The ”O” Word: The Year of the Graph Newsletter: November 2019

How do you manage your enterprise data in order to keep track of it and be able to build and operate useful applications? This is a key question all data management systems are trying to address, and knowledge graphs, graph databases, and graph analytics are no different. What is different about knowledge graphs is that they may actually be the most elaborate and holistic way to manage your enterprise domain knowledge.

For people who have been into knowledge graphs or ontologies, as their original name was, this is old news. What is new is that more and more people today seem to be listening, rather than dismissing ontology as too complex, unrealistic, academic, etc. These last couple of months, we've seen a flurry of activity on all of these technologies. From organizational culture and adoption to events, research and tutorials, it's all here.

Graph Explosion and Consolidation. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: June 2019

With the knowledge graph space exploding on all accounts (interest, use cases, funding), centrifugal and centripetal forces are simultaneously at play. While the "wild, early days" of knowledge graph technology are gone, the 20 year anniversary of the Semantic Web is a good opportunity to reflect on what worked and what didn't and to move forward in a pragmatic way.

A testament to the fact that this space is booming: more offerings are available every day, the quality and quantity of knowledge sharing is rising to meet the demand, and at the same time we are starting to see consolidation — in vendors, models, and standards.