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Panel Discussion: Connecting the Past - Present - Future with Semantic A.I.
2022-12-01 16:45 - 18:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
PANEL DISCUSSION

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future with Semantic A.I.
How historians and knowledge engineers are overcoming challenges with the help of Semantics

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Speakers
Lizzy Jongma, Senior Project Lead, Network for War Collections WWII
Joop Vanderheiden, Information & Business Systems Specialist, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
Ioanna Lytra, Senior Data & Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company

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December 1, 2022

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Past – Present – Future with Semantic A.I.

How can we utilize the power of technology to enable us to preserve historical data and connect vast amounts of content, people, and intent while helping us understand trends that might predict the future?
Strategic use of Well-Implemented Thesauri, Semantic Footprinting, and Concept-Based Tagging
This panel discussion is presented jointly with Lizzy Jongma, Joop Vanderheiden and Ioanna Lytra and takes a deep dive into the fascinating world of historical and archaeological documentation and explores the information sources and research methodologies available to those who are seeking to gain a richer understanding of Semantic A.I. and connect knowledge sources in a meaningful way.
Our panelist, Lizzy Jongma will discuss how setting up a comprehensive World War II thesaurus provided by PoolParty benefited her organization by giving meaning, matching objects and establishing a holistic framework for knowledge and information about the Second World War.
Next, Joop Vanderheiden presents a case study in which a solution for adding metadata to archaeological reports minimizes manual tagging effort, yet offers a rich search and discovery experience.
Finally, Ioanna Lytra will focus on PoolParty Text Mining and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities, in particular, will explain the technologies behind automatic concept extraction and disambiguation, semantic classification, and context-based recommendations.
This panel discussion showcases the role that well-implemented thesauri, Semantic Footprinting and concept-based tagging including common and current challenges historians and knowledge engineers are facing along with various use case discussions.

Speakers

Lizzy Jongma
Senior Project Lead, Network for War Collections WII
As a project manager, Lizzy works on digitization, opening up and linking data about the Second World War using new digital technologies. Oorlogsbronnen.nl collects and connects over 15 million historical objects to describe and explain WW2, to recreate lives of victims and perpetrators and to show hidden gems from over 250 collections in The Netherlands and abroad.
Oorlogsbronnen.nl has won a Museums and the Web, Best of the Web Award (2020), 3 Dutch Interactive Awards (2022) and 4 LOVIE Awards (2022).
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Joop Vanderheiden
Information & Business Systems Specialist, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
Joop’s work lies at the intersection of thesauri, semantics, and linked data. Currently, Joop is mainly working on the RCE’s new linked data facility. ” The Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE) advises and inspires in the preservation, sustainable development, and accessibility of the Netherlands’ most valuable heritage.” In the fields of monument conservation, archaeology, historical landscape, and museum collections, the RCE implements laws and regulations. The RCE is part of the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science.
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Ioanna Lytra
Senior Data & Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company
Ioanna supports companies in setting up Enterprise Knowledge Graphs as well as leveraging them, in order to address challenges and provide solutions in data management and linking, semantic search, recommendation systems and question answering.
She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Vienna.
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Webinar: Master your Enterprise Knowledge
2022-12-06 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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Master your Enterprise Knowledge
Knowledge Hubs at the Center of your Information Architecture

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Andreas Blumauer, CEO & Co-Founder, Semantic Web Company
Atanas Kiryakov, CEO & Founder, Ontotext

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December 6, 2022

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Knowledge Hubs to Master your Enterprise

Knowledge hubs provide integrated and holistic views of the originally siloed and disjointed information scattered throughout an organization. Knowledge hubs are built on a knowledge graph, which can be understood as a multi-dimensional search index that can even be used to uncover hidden knowledge.
Developing Knowledge Graphs to form the base of a solid Knowledge Hub
In this webinar, two pioneers and experienced company founders and CEOs explain the strategic importance of developing knowledge graphs in the enterprise as an essential building block for any information architecture and AI strategy.
Knowledge graphs are not only the foundation for knowledge hubs, but also for many other cognitive applications (document intelligence, recommender systems, …) that your company is probably currently planning to develop or has already developed. Using different use cases, we will describe how knowledge hubs can be used and how the underlying knowledge graphs are furthermore used in different industries.
We will also present the key success factors in developing, operating and evolving knowledge graphs, which make a real difference compared to mainstream enterprise search:

Formal domain knowledge that allows for intelligent interpretation of the meaning of the information and deriving deeper insights
Semantic metadata that augments documents, and other information artifacts, with formal descriptions using, and referring to, the domain knowledge model
Text analysis tools that allow for the automatic generation of the semantic metadata
Tools for evaluation of the text analysis models and quality control
Enterprise-grade storage and indexing infrastructure

Speakers

Andreas Blumauer
CEO & Co-Founder, Semantic Web Company
Andreas Blumauer is CEO and co-founder of Semantic Web Company (SWC), the provider and developer of the PoolParty Semantic Platform. With headquarters in Vienna, Austria, but operating globally, SWC has worked with over 200 commercial, government, and non-profit organizations to deliver AI and semantic search solutions, knowledge platforms, content hubs, and related data modeling and integration services. SWC was named to KMWorld’s prestigious list of “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management” from 2016 to 2021 and has been named multiple times in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions and as a Sample Vendor in their Hype Cycle for Natural Language Technologies.
In his role as CEO, Andreas is responsible for both the strategic growth of the company and its organizational evolution toward a highly focused customer orientation. SWC has grown every year since its inception under his leadership, and has been able to develop a cutting-edge and unique software platform that is ISO 27001 certified, and deployed globally across a number of key industries.
A high profile partner network has been built around this platform, implementing scalable semantic AI platforms for his clients, many of whom are among the largest and most innovative companies in their industries.
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Atanas Kiryakov
CEO & Founder, Ontotext
Atanas Kiryakov is the founder and CEO of Ontotext and member of the board of the Linked Data Benchmarking Council – standardization body, who’s members include the major graph database vendors.
Kiryakov obtained his M.Sc. degree in AI from the Sofia University, Bulgaria, in 1995. Today he is a top expert in semantic graph databases, reasoning, knowledge graphs, text mining, semantic tagging, linking and search. Author of signature academic publications with more than 2500 citations. Atanas is partner and board member in Sirma Group Holding – one of the biggest Bulgarian IT businesses, listed at the Sofia Stock Exchange. Atanas started in Sirma as software engineer in 1993 and became a partner in 1997. In the 90s he has led projects in the areas of CASE, CSCW, and b2b for big corporations and government organizations in US and Canada.
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Webinar: From Data to Knowledge with Semantic AI
2023-01-26 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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From Data to Knowledge with Semantic AI
How PoolParty takes blocks of data and turns it into something meaningful

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Speakers
Hakim Tafer, Data Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company

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Date
January 26, 2023

Data, Business Objects, and Knowledge Graphs

The key to successful digital transformation of any company is to be able to dynamically generate comprehensive 360-degree views of core processes and business objects. Making holistic views of heterogeneous data landscapes available to knowledge workers in their individual contexts is the most efficient way to turn data into real competitive advantages – adding value for both employees and customers.
How are Content, Data and People Connected?
With the increasing speed of technological advancements, the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry is continually pushing the bar in innovation.
These industries require significant research and development, creating an endless amount of data and content that is very difficult to manage and find. A void is often created in what could otherwise be a potential treasure trove of data used for automation, deeper text analytics, recommender systems, and networking with other data in the enterprise.
Implementing a Knowledge Graph in combination with AI and Machine Learning algorithms helps put context and rationale into their data, allowing them to make informed decisions based on all of the information available.
Join us in our webinar led by Data & Knowledge Engineer Hakim Tafer, subject matter expert for healthcare and pharmaceuticals, to learn how data can be turned into knowledge with the help of semantics.
This webinar will present the key success factors in developing, operating and evolving Semantic AI in your enterprise with the help of PoolParty, including:

Text Mining, NLP and IDP
Document Classification, Categorization and Optimization
Best Practices to overcome Disambiguation
Corpus Management 101

Speakers

Hakim Tafer
Data Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company
Hakim Tafer has over 20 years of experience in data, information and knowledge analytics, and management projects. He has worked in a broad range of industries with a focus on pharma and consulting companies.
As a Data and Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company, he developed numerous implementation architectures in the field of graph-powered Natural Language Processing (NLP).
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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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Webinar: How to Engineer Intelligent Content
2023-02-09 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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How to Engineer Intelligent Content

From zero to HERO

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Speakers
Ross Leher, CEO, WAND Inc.
Chip Gettinger, VP Global Solutions Consulting, RWS

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February 9, 2023

The Lifecycle of Information and Content

What if there was a way to bring together all components of intelligent content? To increase the value of information for customers and employees while improving the overall content lifecycle management?
PoolParty, Tridion and WAND – The Trinity of Intelligent Content Engineering
This is possible with the use of a comprehensive and holistic Semantic AI solution that grants you access to all domains of knowledge management – PoolParty’s OEM integration with RWS’ Tridion is a state-of-the-art intelligent content solution. This solution connects people, processes, and information with the most complete portfolio of collaborative Content Management, Knowledge Management, and Headless delivery technologies. A 360° solution that can be used together with WAND-curated taxonomies to help you kickstart semantic AI processes faster than ever.
Join us in this webinar with a comprehensive case study and learn how the combination of PoolParty, Tridion and WAND-curated industry taxonomies support you with :

An entirely new approach to content development and distribution
Longevity and automation in content and data management
A dynamic approach to engage content authoring and distribution that scales with the needs of your customers and employees
Reduce the complexity and costs associated with the timely delivery of quality technical content across traditional and digital channels
Immediately implement Semantic AI and incorporate your unstructured data

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Speakers

Ross Leher
CEO, WAND Inc.
Ross Leher is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WAND, Inc. Mr. Leher, whose background includes international commerce, trade, and retailing, has a proven record of growing innovative businesses in highly competitive markets.
WAND has developed structured vocabularies with related tools and services to improve the performance of 140+ enterprise applications. WAND’s Taxonomy Library contains more than 100 domain-specific taxonomies WAND data can be integrated into a wide variety of enterprise applications.
Mr. Leher is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Economics.
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Chip Gettinger
VP Global Solutions Consulting, RWS
Chip Gettinger is the VP of Global Solutions Consulting at RWS, he manages a team that works with customers in maximizing global content with RWS.
He has experience working with customers to develop global content strategies, business ROI adoption drivers, change management, and technology adoption for component content management systems. He speaks and blogs about customer successes working closely with industry standards, partners, and customers in technology solutions and deployments.
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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 (Europe/Vienna) | 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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Panel Discussion: Knowledge Portals: A 2023 Trend
2023-03-14 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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Knowledge Portals: A 2023 Trend

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Speakers
Andreas Blumauer, CEO & Co-Founder, Semantic Web Company
Zach Wahl, CEO & Co-Founder, Enterprise Knowledge (EK)
Dr. Dorian Selz, CEO & Co-Founder, Squirro

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March 14, 2023

The Conundrum of Constantly Growing Data

As companies keep struggling to make the most of their constantly growing data, and their stakeholders spend more time sifting through disparate sources, various technologies have been developed to solve several pieces of the puzzle. However, these technologies, on their own, don’t fully solve the problem of converting this data into business intelligence.
Join Enterprise Knowledge, Squirro, and Semantic Web Company for this 1-hour on-demand panel discussion.

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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

Meet me at the conference

If you can't find a slot, please do not hesitate to contact me via email!

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Webinar: Taxonomy For Delivering Targeted Technical Content
2023-04-12 | online
ESPC2024 – Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Conference

Online Webinar | April 12, 2023, at 7:00 pm CEST or 1:00 pm EDT

There are multiple ways a taxonomy, as the intermediary between users and content, can help us deliver targeted technical content experiences. Taxonomy expert, Heather Hedden, was invited to The Content Wrangler to share what she’s learned about how content teams use taxonomies to deliver targeted content experiences to different audiences.

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ConVEx Baltimore 2023
2023-04-17 - 2023-04-19 | Balitmore, MD
For the second time we will be at ConVEx, the conference for content developers that will take place in Baltimore from April 17 to 19, 2023.
Our colleague Heather Hedden, Knowledge and Data Engineer at Semantic Web Company, will hold a talk about “Knowledge Hub Creation Challenges and Solutions.“ Be prepared to learn how an enterprise knowledge hub brings together content from multiple repositories, applications, or silos with a single search and retrieval application.
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT

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Webinar: From Document Search to Document Understanding
2023-04-19 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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From Document Search to Document Understanding

How to take text analytics to the next level

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Speakers
Helmut Nagy, COO,
Semantic Web Company
Michael Iantosca, Senior Director of Content Platforms, Avalara

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Date
April 19, 2023

Why do we DO Text Analysis?

Simply put – we do text analysis to improve enterprise search.
But what does that mean exactly? Our webinar, led by Helmut Nagy, COO at Semantic Web Company, and Michael Iantosca, Senior Director of Content Platforms at Avalara, will break it down in the following ways:

What is enterprise search?
How to extract entities from text with machine learning and/or taxonomies
Incorporating ontologies to enable named entity recognition
Concept-based tagging and how it can be paired with an enterprise knowledge graph to contextualize the content
Recipes towards structured content and how that can improve content delivery and grant personalized user experiences

Using Semantic Understanding in Content AND Structure
This webinar will guide viewers toward how better enterprise search can be used in real-world applications. Say you’re a contract department and you’re interested in locating paragraphs in various documents that pertain to penalties, which are spread across multiple databases and maybe even departments. A simple search is painstaking, but an enterprise search powered by semantics allows you to find specific articles down to the very sentence that mentions the penalty you’re looking for.
To achieve this, the search engine needs to semantically understand not only the content but also the structure of the document. There are standards such as DITA that focus on generic structures. Combined with knowledge graphs, this can be turned into a methodology for semantically understanding the structure of documents. This allows for more precise text analysis, as we can focus on using the right methods for the different contexts of a document. In this webinar, we will illustrate this principle with use cases, demos, and methodology.
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Speakers

Helmut Nagy
COO, Semantic Web Company
Helmut is Chief Operating Officer of the Semantic Web Company (SWC). In his role as COO and Strategic Product Manager for the PoolParty Semantic Platform, he designs and implements customer-centric processes and plans the strategic development of the PoolParty Semantic Suite together with the involved teams based on the SWC business strategy.
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Michael Iantosca
Senior Director of Content Platforms, Avalara
Michael Iantosca is the Senior Director of Content Platforms at Avalara Inc. Michael spent 38 of his 40+ years at IBM as a content professional and pioneer – leading the design and development of multiple generations of advanced content management systems and technology that began at the very dawn of the structured content revolution in the early 80s. Dual trained as a content professional and systems engineer, he led the charge building some of the earliest content platforms based on structured content. Michael was responsible for forming the team at IBM that developed DITA XML – the most successful and widely adopted open standard for developing user assistance and other structure documentation.
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Bite-Sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2023
2023-04-26 | online
Boot Camp BASICS takes place on Wednesday 26 April 2023, delivering an easy-to-understand half-day introduction to taxonomies, culminating in an extended ‘ask us anything’ Q&A session where your specific questions will be answered by our taxonomy experts, along with signposting to useful organisations in the space.
Presented by Heather Hedden, Data & Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company.
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Webinar: Warum und wie Terminologie für „Maschinen“ verfügbar gemacht wird
2023-04-27 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Vienna) | IN DEUTSCHER SPRACHE
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Warum und wie Terminologie für „Maschinen“ verfügbar gemacht wird

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Speakers
Klaus Fleischmann, CEO, Kaleidoscope
Sebastian Gabler, Chief Customer Officer, Semantic Web Company

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April 27, 2023

Maschinen „verstehen“ helfen

Terminologie als Grundlage für Inhaltsqualität und Wissensmanagement ist vor allem für Menschen konzipiert. Aber digitale Transformation, künstliche Intelligenz, Internet der Dinge, digitale Zwillinge, semantische KI: Sie alle erfordern Terminologie in einer digitalen Form, die Maschinen „verstehen“. Wie können wir die hochwertigen, mehrsprachigen und unternehmensweit abgestimmten Daten an Taxonomien, Ontologien oder Wissensgraphen weitergeben?
In unserer Präsentation zeigen wir, wie Sie Daten gleichzeitig in Kalcium Quickterm nach allen Regeln der Terminologiekunst pflegen und sie dabei in Poolparty als Taxonomien via SKOS, SparQL und Linked Data Prinzipien für Semantische KI-Anwendungen weiterverwenden können.
Struktur:

Warum Maschinen Terminologie benötigen

Anforderungen an die Terminologie
Anforderungen von “Maschinen” und aus der Digitalisierung

Wie lassen sich beide Welten vereinen?
Wie Taxonomien, Ontologien oder Wissensgraphen Ergebnisse liefern können

Speakers

Klaus Fleischmann
CEO, Kaleidoscope
Klaus Fleischmann studierte Konferenzdolmetschen in Wien und Monterey, USA, sowie Technische Kommunikation in Krems. 1996 gründete er und leitet seither die Kaleidoscope GmbH als System- und Beratungshaus für Global Content mit führenden Softwarelösungen für Terminologie-, Qualitäts-, Rückfragen- und Reviewmanagement. Seit 2007 ist er CEO der eurocom Translation Services GmbH in Wien.
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Sebastian Gabler
Chief Customer Officer, Semantic Web Company
Ursprünglich ausgebildet als Recording Producer mit einem Diplomabschluss an der Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin, verfolgt Sebastian seit über 15 Jahren eine Karriere im Archiv- und Informationsmanagement, nachdem er 5 Jahre in der Musikproduktion für Radio, TV und Tonträgerindustrie tätig war. 2017 wechselte er zur Semantic Web Company in Wien und wurde 2020 zum Chief Customer Officer ernannt. In dieser Position unterstützt er Kunden aus allen Branchen bei der Entwicklung intelligenter Anwendungen mit semantischer KI. Sebastian war in verschiedenen Unternehmen in den Bereichen Technik, Vertrieb und Projektmanagement tätig, unter anderem 11 Jahre lang im Bereich der audiovisuellen Archivierung, und hat kürzlich seinen Master of Sciences in Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft abgeschlossen.
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The Web Conference 2023
2023-04-30 - 2023-05-04 | Austin, TX
The 2023 ACM Web Conference will offer a high quality program made of research sessions, posters and demonstrations, a PhD symposium for the junior scholars, workshops, tutorials, a developers track for the practitioners as well as thought provoking keynote speakers, panels, special track on web for good, History of the Web, and colocated special days.
Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company’s CEO, will present “The ESG Knowledge Hub,” as part of the “ The First International Workshop on Knowledge for Graphs for Sustainability” on May 1. Find out more about this workshop on its website.
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The Knowledge Graph Conference 2023
2023-05-08 - 2023-05-12 | New York, NY
We are sponsoring The Knowledge Graph Conference to be held May 8-12, 2023 at Cornell Tech in New York City.
Do not miss our speakers at KGC

Andreas Blumauer: Supporting ESG Strategies with Enterprise Recommender Systems and Knowledge Graphs
Martin Kaltenböck: How Knowledge Graphs foster interoperability in Data Spaces
Heather Hedden: Taxonomy-Driven Ontology Design

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Data Summit
2023-05-10 - 2023-05-11 | Hyatt Regency Boston, MA
Data Summit is the data management, analytics, and AI conference. At Data Summit 2023, you’ll hear the innovative approaches the world’s leading companies are taking to solve today’s key challenges in data management. Data Summit also includes two special co-located events: AI & Machine Learning Summit and DataMesh & DataFabric Boot Camp.
Heather Hedden, Semantic Web Company’s Product Communication Representative – Americas, will be moderating the AI & Machine Learning Summit conference track on the second day of the conference, Thursday, May 11. Meet with Heather then or during the conference breaks.

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SLA 2023 Annual Conference
2023-05-16 - 2023-05-19 | Hybrid
MLA | SLA’23 is the premier learning and networking event for librarians in business, legal, medical, military, government, academic and other “specialized” information environments.
Be sure to register for the conference and attend the sessions from SWC Knowledge Engineer Heather Hedder:

Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
Maintaining and Managing a Changing Taxonomy: Taxonomy Governance Fundamentals

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European Collaboration Summit, Düsseldorf
2023-05-22 - 2023-05-24 | Congress Center Düsseldorf (CCD) / Düsseldorf Fair, Düsseldorf, Germany
We are sponsors of the European Collaboration Summit.
European Collaboration Summit is the leading and the largest Microsoft 365 focused conference in Europe, with the expected attendance of 2500 people. During this three-day event, world-leading experts and speakers will deliver a series of full day tutorials and a range of “what’s new” and “best practices” breakout sessions relevant to these technologies.
Meet the PoolParty team at our booth at the European Collaboration Summit, where we will be giving demos of our new PoolParty for SharePoint integration.

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Webinar: ESG Strategies with Semantic AI
2023-05-30 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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ESG STRATEGIES WITHSEMANTIC AI

ESG meets Knowledge Graphs

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Andreas Blumauer, CEO & Co-founder, Semantic Web Company

What is Environmental Social Governance – ESG?

The global sustainability challenges have created new risk factors for both investors and companies, which require a re-evaluation of traditional investment approaches. Companies should view ESG not only as a necessity to be compliant, but as an opportunity for transformation.
How to build an ESG knowledge model as a basis for semantic search, ESG knowledge hubs, and smart recommender services
In this webinar, we introduce the ESG topic complex and we show that the use of a comprehensive ESG knowledge model can support the implementation of ESG strategies in a multitude of ways. For example, to optimize ESG risk management, enhance sustainability reporting, and even provide rich information around ESG topics to all types of stakeholders, including supply chain managers, risk managers, and ESG strategists.
Based on Semantic Web Company’s ESG knowledge model, we present several demo applications that illustrate the benefits of semantic knowledge graphs, especially when it comes to:

Integrating and efficiently accessing different interests
Hierarchical target systems (e.g. SDGs, EU taxonomy, etc.)
Multi-layered regulatory conditions in complex, dynamic knowledge domains

Among other things, we will also show how semantic enrichment helps ChatGPT elicit more precise answers to questions around ESG.
ESG meets Knowledge Graphs!

This webinar is now available on our Recomentor site, which is our AI-powered product dedicated to ESG management. Head over to that site to watch the webinar on-demand.

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Andreas Blumauer
CEO & Co-founder, Semantic Web Company
Andreas Blumauer is CEO and co-founder of Semantic Web Company (SWC), the provider and developer of the PoolParty Semantic Platform. With headquarters in Vienna, Austria, but operating globally, SWC has worked with over 200 commercial, government, and non-profit organizations to deliver AI and semantic search solutions, knowledge platforms, content hubs, and related data modeling and integration services. SWC was named to KMWorld’s prestigious list of “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management” from 2016 to 2021 and has been named multiple times in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions and as a Sample Vendor in their Hype Cycle for Natural Language Technologies.
In his role as CEO, Andreas is responsible for both the strategic growth of the company and its organizational evolution toward a highly focused customer orientation. SWC has grown every year since its inception under his leadership, and has been able to develop a cutting-edge and unique software platform that is ISO 27001 certified, and deployed globally across a number of key industries.
A high profile partner network has been built around this platform, implementing scalable semantic AI platforms for his clients, many of whom are among the largest and most innovative companies in their industries.
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Responsible Business Europe 2023
2023-06-06 - 2023-06-07 | London, United Kingdom
The PoolParty Team is passionate about Environmental – Social – Governance (ESG) and how technology can help organizations towards more sustainable businesses.
To gather more insights about this topic, we’ll be attending the Reuters’ Responsible Business Europe 2023 taking place in London. This conference will host market-leading companies to give inspiring talks and case studies about ESG-related issues.

At the conference, we’re happy to network with fellow attendees to discuss ESG and how Semantic AI can provide better knowledge management for ESG data and content. Get a sneak peek into some of the solutions we’re developing in regards to this domain.

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Webinar: Bringing Together Taxonomies and Terminologies
2023-06-21 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Vienna) | online
LIVE WEBINAR

Bringing Together Taxonomies and Terminologies

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Speakers
Klaus Fleischmann, CEO, Kaleidoscope
Sebastian Gabler, Chief Customer Officer, Semantic Web Company

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Date
June 21, 2023

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6:00 p.m. CEST9:00 a.m. PDT12:00 p.m. EDT

Taxonomies vs. Terminologies

Taxonomies and terminologies can be seen as different sides of the same coin. However, the focus is quite different. Taxonomies make linguistic data available for machines and humans to distill knowledge and often to manage chaos. Terminologies harmonize language, make sure everyone uses consistent and correct words, and try to avoid chaos from the outset.
Organizations obviously require both, so it is only natural for Semantic Web Company and Kaleidoscope to integrate their two platforms and offer a combined taxonomy and terminology management solution.
This presentation and demo show you:

how to connect your PoolParty taxonomy to the Kalcium terminology suite
and add terminology benefits to your existing data:

human-grade, rich metadata, organizational decision workflows, and automatic guidance in word choice for authors and translators alike

Don’t miss your chance to hear these two knowledge leaders – Register now!

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Klaus Fleischmann
CEO, Kaleidoscope
Klaus Fleischmann studied translation and IT in Vienna, and holds an MA in Conference Interpreting from Monterey, California, and a MAS in Technical Communication from Krems, Austria. I
n 1996, he founded Austria-based Kaleidoscope, a company implementing content, translation, and terminology management processes for internationally active companies. Kaleidoscope develops online collaboration software for enterprise-level terminology workflow, translator query management, in-country review, etc., making the translation quality process comprehensible and strategically manageable.
In 2007, he became CEO of Austria´s leading LSP, Eurocom Translation Services. Always active in the industry, Klaus got voted into the Gala Board of Directors in 2015 and 2017.
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Sebastian Gabler
Chief Customer Officer, Semantic Web Company
Sebastian Gabler originally trained as a Recording Producer with a diploma from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and 5 years of music production for radio, TV, and the recording industry; he has been pursuing a career in archive and information management for over 15 years
In 2017, he joined Semantic Web Company in Vienna and was appointed Chief Customer Officer in 2020. In this position, he supports customers from all industries in developing intelligent applications with semantic AI. Sebastian has worked in various companies in the areas of technology, sales, and project management, including 11 years in the field of audiovisual archiving, and has recently completed his Master of Sciences in Library and Information Science.
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Webinar: PoolParty for SharePoint: The Release Show
2023-06-27 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
ON-DEMAND: THE RELEASE SHOW

POOLPARTY FOR SHAREPOINT
Everything you need to know about optimizing your workplace

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Speakers
Helmut Nagy, COO, Strategic Product Owner, Semantic Web Company
Alexi Lopez-Lorca, Associate Director of Professional Services, PoolParty for SharePoint Product Manager, Semantic Web Company

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Date
June 27, 2023

In recent years, businesses have had to adapt to hybrid work formats, high turnover, disconnect, and more. Artificial intelligence is forecasted to be one of the major factors that will allow organizations to move past these hurdles.
Get to know PoolParty for SharePoint!
Semantic Web Company’s PoolParty for SharePoint is one such solution geared toward optimizing workplace productivity and knowledge retention with Semantic AI. Over the past year, our team has been revamping the product to ensure that it is the best version yet – it captures employee expertise and comes complete with auto tagging and semantic search features.
To celebrate the launch of our product, we’re throwing a little “party.” In this live broadcast, we will move from the traditional webinar format into something more relaxed.
Tune in for a lively Q&A with Product Owner, Helmut Nagy, and Product Manager, Alexi Lopez-Lorca, who will speak to the merits of the PoolParty for SharePoint solution – their experiences with working on it, our recent presence at a Microsoft conference, and other exciting topics.
We’ll be discussing some of the following topics:

What’s it about? How does it work?
Who are the people behind the product?
How do we fit into the Microsoft network?
What benefits can you experience as a customer?

In the meantime, have a look at our product page to learn more about how PoolParty for SharePoint can be used to enhance your experience in SharePoint Online.
We hope to see you there!

Speakers

Helmut Nagy
COO & PoolParty for SharePoint Product Owner
Helmut is Chief Operating Officer of the Semantic Web Company (SWC). In his role as COO and Strategic Product Manager for the PoolParty Semantic Platform, he designs and implements customer-centric processes and plans the strategic development of the PoolParty Semantic Suite together with the involved teams based on the SWC business strategy.
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Alexi Lopez-Lorca
Associate Director of Professional Services & PoolParty for SharePoint Product Manager, Semantic Web Company
Alexi Lopez-Lorca has a technical background, holding a degree in computer science, with a specialisation in artificial intelligence. His Master’s thesis looked at problems of Requirements Engineering (RE) in a global software development environment. Alexi’s PhD investigated how knowledge representation technologies could be used to validate requirements models and his postdoc took him back into more social and human-centred topics. I studied how to identify and model people’s emotional needs and how to factor them into software development. He is a Data & Knowledge Engineer and Associate Director of Professional Services at Semantic Web Company.
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Webinar: Responsible AI based on LLMs
2023-07-14 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

RESPONSIBLE AI BASED ON LLMS

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Speakers
Andreas Blumauer, Founder and CEO, Semantic Web CompanyMichael Iantosca, Senior Director of Content Platforms, Avalara Inc.

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Date
July 14, 2023

Unraveling Controversies: The mixed emotions felt toward generative AI
After ChatGPT was made available to the public in November 2022, it became clear to even the biggest AI skeptics that a new era has now dawned and that AI will eventually enter many areas of life in the coming years.
Can AI become responsible?
ChatGPT attracted a lot of attention with its detailed answers covering a wide range of knowledge areas, but at the same time the call for responsible and explainable AI became louder again. Indeed, a notable drawback of generative AI, and large language models (LLMs) in particular, is their tendency to often generate superficial and inaccurate information that, moreover, does not provide any provenance information.
While it has become clear in recent months that generative AI and especially LLMs, on which ChatGPT is also based, are arguably fundamental building blocks of an enterprise-grade AI architecture, this needs to be complemented by other technologies and measures in order to speak of responsible AI. In particular, governance models and legal frameworks have yet to be put in place, as will be mandated, for example, by the EU in its forthcoming AI Act, to provide sufficient assurances to all stakeholders (investors, companies, citizens and consumers, etc.).
In this webinar, Michael Iantosca (Avalara) and Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) discuss the merging of LLMs and semantic technologies, in particular how knowledge graphs can be used in combination with services like ChatGPT to develop applications that combine the best of both worlds to lead to responsible, explainable generative AI.
Questions identified as critical, particularly for regulated industries, will focus on:

What is the role of high-quality, well-structured training data?
How should the ‘human-in-the-loop (HITL)’ design principle be evaluated in the context of LLMs?
What AI applications for regulated industries, e.g. around ESG standards, are realistic in the immediate future?

Michael and Andreas have been working on the fusion of different AI, content and knowledge technologies for several decades, and at the end of this webinar still dare to look into the future to discuss and contrast different scenarios with more or less usable, respectively responsible AI.
We hope to see you there!

Speakers

Andreas Blumauer
CEO at Semantic Web Company
Andreas Blumauer is CEO and co-founder of Semantic Web Company (SWC), the provider and developer of the PoolParty Semantic Platform. With headquarters in Vienna, Austria, but operating globally, SWC has worked with over 200 commercial, government, and non-profit organizations to deliver AI and semantic search solutions, knowledge platforms, content hubs, and related data modeling and integration services. SWC was named to KMWorld’s prestigious list of “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management” from 2016 to 2021 and has been named multiple times in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions and as a Sample Vendor in their Hype Cycle for Natural Language Technologies.
In his role as CEO, Andreas is responsible for both the strategic growth of the company and its organizational evolution toward a highly focused customer orientation. SWC has grown every year since its inception under his leadership, and has been able to develop a cutting-edge and unique software platform that is ISO 27001 certified, and deployed globally across a number of key industries.
A high profile partner network has been built around this platform, implementing scalable semantic AI platforms for his clients, many of whom are among the largest and most innovative companies in their industries.
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Michael Iantosca
Senior Director of Content Platforms, Avalara
Michael Iantosca is the Senior Director of Content Platforms at Avalara Inc. Michael spent 38 of his 40+ years at IBM as a content professional and pioneer – leading the design and development of multiple generations of advanced content management systems and technology that began at the very dawn of the structured content revolution in the early 80s. Dual trained as a content professional and systems engineer, he led the charge building some of the earliest content platforms based on structured content. Michael was responsible for forming the team at IBM that developed DITA XML – the most successful and widely adopted open standard for developing user assistance and other structure documentation.
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ConVEx IDEAS Content Strategy Conference
2023-07-17 - 2023-07-19 | online
ConVEx IDEAS is a new even taking the best of the past ConVEx and IDEAS conferences to create a new panel-based virtual conference. Semantic Web Company’s Heather Hedden joins three other experts on the Taxonomy panel to address leading issues and trends in taxonomies and especially how they relate to content strategy for technical documentation.
Other panel topics include Knowledge Center, Unifying Content, Generative AI/Chat GPT, Process Maturity/DITA Maturity, CCMS Implementation, UI Text, Web Analytics, Localization, and Inclusive Language.
Click the button below for more information about ConVEx IDEAS.

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Webinar: Enterprise PowerPack: Get The Fundamentals of Semantic AI
2023-07-20 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Enterprise PowerPack: Get The Fundamentals of Semantic AI
Leverage the benefits of knowledge graphs and semantic tagging in a can’t miss software bundle

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Speakers
Vassil Momtchev, CTO at Ontotext
Martin Trajkov, Business Development & Partner Sales Engineer at Semantic Web Company

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Date
July 20, 2023

Enterprises generate an enormous amount of data and content every minute. This data feeds business applications such as recommender systems, search engines, chat bots, analytics tools, etc. But often these applications do not deliver the expected results, which diminishes the customer and employee experience when using an application. This ends up affecting the potential for companies to have a real impact on their processes and results.
Knowledge graphs and Semantic AI as the (better) next step
With the help of knowledge graphs and Semantic AI, organizations can enrich their data and content with semantic metadata, making it ready to be used across teams and enterprise systems.
Knowledge graphs use a powerful software stack to support the modern data and content infrastructure needed to create smart applications and leverage existing ones. That’s why Semantic Web Company and Ontotext have partnered to provide the blueprint for your success and allow applications to get the job done.
Our webinar will put a spotlight on this partnership and show you all the benefits of working with two of the best industry leaders.
Join Vassil Momtchev, CTO at Ontotext and Martin Trajkov, Business Development & Partner Sales Engineer at SWC as they walk you through the following topics:

How do knowledge graphs make a difference?
How to build knowledge graphs with PoolParty and GraphDB?
How to enrich taxonomies with ChatGPT data?
Common use cases: high performance tagging and agile data integration
Real customer stories to get inspired by

We hope to see you there!

Speakers

Vassil Momtchev
CTO at Ontotext
Vassil has more than 15 years in software development in various domains like life sciences, pharmaceutical, health care and telecommunication. In the past 10 years he is mainly engaged with the development of complex enterprise knowledge management solutions that feature natural language processing, text analytics, reasoning, semantics, ontology design, linked data, conceptual model design, implementation of formal grammars and graph databases.
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Martin Trajkov
Business Development & Partner Sales Engineer at SWC
Currently based in Vienna, Austria, Martin is an experienced Business Development and Partner Sales engineer at Semantic Web Company. As part of the Partner Success Team, he is focused on building
strategic relationships and driving business development efforts with partners worldwide. Martin has also worked across multiple IT sales and marketing disciplines in both large and small companies. He has a diverse background in software sales, process management, digital transformation and semantic technologies.
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World Information Architecture Café
2023-08-03 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | online
Taxonomies help connect users to content and improve findability over keyword searches alone. As such, taxonomies should be created so that they are customized to the content and to the users. In this presentation, Heather Hedden addresses how to go about this. 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.
Click the button below for more information about this World Information Architecture Café series event and how to register.

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