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Our blog strives to deliver content, ideas & inspiration to guide & support you on your journey into the world of Knowledge Graphs

The importance of the semantic knowledge graph

Written by Sebastian Schmidt, Pauline Leoncio on 13 July 2023. Posted in Semantic Knowledge Modeling

Reading time: 9 minutes

This article is the first in a series of two where we discuss our perspective on what is considered a semantic knowledge graph, why it's important, and share how they can drive your enterprise goals forward.

The composable enterprise powered by metaphactory

Written by Ademar Crotti, Simon Scerri, Irina Schmidt on 31 May 2023. Posted in Application Building

Reading time: 8 minutes

In this blog post, we discuss metaphactory’s app mechanism that supports the composable enterprise approach and look at the following: the components included in an app, the development-staging-production lifecycle of an app, the architecture of an app and an app example.

SSO and Identity Management with metaphactory

Written by Wolfgang Schell, Andreas Schwarte on 29 November 2022. Posted in Security

Reading time: 7 - 13 minutes

In a previous blog post we provided a high-level overview on security-related topics for using metaphactory in an enterprise environment. This post will dive deeper into authentication and authorization using single sign-on and also cover how the authentication process can be integrated with databases or external services such as third-party REST endpoints.

Connecting the best of both worlds: ontologies and vocabularies in metaphactory

Written by Johannes Trame, Irina Schmidt on 24 October 2022. Posted in Semantic Knowledge Modeling

Reading time: 6 - 12 minutes

The terms "ontology" and "vocabulary" are often used interchangeably. However, more often than not, this leads to confusion among customers who want to semantically model their domain and results in questions about whether there is in fact a distinction between the two and whether both are needed to implement a knowledge graph.

The meta-layers that these terms describe have been captured by different standards (OWL and SKOS respectively) and we at metaphacts believe that there is value in treating both as individual but complementary assets in their own right.

Security best practices with metaphactory

Written by Wolfgang Schell, Andreas Schwarte on 28 July 2022. Posted in Security

Reading time: 7 - 13 minutes

For many of our customers, metaphactory is a key component of their data landscape: their knowledge graph ties together various data silos, provides a semantic access layer based on semantic models, and becomes one of the key systems to support decisions and processes from research to sales.

Keeping all involved systems up and running is a big task that requires many different skills. Besides the operational perspective of working with infrastructure, development, and deployment processes, security plays a growing part in this story.