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As AI unleashes a host of new tools and agents to help engineers build knowledge graphs, engineers like François Scharffe are harnessing these new powers to automate their work. buff.ly/CysIGbX

With their ability to separate transient data from #KnowledgeGraph facts, you could call Eric Little's #SuperDomains the original #ContextGraph. Listen in for more KG insights, including Eric's rigorous philosophical approach to #ontology practice knowledgegraphinsights.com/eric-little/

In her new book, #Ontology Pipeline: A Framework for Knowledge Engineering, @jtalisman.bsky.social repurposes the #semanticSpectrum as a way to organize the process of developing enterprise #knowledgeGraphs. A very edifying conversation - check it out. knowledgegraphinsights.com/jessica-2/

Most conversations about taming generative AI focus on guardrails bolted on after the fact. Dougal Watt takes a different approach: generate the meaning first, as an ontology, and let everything else — agents, APIs, knowledge graphs — flow from that. knowledgegraphinsights.com/dougal-watt/

Random question for the possibly-zero number of friends whose interests overlap in data science and far-right religious groups like NAR. …Is there anyone out there who'd be interested in a normalized corpus of ~30 years of "prophetic messages" that were published to a NAR audience of ~250,000?

With a career that spans academic study as a computational neuroscientist and his current work creating enterprise systems that ground LLMs in #ontology backed #knowledgeGraphs, Yann Le Franc is a living embodiment of #neurosymbolicAI. knowledgegraphinsights.com/yann-le-franc/

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As the #Cyc project winds down, one of its main contributors, @benrode.bsky.social, is trying to migrate its #ontology to RDF, an ambitious project, much like Cyc. We tried to focus on the Cyc>RDF project, but there was just too much good #AIhistory to share. knowledgegraphinsights.com/ben-rode/

And @doctorow.pluralistic.net strikes again

Rob Hanna and Lance Cummings explore how #DITA #informationTyping clarifies writing for human readers, and have discovered in the process that those same structural principles help AI deliver better results. A very edifying conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too. ellessmedia.com/csi/info-typ...

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Recent slide deck "Is the Semantic Web Vision Still Relevant?" from @jahendler.bsky.social and Ora Lassila is really good. www.slideshare.net/slideshow/is...

In urgent need of funds. If you know of anyone looking for contract/freelance web development work please send them my way! I specialize in accessibility, design systems, & documentation. Open to full stack as well! Email: inquiries@semanticfish.com Website: semanticfish.com

Me in 2006: This Sci Fi book is stupid! How would a society just forget how to do sophisticated and advanced thinking? Me in 2026: ok yeah fair enough

Lulit Tesfaye improves companies' AI capabilities with a #semanticLayer that puts precious knowledge assets in a #context that machines can actually work with. A crucial part of that context is the interoperability that standards like #RDF enable. knowledgegraphinsights.com/lulit-tesfaye/

This anthology is an international story of professional resilience and technical brilliance. We are excited to bring these diverse voices together in one volume. Will yours be one of them? Submit here: forms.gle/jw5AZ4nBtTKT... #WomenInEngineering #Professionalism #STEMWomen

Random question: does anyone here know anyone in San Francisco/Bay Area who does MacBook mods or repairs? I want to do some MacBook Neo modding and am a bit freaked out to do it myself.

Giancarlo Guizzardi advances the fields of #semantics, #ontology, and #conceptualModeling with his work on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO), the OntoUML pattern language, and #explainableAI. Fun conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too. knowledgegraphinsights.com/giancarlo-gu...

Ora Lassila and @ktk.netlabs.org lead the W3C working group that is tackling the #RDF reification problem. RDF 1.2 introduces the reifier, which lets you annotate individual graph relationships with provenance, confidence, and source. knowledgegraphinsights.com/rdf12/

Long before Foundation Capital published their "trillion dollar opportunity" article about them, @trustspooky.bsky.social had been building a platform for #contextGraphs, aiming to ground probabilistic AI systems in a reliable knowledge system. knowledgegraphinsights.com/daniel-davis/

“Give your agent legs” is a wild way to say: “we hired a guy, and he has a backpack” Congratulations, you invented couriers

Best known as a #knowledgeGraph and #SHACL expert, @veronahe.bsky.social also connects #dataEngineering, #informationArchitecture, and #ontology practices via her consulting, teaching, and speaking. A fun conversation with an industry legend - hope you enjoy it as much as we did. buff.ly/YV5vFMW

I've been using it happily for years now, but it's only today that I need to cite something which is "forthcoming," and when I use CSL Variable: Status as suggested here www.zotero.org/support/kb/i... It's not taken up. Any ideas?

No one is better than @joereis.bsky.social at dismantling tech industry hype, like the current "context" craze. This was a fun and edifying and broad-ranging conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too. knowledgegraphinsights.com/joe-reis/

Few people have advanced the field of #contentDesign as much as Melanie Seibert. She's been designing content experiences and managing design teams for more than 25 years. She recently captured her best insights in a new book, "Managing Content Design Teams." ellessmedia.com/csi/melanie-...

Using time-tested #knowledgeGraph and #ontology design patterns, Robert Sanderson helps scholars and the general public access information about — and make connections across — millions of unique items in Yale's #culturalHeritage collections knowledgegraphinsights.com/rob-sanderson/

Human in the loop 😀

Zeiss' Service Copilot #agenticAI system includes #LLMs, but Max Gärber says that it's the system's solid #knowledgeGraph and metadata foundations that make it perform so well. An instructive and actionable conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too. knowledgegraphinsights.com/max-gaerber/

Tech is only as valuable as the problem it solves. 🤯 I joined @larry.bsky.social to share why we use a Neuro-Symbolic approach to solve narrow business problems with precision. Stop guessing; start knowing. 🎧 Listen: youtu.be/qVJW6AXwj88?... #EidenAI #NeuroSymbolicAI #KnowledgeGraphs

The complementary nature of #knowledgeGraphs and #LLMs is now clear and long-time knowledge engineering professionals like @unlockdatawithq.bsky.social are combining them in hybrid #neurosymbolicAI systems. Lots of pragmatic advice in this conversation. knowledgegraphinsights.com/quentin-reul/

OK, so all is ready now. 📢[[Bluesky]] people, follow bsky.app/profile/anag... and start contributing to this wonderful [[knowledge graph]] commons. All it takes is adding a pair of square brackets around key words and phrases in your posts.

25 years ago, @jahendler.bsky.social, web inventor @timbl.bsky.social, and early #AIagent expert Ora Lassila set out their #semanticWeb vision in Scientific American. Listen in on this fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the origins of their work. knowledgegraphinsights.com/jim-hendler/

Brad Bolliger came to #knowledgeGraphs via enterprise system design and data analytics. That background informs their pragmatic approach to the use of semantic technology that facilitates information exchange across government agencies. knowledgegraphinsights.com/brad-bolliger/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

stop letting venture capitalists set the agenda.

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

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