metaphacts Blog
Our blog strives to deliver content, ideas & inspiration to guide & support you on your journey into the world of Knowledge Graphs
Building a Knowledge Graph Application is easier than ever with metaphactory’s intuitive wizards
Reading time: 5 - 10 minutes
Many enterprises have identified Knowledge Graphs as the foundation for unlocking the value of their data assets, easing knowledge discovery and surfacing previously unknown insights and relations in their data. But while the benefits of Knowledge Graphs have become clear, the road to implementation has often been long and complex. Success in making these benefits tangible to the actual business users who interact with and rely on this data on a daily basis has required the involvement of seasoned knowledge graph experts.
In this blog post, we provide an introduction into metaphactory's intuitive and interactive wizards which support application engineers in quickly and visually setting up and configuring search and authoring interfaces that cater to specific end-user information needs. The wizards (introduced recently with the metaphactory 4.2 release ) are one of the pillars of metaphactory's low-code approach for building knowledge graph applications. They allow application engineers to focus entirely on translating end-user information needs into intuitive, model-driven interfaces without getting caught up in the technical details of the semantic technologies stack.
Searching with metaphactory - An Overview
Reading time: 6 - 12 minutes
Extracting meaningful and actionable insights from data is only possible if data is easily and intuitively accessible to and searchable for users. But as data accumulates, finding the right bit of information becomes challenging.
Knowledge Graphs have proven extremely powerful in surfacing previously unknown insights and relations in the data. They enable unprecedented query expressiveness and allow to make all instance data and its related metadata searchable, accessible and shareable.
metaphactory is an excellent example of leveraging Knowledge Graphs to bring together information distributed across siloed sources and departments, ultimately empowering end users to unlock the value of data, especially when it comes to search.
This blog post provides an overview of the metaphactory search components. To make the experience as concrete as possible, we provide examples using the most prominent publicly available knowledge graph: Wikidata. For that purpose, we are hosting an instance of our metaphactory platform on top of Wikidata for you to experience. The specific implementations described in this post are based on examples from the Life Sciences domain, but can be adjusted to match information needs across other usage scenarios or verticals.
[Citation needed]: provenance with RDF-star
Reading time: 7 - 13 minutes
In any Knowledge Graph-based project, keeping track of where data comes from is important. When you know the source of your facts or assertions, you can contextualize those facts: how relevant is assertion X to my current research, is it from a source that I personally trust, and if I have two conflicting views how can I decide which source to go with? Apart from issues of trust and confidence, tracking the source also can serve more mundane goals, such as knowledge graph maintenance: source X has published a new edition of their data set, so we need to replace the relevant data in our own Knowledge Graph, and so on.
Keeping track of the source of data is often referred to as provenance. In this blog post, we will look at provenance tracking in RDF Knowledge Graphs using the Wikidata dataset as an example, and we will look at how RDF-star and SPARQL-star, two new community efforts to extend the RDF model, can make this task easier.
Visual Ontology Modeling for Domain Experts and Business Users with metaphactory
Reading time: 4 - 8 minutes
In my previous blog post on building Knowledge Graph-driven, FAIR Data platforms I discussed the importance of data and data-driven decisions, processes and tools in accelerating digital transformation. Knowledge Graphs have revolutionized the way data can be accessed and used, and have helped enterprises overcome the challenges posed by distributed silos where information is available to limited audiences, in heterogeneous formats, and represented according to different models. They have led to great advances in terms of data integration, interoperability and accessibility, and have allowed companies to tap into the full potential of their data assets and transform data into valuable and actionable knowledge.
A Knowledge Graph for the Agri-Food Sector
Reading time: 7 - 13 minutes
Raul Palma leads the data analytics and semantics department at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), where he coordinates the R&D activities and the center’s participation in various EU projects around these topics. In this guest post for the metaphacts blog, Raul explains how knowledge graph technology can address data integration challenges in the agri-food sector, showcasing it through a few use cases. He describes how he leveraged metaphactory to build a domain-specific application - FOODIE - that delivers intuitive access to distributed, heterogeneous data sources and allows end users to extract meaningful insights.
FOODIE is an agriculture knowledge hub delivered as a Web application built on top of metaphactory Knowledge Graph platform. The application enables an integrated view and access over multiple datasets which have been collected from various and heterogeneous sources relevant to the agriculture sector, transformed, and published as Linked Data / in a Knowledge Graph.