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HR Technology Conference
2021-09-28 - 2021-10-01 | Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, United States
With a primary focus on driving HR success through technology, the HR Technology Conference is intended for those looking to continuously optimize usage of current HR systems as well as those looking to buy. It’s where you’ll gain the insight needed to make critical HR system decisions that will fuel your business while supporting your organization’s unique needs now and in the future.
Meet Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer representing the PoolParty Team at the shared booth with our consulting partner Enterprise Knowledge. We look forward to seeing you there!
Heather will walk you through a PoolParty demo to help you find out how to implement enterprise knowledge graphs to achieve 360-degree views of employees to develop strategic HR. Check our webinar to learn more about Employee 360 or download the white paper Employee 360 – Create Meaningful Journeys.

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Data Con LA 2021
2021-09-17 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/Vienna)
Data Con LA features the most vibrant gathering of data and technology enthusiasts in Los Angeles, CA.
Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company, has been invited as a panelist in the “Structured Data in 2021 and Beyond” panel. Join her and the other panelists on Friday, September 17, 9:30 – 11:00 am PDT (12:30 – 2:00 EDT).
You will learn:

How does structured data power search?
What is the history of structured data?
What is coming down the pike for the future of structured data?
Whatever happened to federated search?
Best practices in enterprise and web search.

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Data-driven knowledge management with knowledge graphs
2021-09-15 16:00 - 17:00
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Data-driven knowledge management with knowledge graphs

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Speakers
Fredric Landqvist, Senior, Information Strategist & Researcher, TietoEvry/Findwise
Heather Hedden, Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company

In this on-demand webinar, we will go deeper into mixing search-driven and enterprise knowledge graph initiatives to support knowledge management in large Enterprises. This event is presented by TietoEvery/Findwise and PoolParty.

Knowledge networking challenges in large enterprises
New ways govern data with knowledge graphs
Tapping into the knowledge assets—enterprise vocabulary management
Enriching employee experience with search and knowledge graphs

In large, contemporary enterprises, the data landscape is extremely heterogeneous and it’s a daily challenge at the workplace to find knowledgeable peers and codified golden knowledge assets. Enacted data governance that makes sense of the corporate data assets will improve data quality and data management practices. With enterprise knowledge graphs come the capabilities to connect, enrich, augment and automate (AI, ML, NLP) the data fabric—akin to how you can automatically classify and tag content in large Microsoft 365 environments, or how enterprise information management processes clean up and transform data to solid data assets that allow for more robust analytics.

Speakers

Fredric Landqvist
Senior Information Architect, Findwise
Fredric works as a principal information strategist & researcher. He has extensive experience within knowledge management, information architecture and data governance and a passion for smart (AI) solutions with knowledge graphs and will share insights from health data & life science cases.
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Heather Hedden
Data and Knowledge Engineer with Semantic Web Company
Heather Hedden is a Data and Knowledge Engineer with Semantic Web Company Inc., vendor of PoolParty Semantic Suite software for developing taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic search applications. Heather has 25 years of experience in developing and managing taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems. She provides training in taxonomy creation and is author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist.
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Enterprise Data Management Demo Day
2021-09-15
Enterprise Data Management Demo Day is a live online event that showcases data-driven products, tools, and services from several vendors. Join DATAVERSITY and popular Data Management product vendors for as many as five live demonstrations and get answers to your toughest questions throughout the day. This online event might be your best opportunity to research, review, and make the best buying decisions for your organization.
Semantic Web Company COO, Helmut Nagy, will demonstrate a recommender engine from 8:00 am to 8:45 am PT. Make sure you are there!
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A Knowledge Graph Driven Recommender Engine
Abstract:
According to various studies, employees in knowledge-intensive industries spend >20% of their time searching for the right information. The right information might be the relevant document you are looking for, the right person to talk to, the right piece of equipment to use, etc. So relevance is key and ideally, you would want to describe what you are looking for and get back what best meets your expectations.
It is quite clear that no traditional search system can meet these expectations. But a recommender system built on a knowledge graph can do the trick. When you connect your business objects to the knowledge graph, each of those objects is given a semantic footprint. This footprint can be generated automatically, regardless of the type of object. It can be used in many cases to describe a document, a person, a device in more detail. It can be used to recommend similar objects or objects of a different type instead.
In this talk, Helmut Nagy will show how such a system is built and works in a real-world example.
Speaker Bio:
Since 2013, Helmut has been COO of the Semantic Web Company and is responsible for the design and implementation of all customer-oriented processes, together with the involved teams and team leads based on SWC’s business strategy. He is working as the senior consultant on several customer projects (industry and public administration) and participates in European research projects. Helmut is co-author of “The Knowledge Graph Cookbook“.
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SEMANTiCS Amsterdam 2021
2021-09-06 - 2021-09-09
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 16th edition will be hosted this year in Amsterdam.
As gold sponsors, we have a representative delegation giving talks, workshops and waiting for you at our PoolParty booth. Look at all the options you have:

Building recommender systems that workSession 1.7Building recommender systems that workSponsored talked by PoolParty
Monday, September 6, 2021 – 17:00 to 18:30 CEST
Speaker:Florian Bauer, Director of Solutions & Strategic Alliances at Semantic Web Company
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Managing inconsistencies in data processing for enterprise knowledge graphsSession 1.8Graph Data Management 1Monday, September 6, 2021 – 17:00 to 18:30 CEST
Speaker:Robert David, CTO at Semantic Web CompanyAlbin Ahmeti, Customer Support Manager, SWC
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Annotating Entities with Fine-Grained Types in Austrian Court DecisionsSession 2.8, Semantics in Legal TextsTuesday, September 7, 2021 – 16:30 to 17:30 CEST
Speakers:Semantic Web Company research team: Artem Revenko, Victor Mireles, Anna Breit, Sotirios Karampatakis and Christian Sageder from openlaws, Julian Moreno Schneider from DFKI
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Knowledge Engineering of Taxonomies, Thesauri, and OntologiesTutorial
Tuesday, September 7, 2021 – 09:00 to 12:30 CEST
Speaker: Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company
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NLP & DBpedia: Literature ReviewDBpedia DayThursday, September 9, 2021 – 14:00 CEST
Speakers:Semantic Web Company research team: Artem Revenko
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SMPTE+ event: Migrating Media & Entertainment into the Cloud: A Real-World Perspective
2021-08-31
The media & entertainment industry has moved far beyond the question of whether media workflows will move to the cloud. They already have done so. Though migrating to the cloud is a fast-developing field, this SMPTE+ event will bring together subject matter experts from across the media value chain to examine the issues, share their practical experiences, provide a snapshot of current status of migration, and give unique insights into where the industry is headed in this area.
Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company, will be speaking as a panelist about Convergence & Realignment on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM.
Media & Entertainment’s linear value chain has become more iterative. Business verticals are merging and data, digital, and broadcast groups are less separated. This session is intended to examine where cloud migration stands now, what advantages (or disadvantages) have emerged, and what new tools and technologies are involved? Live QA to follow.
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Webinar: Building recommender systems that work
2021-08-25 17:30 - 18:30 | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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Building Recommender Systems that Work

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Andreas Blumauer, CEO at Semantic Web Company

Recommender systems are widely used in e-commerce platforms, where users regularly receive unsuitable tips, because they are based on the principle ‘suggest more of the same’. In other words: I buy a couch and get recommended another couch the next time I’m on the website.
The clear problem in this case, is that the average consumer typically does not need a second couch once they’ve already purchased one. While humans can understand this next logical step, a machine recommender system cannot process any of this underlying contextual information so it does not really respond well to individual customer wishes.
As a result of these incompetencies, web store assistants, and recommender systems in knowledge-intensive business processes require different methodologies to provide employees and users with truly relevant information, suggestions, and ‘next best actions’ that are actually evaluated as helpful by the user. Using the same example: a stronger recommendation would mean that since I’ve bought a couch, I should next be recommended a coffee table to complete my living room. A recommender system powered by semantic AI has the capability to deliver these happy customer purchasing experiences.
In this on-demand webinar, we address possible use cases for recommender systems built on semantic AI, discuss scenarios from different industries (retail, manufacturing, software industry and pharma) and look at how recommender systems serve as building blocks to the broader concept of ‘Enterprise 360’.
Watch our webinar to understand the following questions:

How do recommender systems support the automatic generation of holistic and personalized views of business objects such as products, customers, or employees?
What are the concrete use cases for recommender systems and what are the benefits?
How are precise, explainable, controllable, and adaptive recommender systems built, and what role do ontologies and knowledge graphs play?

We show several live demos and sample applications to give you lots of ideas for using recommender systems in your own business.

Speaker

Andreas Blumauer
CEO at Semantic Web Company
Andreas is CEO and co-founder of the Semantic Web Company. He is the ‘product architect’ of PoolParty Semantic Suite and responsible for all sales and marketing activities of the company. He holds a degree in computer science and is a distinguished Semantic Web expert.
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Webinar: Taxonomy Management 101
2021-08-04 18:00 - 19:00 | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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Taxonomy Management 101

Discovering the Benefits of Taxonomies

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Speaker
Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company

Taxonomy Management 101
The uses and benefits of taxonomies are almost endless: search or browse on website, intranets, and in enterprise content management systems, sorting or filtering results, discovery of related information, content workflow management, visualization of topics, curated content in feeds or info boxes, recommendation systems, and question-answering systems. As taxonomies become more common for information management and retrieval in all kinds of organizations and in various applications, the task of creating new taxonomies from scratch is less needed than the task of managing existing taxonomies.
Do you want to learn how you can take advantage of some of these many features associated with taxonomies? Join our webinar ‘Taxonomy Management 101’ to hear all things about taxonomy management and how you can benefit from it.
Watch Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at the Semantic Web Company and author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist, cover various aspects of taxonomy management, including:

Regular taxonomy maintenance
Taxonomy governance and documentation
Management of taxonomy tagging
Taxonomy integration with end-user applications (including semantic search and recommender systems)
Periodic taxonomy review and revision
Various methods of extending a taxonomy (including linking taxonomies and adding a semantic ontology layer).

An understanding of the taxonomy management tasks makes it easier for an organization to determine resources of subject matter experts, contract taxonomists, a staff taxonomist, or a taxonomy consultant. Learning from the perspective of a taxonomy expert, you can use this webinar to explore the many benefits of a dedicated taxonomy/thesaurus management tool.

Speaker

Heather Hedden
Data and Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company
Heather Hedden is a Data and Knowledge Engineer with Semantic Web Company Inc., vendor of PoolParty Semantic Suite software for developing taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic search applications.
Heather has 25 years of experience in developing and managing taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems for various organizations and applications, both as an employee and as a consultant. She provides training in taxonomy creation and is author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist.
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Special Libraries Association - Annual Conference 2021
2021-08-03 - 2021-08-31 | online
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.
PoolParty Team is represented by Heather Hedden with an on-demand talk:
Using Semantic Resources to Enrich Content Services
Abstract:
Let’s face it – without structure, content management systems and other repositories can quickly go from sharing content to burying content. How do you tackle this challenge and capitalize on the opportunity it represents without feeling like you are trying to boil the ocean? By using semantic resources like taxonomies and ontologies! This session will present lessons learned from experience and give you actual steps for increasing the use of semantic resources in your content platforms.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:

Understand the link between enterprise content and controlled semantic resources.
Evaluate semantic resources and the effort involved in implementation and maintenance.
Discuss how other organizations use similar tools to address content management challenges.

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Webinar: The Art of Developing Valuable Employee Journeys
2021-07-13 18:00 - 19:00 | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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The Art of Developing Valuable Employee Journeys

Unite your data with 360-degree views

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Speakers
Laurie Gray, RGPAmber Simpson, Walmart US LearningFrançois Violette, JobTeaserHeather Hedden, Semantic Web CompanyJoseph Hilger, Enterprise Knowledge

In today’s dynamic work environment where spaces are changing from remote to hybrid to in-office, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to navigate and optimize the employee journey for better business value. Both in early acquisition stages and in later skill development, success for many organizations is largely dependent on being able to understand different business aspects from all sides.
An emerging approach called Enterprise 360 refers to this exact understanding – where organizations can implement enterprise knowledge graphs to achieve 360-degree views of business relating to customers, employees, products, and services. Critical within this 360 world of integrated data, is Employee 360, which offers a connected view of all aspects of an organization’s most valued asset, their people, including each employee’s complete background and work experience, recruiting, onboarding, learning and development, retention, and separation.
Employee 360 aims to understand each of these aspects while answering some of the following crucial questions:

What if you had the insight and intelligence to train or hire employees to fill a future gap?
What if your employees could assemble a customized curriculum of flexible learning in order to perform better and attain their career goals?
What if you could find patterns in what characteristics your most successful employees share in order to more effectively target your recruiting and development efforts?

Watch our webinar where we invite our very exciting panel of guest speakers to see how Employee 360 is helping various organizations foster a positive employee journey that directly impacts both employee and business outcomes alike. Develop intelligent HR processes with knowledge graphs powered by 360-degree views!

Speakers

Laurie Gray
Vice President, Customer Experience

Laurie Gray is an experienced leader with deep expertise in successful user-centered product design, development and launch. She consistently helps individuals and teams think and work differently in pursuit of innovation. She blends her training in psychology, education, and agile approaches and combines it with deep expertise in user experience consulting, technical knowledge, business acumen and ability to motivate people to bring novel, successful and human-centered approaches to the creation and launch of new products.

Amber Simpson
Sr. Mgr Learning Content & Design - Knowledge Management

Amber Simpson has more than 28 years of experience in Learning & Development including Facilitation, Instructional Design, Learning Architecture, and Learning Technology. She and her team currently support the learning knowledge management efforts for Walmart US Learning, the biggest corporate learning organization in the US supporting all 1.6 million Walmart US associates. During Amber’s tenure, she has spearheaded the design and creation of a learning metadata management solution that creates a mapping standard against learning objectives and competencies, thus reducing redundancies, identifying learning gaps, and enabling search and recommended content.

François Violette
Senior Information Architect

François Violette is a seasoned information professional with more than 10 years of experience in technical writing, content, and systems design. François has a track record of helping rising organizations harness the complex challenges of content and lead multi-disciplinary teams to success. He teaches ergonomics applied to content design at the University of Paris.

Heather Hedden
Data and Knowledge Engineer

Heather Hedden is a Data and Knowledge Engineer with Semantic Web Company Inc., vendor of PoolParty Semantic Suite software for developing taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic search applications. Heather has 25 years of experience in developing and managing taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems for various organizations and applications, both as an employee and as a consultant. She provides training in taxonomy creation and is author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist.

Joseph Hilger
COO at Enterprise Knowledge, LLC
A senior technologist with expertise in search, content management, and unstructured information. He focuses on creating solutions that have a meaningful impact for his clients.

Webinar: Have a Conversation with your Data using Knowledge Graphs & AI
2021-06-30 16:00 - 17:00 | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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Have a Conversation with your Data using Knowledge Graphs & AI

Question-answering (QA) systems

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Speakers
Dennis Diefenbachn, CEO, The QA Company
Ioanna Lytra, Data & Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company

Have a Conversation with your Data using Knowledge Graphs & AI

“Alexa, how’s the weather today?” or “Hey Siri, how many grams are in a cup?” are some of the most asked questions to these well-loved virtual assistants, which can respond in “normal” dialogue despite being machines. The power of this dialogue is the fact that it’s built on advanced machine learning technologies, such as question-answering systems, to process and understand verbal questions and respond in relevant natural language.
In the business world, a solution that combines natural language processing (NLP) techniques with semantic knowledge graphs is proving to be extremely effective. The knowledge graphs, which serve as a malleable and highly intelligent representation of data, can be accessed via NLP that interprets the user’s request and converts it into a response. This technology is already widely adopted in the business environment, where the most obvious added value of a conversational AI platform is improving the customer experience.
Do you want to learn how you can build your own question-answering systems as powerful as Siri or Alexa? Join our webinar led by Data & Knowledge Engineer, Ioanna Lytra, and special guest The QA Company CEO Dennis Diefenbach, to hear how it works with PoolParty Semantic Suite and QAnswer.
In our joint venture, PoolParty has coupled its rich collection of knowledge graph tools with QAnswer’s advanced NLP technologies to provide this enterprise solution. The webinar will touch on the question-answering system’s various use cases in the business environment, such as intelligent search platforms for HR recruitment, product documentation help portals, end-user information retrieval, etc.
Along with the use cases, the highlights of this webinar include:

The main pitfalls of current QA systems
The methodology for building, deploying and using natural language interfaces

Use this webinar to see a strong partnership at work! Learn how you can improve the customer experience and lessen your internal workload with question-answering systems powered by NLP and enterprise knowledge graphs.

Webinar: Boost your Customer Experience in AEM with Auto Tagging
2021-05-25 17:00 - 18:00 | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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Boost your Customer Experience in AEM with Auto Tagging

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Speakers
Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company
Maura Moran, Senior Content Consultant, Mekon Ltd

Boost your Customer Experience in AEM with Auto Tagging

Tagging your content is essential for supporting the sophisticated personalization, search and navigation features that benefit your users. But manually tagging a large amount of content can be time-consuming and inconsistent, leading to poor results. Join our free webinar to find out how you can automatically tag content in Adobe Experience Manager easily and cost-effectively, improving the search and personalization feature of your websites.
In this on-demand webinar, you will learn how Mekon’s Semantic Booster integrates AEM with the PoolParty Semantic Suite, allowing you to take advantage of world-class text-mining capabilities to auto tag your sites. PoolParty is unique because it combines knowledge graphs, machine learning, natural language processing, and graph algorithms to better analyze text by not only processing words but understanding the underlying concepts and their context. As a result, your information professionals are able to create high-quality metadata that can deliver personalized, meaningful content to your users.
Hear from Maura Moran of Mekon and Heather Hedden of Semantic Web Company on the following topics:

Integrate PoolParty with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), using the Semantic Booster for AEM [DEMO]
Auto tag AEM Sites against concepts, using mutli-lingual terms and synonyms
Manage the concepts in an enterprise system, using a specialist environment that can connect to other systems via API
Improve customer experiences through improved personalization and findability

Maura Moran
Senior Content Consultant at Mekon Ltd.
Maura has over 20 years’ experience helping organizations drive value through improved information architecture, taxonomy and content management systems and tools. She has a particularly strong background in commercial publishing, having worked with many of the world’s premier publishing firms including Pearson, Elsevier, and Oxford University Press.
Maura understands that changing an organization’s working practices can be a messy business, so she balances finding the right technical solution with a focus on practical implementation, including a solid approach to change management and content governance.
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Heather Hedden
Data and Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company
Heather Hedden is a Data and Knowledge Engineer with Semantic Web Company Inc., vendor of PoolParty Semantic Suite software for developing taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic search applications.
Heather has 25 years of experience in developing and managing taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems for various organizations and applications, both as an employee and as a consultant. She provides training in taxonomy creation and is author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist.
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Webinar: The Key To Successful Digital Transformation
2021-05-19 17:00 - 18:00 | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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The Key to a Successful Digital Transformation

Graph-based Enterprise 360

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Speakers
Andreas Blumauer, CEO Semantic Web CompanyZach Wahl, CEO Enterprise Knowledge Inc. Florian Bauer, CSO Semantic Web Company

The Key to a Successful Digital Transformation:
Graph-based Enterprise 360

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. Building a holistic digital twin of your business will not only help you to create better customer experiences and efficient digital workplaces, but will also aid in bringing knowledge discovery to the next level through personalized information and gaining better insights for more accurate decision making.
Watch our webinar and learn how Enterprise 360 helps to better address individual information needs and contexts, providing relevant information about products, markets, customers, as well as related knowledge and learning content.
The methods and technologies underlying Enterprise 360 initiatives are based on knowledge graphs. With the help of graphs, information from all data silos can be linked together, and this can be done in an efficient and agile manner without having to drastically change existing systems and workflows. Knowledge graphs span an umbrella over all data and reduce the semantic gaps between all the languages and data models that HR (Employee 360), product managers (Product 360), sales teams (Customer 360) and marketing (Market 360) develop and use over time.
Register now and learn how you can use knowledge graphs to create 360-views of any process or business object.
This 1-hour webinar will include a presentation of Enterprise 360 by Andreas Blumauer, CEO Semantic Web Company, followed by a panel discussion with Zach Wahl, CEO Enterprise Knowledge, and Florian Bauer, CSO Semantic Web Company.

Andreas Blumauer
CEO at Semantic Web Company
Andreas is CEO and co-founder of the Semantic Web Company. He is the ‘product architect’ of PoolParty Semantic Suite and responsible for all sales and marketing activities of the company. He holds a degree in computer science and is a distinguished Semantic Web expert.
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Florian Bauer
CSO at Semantic Web Company
Florian Bauer is currently Director of Solutions & Strategic Alliances at the Semantic Web Company (SWC). Before joining SWC, he was Managing Director of the Impact Hub Vienna (a co-working space dedicated to support social entrepreneurs) and COO & Deputy Director General of an international non-governmental organisation (REEEP) for more than 10 years.
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Zach Wahl
CEO at Enterprise Knowledge
Expert in knowledge and information management strategy, content strategy, and taxonomy design. Zach is passionate about forming and supporting high-functioning teams and facilitating results-focused outcomes with his clients.
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The Knowledge Graph Conference 2021
2021-05-03 15:00 - 18:30
Taxonomy Tutorial with Semantic Web Company
Foundation for a Knowledge Graph: Taxonomy Design Best Practices
How does a Data & Knowledge Engineer who has been working with taxonomies for over 25 years create and design a taxonomy? Learn how to set up and maintain a taxonomy with Semantic Web Company’s Heather Hedden at the Knowledge Graph Conference!
While taxonomies are central to a powerful knowledge organization system, one that is made without proper training or understanding can yield poor results. Don’t waste the taxonomy’s potential by guessing your way through – hear directly from a taxonomy expert and benefit from the following takeaways:

Understand the diversity of knowledge organization systems and their specific business cases
Gather helpful resources for developing a taxonomy
Develop concepts and labels that best serve users
Construct taxonomy relationships according to best practices and standards
Leverage the relationship between a well-developed taxonomy and ontology

This tutorial is meant for all users, so you don’t have to be experienced with taxonomy construction to keep up! Along with extensive presentation on the taxonomy and its uses, this 4-hour tutorial will consist of interactive audience activities. Join Heather to learn the fundamentals of a successful taxonomy.
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Heather Hedden
Data & Knowledge Engineer
Heather Hedden is a Data and Knowledge Engineer with Semantic Web Company Inc., vendor of PoolParty Semantic Suite software for developing taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic search applications.
Heather has 25 years of experience in developing and managing taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems for various organizations and applications, both as an employee and as a consultant. She provides training in taxonomy creation and is author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist.
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Webinar: From Taxonomies to Recommendation Systems
2021-04-29 18:00 - 19:00 | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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From Taxonomies to Recommendation Systems

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Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer, Semantic Web Company

From Taxonomies to Recommendation Systems

According to Harvard Business Review, recommendation engines are the single most important distinction between “born digital” companies and legacy companies. While most organizations produce large amounts of data, very few are able to use that information to generate valuable insights. This is where recommender systems come into play, as they can provide the most relevant content to their users.
In this on-demand webinar, you will learn how to build your own taxonomy-based recommendation system from scratch. The taxonomy is a crucial aspect to the recommendation system, requiring proper creation and management. This approach will allow you to build recommendation engines that you can understand and better maintain than by using machine learning alone.
Watch Heather Hedden, Data and Knowledge Engineer at the Semantic Web Company and author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist, to go through the steps needed to build a recommendation system using the PoolParty Semantic Suite.
Heather will explain how the HR Recommender works, a PoolParty “matchmaking” tool designed to connect employees with their coworkers, show them relevant projects, and let them know about interesting career opportunities within their organization.
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Heather Hedden
Heather Hedden is a Data and Knowledge Engineer with Semantic Web Company Inc., vendor of PoolParty Semantic Suite software for developing taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic search applications.
Heather has 25 years of experience in developing and managing taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems for various organizations and applications, both as an employee and as a consultant. She provides training in taxonomy creation and is author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist.

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.
Click the button below to visit EDW’s event page and get more information about the program, speakers, tracks, etc. Don’t forget to save 10% on your registration using the coupon code POOLPARTY10 when checking out.

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Webinar: The Semantic Content Hub
2021-04-14 18:00 - 19:00 | RECORDING AVAILABLE
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The Semantic Content Hub

Transforming data hurdles into comprehensive knowledge discovery

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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
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
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
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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