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This blog post introduces metaphactory's vocabulary management features, which extend the platform's knowledge modeling capabilities and support knowledge graph experts, domain experts and business users in creating and editing SKOS vocabularies to capture business-relevant terms. We'll start out by defining what vocabularies are and looking at the use cases they can serve. Then, we'll look at specific vocabulary management features supported in metapahctory. Finally, we'll look at a specific use case and integrate an existing thesaurus into metaphactory and use the platform's semantic structured search component to explore terms and to connect data through relations between entities.
Timely access to consumable, contextual, and actionable knowledge is crucial for any step in the decision-making process and the key enabler of decision intelligence. However, decision makers and decision support systems are still faced with the everlasting challenge that data relevant to and required for addressing their specific information needs is stored in distributed and database- or application-specific silos.
Written by Andreas Schwarte on . Posted in Federation
(Reading time: 6 - 12 minutes)
With metaphactory, we serve customers of various sizes and across multiple industries, but no matter whether we're talking about a clinical trial scoping or a bill of materials use case, customers are looking for solutions to address hybrid information needs. That means that end users usually have questions or information needs that are not limited to one single data source or just RDF graph data, but involve simultaneously dealing with a multitude of data sources, a multitude of data modalities and a multitude of data processing techniques.
Written by Sebastian Schmidt on . Posted in Use Cases
(Reading time: 6 - 11 minutes)
This article was co-written by Todor Primov (Ontotext).
In our previous post, we covered the basics of how the Ontotext and metaphacts joint solution based on GraphDB and metaphactory helps customers accelerate their knowledge graph journey and generate value from it in a matter of days.
This post looks at a specific clinical trial scoping example, powered by a knowledge graph that we have built for the EU funded project FROCKG, where both Ontotext and metaphacts are partners. It demonstrates how GraphDB and metaphactory work together and how you can employ the platform's intuitive and out-of-the-box search, visualization and authoring components to empower end users to consume data from your knowledge graph.
Written by Florian Kräutli on . Posted in Use Cases
(Reading time: 8 - 15 minutes)
This article is co-authored by Florian Kräutli of SARI and Wolfgang Schell and Irina Schmidt of metaphacts.
Publishing FAIR data in the humanities sector
Reference data is a crucial element of data curation in the cultural heritage and humanities sector. Using reference data brings multiple benefits, such as consistent cataloguing, easier lookup and interaction with the data, or compatibility with other data collections that use the same reference data. Overall, the use of reference data can support the publication of FAIR data - data that is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.
In museum collection management, for example, various thesauri can be used as reference data to ensure the accurate and consistent cataloguing of items in a controlled manner and according to specific terminologies. Thesauri exist for various areas of expertise. One example is the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus® (AAT) which describes the different types of items of art, architecture and material culture, such as "cathedral" as a type of religious building. Authority data has also been published to support the unique identification of specific entities such as persons, organizations, or places, for example, "Cologne cathedral" as a specific instance of the type "cathedral". Such authority data sources include The Integrated Authority File (GND) or the Union List of Artist Names® Online (ULAN) and are specifically important for disambiguating over entities with the same name, e.g., Boston, the town in the UK, and Boston, the city in the USA.
Digital humanities projects often combine several research directions and use materials that cover multiple disciplinary areas. This makes the implementation of reference data difficult, as several reference data sources need to be used to cover all aspects and facets of a project. Moreover, technical access to reference data is inconsistent, with systems using different interfaces and APIs, which makes integration challenging.
