonna Popky, Senior Taxonomy & Information Architecture Specialist, Harvard Business SchoolHeather Hedden, Data & Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company, USA, and author of The Accidental Taxonomist
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PANEL: Knowledge Graph Technology TodayThis panel of graph technology experts discuss the role of graphs in the enterprise search world, going beyond the marketing speak to concentrate on real world examples. With a focus on what actually works and how graph technology adds value by enriching unstructured data and connecting disparate elements that might otherwise be unknown, the panel confronts the myths and realities of today’s search world.
Date:Wednesday, November 9: 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m
Panelists:Joseph Hilger, COO, Enterprise Knowledge LLCHelmut Nagy, COO, Strategic Product Manager, Semantic Web Company GmbHIrene Polikoff, Chief Evangelist, TopQuadrant
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Ask The Experts PanelA panel of four text analytics experts answer questions that have been gathered before the conference, during the conference, and some additional questions from the program chair. This is one of our most popular features, so come prepared with your favorite questions and be ready to learn.
Date:Wednesday, November 9: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Panelists:Bryan Bell, RVP, Enterprise, YextJeffrey Catlin, Head, Lexalytics & InMoment CompanyAntonio Linari, Head of Innovation, Expert.aiHelmut Nagy, COO, Strategic Product Manager, Semantic Web Company GmbH
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Semantic Search: Implementations In Your EnterpriseDefining the scope of enterprise search is a challenge for companies that have extensive product documentation, such as software companies. Searching product documentation needs to be part of a larger knowledge hub, but this also needs to be enabled separately for external users. The different frontend applications can pull from different content repositories, but it may be more practical to have a single taxonomy and search technology. Heather Hedden presents some tips and issues in setting up a combined knowledge hub and help pages search at a software company.
Date:Thursday, November 10: 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Speaker:Heather Hedden, Data & Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company, USA, and author of The Accidental Taxonomist
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Graph-Based Text Mining at the Core of Knowledge Hubs and Semantic Data Fabrics: Two case studiesIn this talk, we will take a close look at knowledge hubs and semantic data fabrics and show how they can dynamically aggregate information from different data and content systems. By applying graph-based text mining methods and principles to multiple sources, they can provide users with personalized and contextualized views.
Date:Thursday, November 10: 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Speaker:Andreas Blumauer, Founder & CEO, Semantic Web Company Inc.
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Enterprise Solutions ShowcaseThe Enterprise Solutions Showcase will feature the top companies in the KM, CM, search, taxonomy, and intranets marketplace, offering attendees an opportunity to explore all of the latest in product and service solutions. If you are looking for a particular product, evaluating competing systems, or keeping up with the latest trends and developments, be sure to visit the Enterprise Solutions Showcase which will be open during the following hours:
Monday, November 7 | 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.Grand Opening Reception
Tuesday, November 8 | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.Networking Happy Hour 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 9 | 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Make sure to be there and meet the PoolParty team!
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TEKOM Germany 2022
2022-11-08 - 2022-11-10
The tekom annual conference brings together participants, speakers, students and exhibitors of technical communication from all over the world from all sectors. From November 8th to 10th, 2022 finally again in the ICS of the Stuttgart Trade Fair Center! At the same time, interested participants have the opportunity to follow parts of the conference program online.
We will be presenting:
Structured Content and Semantic Technology in Life Sciences – what has been achieved today already
Speakers: Sebastian Gabler, Chief Customer Officer & Director of Sales at SWC and Jörg Schmidt, Solutions Architect at RWS.
Date: November 09, 2022, from 14:00 – 14:45 (CET)
You’ll learn to:

Streamline content creation
Tackle regulation changes
Elevate UX – even on smart watches

Multilingual Taxonomies and Knowledge Graphs for Semantic AI.
Speakers: Sebastian Gabler, Chief Customer Officer & Director of Sales at SWC and Klaus Fleischmann, CEO at Kaleidoscope
Date: November 08, 2022, from 11:00 – 11:45 (CET)
You’ll learn to:

How to build taxonomies and knowledge graphs alongside classic terminologies.
Concrete examples of how these can be implemented in practice.

Augmented Semantic Operational Layer Based on Knowledge Graphs
Speakers: Lutz Krüger, Business Development & Sales Representative Germany at SWC
Date: November 09, 2022, from 09:30 – 10:15 (CET)

You’ll learn to:

Apply techniques of the Semantic Web to transform a company to a data centric organization
Overcome the heterogeneity of its information landscape.

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Data Day Texas 2023
2023-01-28
We are a sponsor of Data Day Texas 2023, scheduled for January 28, 2023, in Austin, Texas.
SWC Data and Knowledge Engineer Heather Hedden will lead a 90-minute tutorial on Taxonomies for Data Scientists followed by a 45-minute hands-on session.
This tutorial teaches the fundamentals and best practices for creating quality taxonomies, whether for the enterprise or for specific knowledge bases in any industry. Emphasis is on serving users rather than on theory. Topics to be covered include: the appropriateness of different kinds of knowledge organization systems (taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, etc.), standards, taxonomy best practices, and the connection of taxonomies to ontologies.
After the main 90-minute tutorial there will be a 45-minute optional hands-on workshop for those who want a deeper dive into taxonomy creation. This will focus on identifying concepts, determining preferred and alternative labels, and creating hierarchical and associative relationships.
Part 1 (90 minutes)

Introduction to taxonomies and their relevance to data
Comparisons of taxonomies, ontologies and knowledge organization systems
Standards for taxonomies and knowledge organization systems
Best practices for taxonomy concept and label creation
Taxonomy connections to ontologies and knowledge graphsBest practices and taxonomy management

Part 2 (45 minutes)

Taxonomy concept creation
Preferred and alternative label creation
Taxonomy relationship creation
Taxonomy management software demo

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DTT Symposion 2023
2023-03-02 - 2023-03-04
Together with our partners RWS and Kaleidoscope, we will be participating for the first time in this well-established event in Germany specialized in tools and technologies for terminology management.
If you’re around, be sure to meet Sebastian Gabler, Chief Customer Officer at Semantic Web Company.
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World Information Architecture Day - New Hampshire 2023
2023-03-04
What is the contribution of taxonomies to information architecture? Join Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company, for this 1-day event at Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH.
Heather will hold a workshop for “Taxonomy Creation.” Look at the description of the workshop:
Taxonomies help connect users to content, and they improve findability over keyword search alone. As such, taxonomies should be created so that they are customized to the content and to the users. How to go about this will be addressed in this interactive workshop. Content analysis and term extraction are methods to make a taxonomy match its content, and user interviews and brainstorming sessions are methods to make a taxonomy suit its users. Following an explanation of different taxonomy types and features, exercises will include analyzing a document for candidate concepts, looking at the results of a term extraction tool and of a search log report. Small breakout groups will then brainstorm a taxonomy structure and top terms to serve the identified users.

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PoolParty Summit 2023
2023-03-07 14:00 - 2023-03-08 20:00 | online
PoolParty Summit 2023

Get Inspired by the PoolParty User Experience.

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The Power of Connectivity in Times of Transformation.

The Semantic Web Company was proud to host the second edition of our PoolParty Summit. Spanning two days in our virtual event space, the PoolParty Summit 2023 explored how our PoolParty users managed to achieve stability and keep their customers happy during turbulent times.

With 20 sessions, over 30 speakers, and more than 1000 registrants, the Summit was a great success.

We broke it down into 3 major themes.

Digital Workplace
This track explored how semantic technologies are used to mitigate issues with organizational silos and ineffective workflows. See how PoolParty users have automated internal processes, built centralized knowledge spaces, and reduced financial and resource costs with smarter workplaces.

Intelligent Content
This track explored how semantic technologies are used to turn the burdens of unstructured data into content that is easy to manage, edit, and publish. See how PoolParty users are benefitting from semantic metadata, user-centric search engines, and personalized content recommendations.

Tech deep dive
This track explored all things tech. Viewers can get a glimpse into PoolParty and our partners’ technological capabilities and features, and learn about semantic methodologies in presentations led by leaders in the field. Experience PoolParty in depth with presentations, demos, roadmaps, and more.

The PoolParty Summit 2023 has passed,but you can still watch the recordings!

Tridion Success Summit UK 2023
2023-03-09 - 2023-03-10
Two years ago we formed a promising partnership with RWS to integrate PoolParty’s semantic AI into their intelligent content management solution called Tridion. This year, Andreas Blaumauer, CEO of the Semantic Web Company, will be speaking on recommender systems at the Tridion Success Summit, taking place on March 9-10, 2023 in London, UK.
Don’t miss Andreas’s session on the 1st day at 2:00 p.m.!
We hope to see you there!

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NORDIC TechKomm 2023
2023-03-21 - 2023-03-22 | Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Semantic Web Company is pleased to be a sponsor of NORDIC TechKomm in Stockholm. This conference brings together international experts to discuss current trends and issues in the field of technical communication.
Together with our partner Kaleidoscope, Sebastian Gabler, Chief Customer Officer at Semantic Web Company, will present on “TERMINOLOGY IS FOR HUMANS. MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR MACHINES!”
Don’t miss it on March 21 from 2:40 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. (CET)
In this presentation, speakers will show how you can enable terminology to bridge the gap between the “human grade” data contained in the terminology and the structured approach required by “machines”.

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2023 IAC: The Information Architecture Conference
2023-03-30 - 2023-04-01 | New Orleans, LA
The IA conference is a gathering of practitioners from around the globe, who practice and teach Information Architecture and other design-related disciplines. SWC Data & Knowledge Engineer Heather Hedden will provide an Introduction to Knowledge Graphs on the first day of the conference at 11:00 am CT.
Be sure to register for the conference and attend Heather’s session to learn why there is a growing interest in knowledge graphs to organize information and make it findable in organizations with large amounts of data and content.
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Heather Hedden
Product Communication Representative - Americas

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