PoolParty Semantic Suite

Information Architecture Conference 2021
2021-04-21 - 2021-04-23 | online
For more than 20 years the IA conference has been the preeminent event for practitioners and academics who confront the systemic challenge of creating and managing digital user interfaces and rich information environments. A dedicated team of volunteers from the IA community along with Kunverj produce the conference each year.
Connecting Users to Content: An Introduction to Taxonomy Design & Creation
by Heather Hedden, PoolParty TeamApril 21, 20212:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
This workshop meets 3 times

April 21, 2021 2 PM to 4 PM EDT
April 22, 2021 2 PM to 4 PM EDT
April 23, 2021 2 PM to 4 PM EDT

Taxonomies have evolved from classification systems to adaptable interactive tools to link users to desired content on websites, intranets, and web applications. Taxonomies are not the same as a website’s navigation and can do a lot more. Taxonomies can provide guiding categories of topics, suggested search terms, aspects for faceted search, or topics for sorting and filtering results. To be truly helpful, however, taxonomies need to be well designed to suit the users and use cases, be customized to the content, and conform to taxonomy best practices and standards so that they are easy and intuitive to use.
This workshop teaches taxonomy creation principles and addresses the issues of designing a taxonomy to serve users. It presents best practices in designing taxonomies, including the principles of wording of terms, incorporating synonyms, creating relationships between terms, and designing hierarchies and facets. Other topics include taxonomy project planning, sources for terms, and taxonomy testing. The workshop will also include practical exercises and access to taxonomy management software.
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Enterprise Data World 2021
2021-04-18 - 2021-04-23 | Enterprise Data World
We are proud sponsors of the 2021 Enterprise Data World Conference. This year we will be setting up a “virtual booth” where attendees can directly communicate with us and get their questions answered. Save 10% on your registration using the coupon code POOLPARTY10 during checkout. Hope to see you there!
More about the conference: For 25 years now, Enterprise Data World (EDW) has been recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on Data Management in the world, and this year’s event will continue our tradition to offer in-depth training opportunities for data-driven professionals from around the world. Registrants will be able to join us for over 100 live online instructor-led workshops, tutorials, product demos, case studies, and keynotes and learn from others’ experiences so they can implement dozens of actionable takeaways following the event.
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Webinar: The Semantic Content Hub
2021-04-14 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Vienna) | RECORDING AVAILABLE
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

The Semantic Content Hub

Transforming data hurdles into comprehensive knowledge discovery

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Speaker
Andreas Blumauer, CEO at Semantic Web Company

The Semantic Content Hub: Transforming data hurdles into comprehensive knowledge discovery

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. When an organization produces data that is hard to manage, what methodologies can be used to turn unstructured (i.e., noisy, cluttered, unclear) content into clean, fruitful knowledge?
In this on-demand webinar, CEO Andreas Blumauer will talk about the different semantic tools you can have under your belt to manage your unstructured data and reap the benefits of a comprehensive knowledge graph. Learn how intelligent content that is generated with help from semantic technologies can improve customer satisfaction, enable better business decision making, and grant extensive knowledge discovery.
Through introductory material and live demos, we will introduce you to semantic search and recommendation tools to “matchmake” internal HR profiles and connect employees together based on their skills and interests. You will become familiar with question and answering machines that can be used to generate structured search results from organic text, and how entity extraction can enable you to derive meaningful concepts from text analysis.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from an experienced semantic technology expert about how you can overcome the common roadblocks found in your unstructured data.

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The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics
2021-03-16 - 2021-03-19 | NY
On March 17th, 2021, Semantic Web Company (SWC) COO Helmut Nagy and SWC taxonomy, ontology, and knowledge graph expert Heather Hedden will host a two-part workshop titled “Building, enhancing, and integrating taxonomies” as part of the ENDORSE conference.
Here is a summary of the workshop submitted by its presenters:
Knowledge organization systems, and specifically controlled vocabularies (including taxonomies, thesauri, term lists, ontologies), play a key role in making content and data easier to find, whether within an organization or published externally. Knowledge organization systems are utilized in many ways in information management and retrieval: topic browsing, search support, discovery, filtering results, sorting results, curated content and alerts, content management workflows, data analysis, recommendations, etc. Many organizations already have various controlled vocabularies designed for different purposes but lack an enterprise-wide taxonomy, have taxonomies that are out of date, or have taxonomies that are under-utilized.
This workshop focuses on several basic methods to get started in either building a new taxonomy or in combining and enhancing existing controlled vocabularies.
The workshop’s first section is an introduction to knowledge organization systems with a focus on the suitability of different types for different purposes: term lists, name authorities, classification systems, hierarchical and faceted taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies. Standards (especially ISO 25964 and SKOS) will briefly be mentioned. Participants will be quizzed on which kind of knowledge organization system is suitable for different kinds of situations and for different kinds of concepts (subjects, names, etc.).
The next section, which is the focus of the workshop, addresses different methods for coming up with concepts in a knowledge organization system, whether as a new KOS or to further build out and enhance an existing one. Because knowledge organization systems connect users to content, they need to be designed to take into consideration the users’ needs and inputs and take into consideration the specific corpus of content. So, we will consider both users and content as sources for taxonomy concepts and their labels. Methods of obtaining inputs for concepts from users include brainstorming workshops, stakeholder and sample user interviews, search log analysis, and card sorting exercises. A brainstorming session is more suitable for participants from the same organization, so our workshop’s main interactive activity will be a collaborative card sorting exercise through an online tool. Methods of deriving concepts from content include a manual content audit, identifying concepts as a trained indexer would do, and automated term extraction. We will have one interactive exercise of manual content analysis for concept identification and then present a demo of a tool for term extraction from a large corpus of documents.
The final section of the workshop will briefly consider the issue of combining existing knowledge organization systems in overlapping subject areas. They can either be merged into one, if there is no business need to keep them distinct, or they can be kept separate and linked at the individual concept level. If there is considerable overlap, they may be “mapped”, which means the concepts are designated as equivalent or nearly equivalent, and one controlled vocabulary may be used for the other, such as one at the tagged back end and one at the retrieval front end. Sometimes controlled vocabularies, which do not have equivalent concepts but rather related concepts, are linked with other related-type relationships. Participants will learn when each method of merging, mapping, and linking are suitable and the methods involved.
This workshop is suitable for both those who are building new knowledge organization systems and those who need to integrate or enhance existing knowledge organization systems.
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Helmut Nagy
COO at Semantic Web Company

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Heather Hedden
Taxonomy Expert

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Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2021
2021-03-01 - 2021-03-03 | NY
We are sponsors of the Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2021. And wherever you are in the world, whether you’re a taxonomy beginner or a seasoned info pro, join TBC London for:

ESSENTIAL TIPS for managing your taxonomy
NEW APPROACHES to dealing with common issues like business buy-in and governance
LATEST TAXONOMY APPLICATIONS including blockchain, AI, and machine learning
HOW TO make the most of cutting-edge technologies and industry-leading software

Please listen to the talks of our CEO Andreas Blumauer and Data and Knowledge Engineer Heather Hedden (US Office, Semantic Web Company, Boston). Join us and share your experiences, network with us, and get incredible insight on Enterprise Knowledge Graphs at this one-of-a-kind event.

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Webinar: Improving Customer Satisfaction With Agile Taxonomy Management
2021-02-25 17:00 - 18:00 | RECORDING AVAILABLE
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Improving Customer Satisfaction With Agile Taxonomy Management

Respond to Customer Information Demand in Real-Time

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Speakers
Jaimie Chung, Product Manager at Insider Intelligence (formerly eMarketer) Heather Hedden, Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company

How Insider Intelligence uses the PoolParty Semantic Suite to for agile taxonomy management and respond to customer information demand in real-time

Insider Intelligence is on a mission to empower professionals with the data, insights, and analysis to make grounded decisions in a digital world. By bringing together agility and rigorous methodology, Insider Intelligence provides their clients with the clear and credible insights they need to act decisively.
To be competitive in their field, Insider Intelligence needs to deliver timely insights to its clients and keep track of the latest technological trends. But new trends often involve new and inconsistent names, and searching can be frustratingly ineffective. Taxonomies provide consistent naming and structure to help users find the information they need.
In this webinar, you will learn how Insider Intelligence uses the PoolParty Semantic Suite to empower business users to manage a centralized taxonomy and respond to customer information demand in real-time.
You will also learn how managing taxonomies in PoolParty can help companies reduce costs and manual labor, save time, and help teams collaborate in order to deliver better results and improve customer satisfaction.
Join our on-demand webinar and find out how the PoolParty Semantic Suite can help you centralize your organization’s taxonomy management and make it painless.
Find out how you can stop juggling spreadsheets, wasting precious time and resources. You will see how easy it can be to start managing taxonomies in one place with a solution that is easy to use and to integrate into your existing systems. Gain a competitive advantage and deliver timely insights with PoolParty.

Data-Centric Architecture Forum 2021
2021-02-01 - 2021-02-03 | NY
We are sponsors of the Data-Centric Architecture Forum 2021.
Meet us on Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 12:45 – 12:55 pm EST; 10:45 – 10:55 pm MST (virtual/online) for the vendor spotlight where our Director of Marketing will present PoolParty Semantic Suite.
Don’t miss the “Ontology Design by Enriching Taxonomies” working session on Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 2:15 – 3:45 pm EST; 12:15 – 1:45 pm MST (virtual/online) with two of our top knowledge engineers: Heather Hedden and Alexis Dimitriades.
Session Description: Data and the subsequent knowledge derived from information are valuable assets of an organization. What makes it especially valuable is if the data can be classified and linked in a knowledge graph to achieve better decisions, customer satisfaction, and knowledge discovery, by solving such problems as localized meaning, data silos, heterogeneous data sources, and divergent kinds of structured and unstructured data. Ontologies model and semantically link different kinds of data forming the basic structure of a knowledge graph.
There are different approaches to designing and creating ontologies, however, and the choice of which may depend on what taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems already exist in an organization, whether the focus is on only data or also other content, and what tools are available. This workshop addresses the approach of building an ontology as a semantic layer on top of existing taxonomies or other controlled vocabularies, thus semantically enriching and linking them, and then the ontology itself does not need to be large and complex. Practical issues or decision points in creating ontologies will also be covered, and there will be some participatory activities.

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