Triples, Named Entity Recognition and All that Jazz
"Okay, Knowledge navigator (wink, wink, to Apple's concept from 1987)," I imagined saying while I preparing this edition of the newsletter about Content and Knowledge Graphs, "play some Chet Baker, and then give me a musician he was influenced by and also possibly played with." "No problem!", said the system, as it was able to acces the
Swirling concepts in the vortext of sense-making and content creation
Preparing for my "Honey, I shrunk the Cat with Metadata" slide for a NEXT MBA upcoming lecture about data and dialogues, part of a Digital marketing track (thanks Gennady Polonsky for inviting me, and more about it soon), I found a beautiful way of seeing metadata in a diagram by Paul Otlet. I found a beautiful way
Open Letter To My Students 2025: Stay Statistically Improbable
Dear students, I could have easily written a prompt to generate this letter with ChatGPT but chose not to. I didn’t want to deprive myself from learning, making mistakes, accruing semantic capital and most importantly the pleasure of linguistic action and the various blisses of language. What is semantic capital, you would ask? Semantic capital, as defined by
The Archetypal UX Rationale Behind Content Knowledge Graphs
No talk about content, knowledge graphs and Linked data for rich user experiences, can do without the amazing Mike Atherton. If a content knowledge graph is the "How?" of radical user-centricity when it comes to knowledge and user experiences, then the idea of websites, driven by Linked Data and the Web as your CMS, are its
When Content Strategy Met The Semantic Web: Wolfram Leitner’s Work On Elevate Festival Media Archive
In a recent podcast with Joe Hiltzer of EK on the merger between Ontotext and Semantic Web company - passionate pioneers in the field of knowledge graphs and semantic technologies (https://open.spotify.com/episode/2f4VFlyABDvE3joQqbmeXm ), asked about what’s next in the field of knowledge graphs built with semantic technology and AI, Andreas Blumaer was laconic and determined: "We need
Don’t Make Me Metadata. All I Want Is Text.
Thinking about the future of text, I often think about communication on the Web. And about the metacommunication that happens in-between its lines of human and machine-readable code. And about the delayed action which any written medium, the Web’s hypertext even more so, breeds. And while thinking about text on the Web I always end up switching
Why Eat Dog Food When We Can All Drink Semantic Web Champagne
Data Language are amazing! And how could they not be? With people like Silver Oliver - Head of Information Architecture, interconnecting media with graph data since BBC Olympics (see https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/content-graphs-the-box-set-at-kgc-2023/257799124, Paul Wilton - Co-founder and Managing Director at Data Language, among all else -one of the contributors Storyline Ontology An ontology to represent News Storylines (see
Strategic Content Work, Domain Models and a bit of RDF: A Dialogue With Larry Swanson
Working with content to connect people, and ideas is hard, takes time, resources, perseverance and above all devotion to staying focused on the very essence of connection: authentic experiences. This is what Larry Swanson is after: authentic human-generated content and experiences. Working as a content architect, a content modeler, a UX architect, or an information architect, in
Embodying and Enacting Meaning and Content on the Web: A Dialogue with Heinz Wittenbrink
There are conversations that happen outside what Greeks would call Chronos - the chronological or sequential time, and into what is known as Kairos - the quality, right time, a deep time. My Dialogue with Heinz Wittenbrick happened in Kairos. Heinz Wittenbrick is a blogger, keeping a blog at Lost and Found, a gallery owner (off_gallery graz)
Schema APP and a Story About the Editorial Portal To the Semantic Web Goodies of Entity-based SEO
In 2021, Bill Slawski (may he rest in peace) wrote: SEO has constantly been marketing in the framework of the Web. cit. What Is Semantic SEO? That was not the first time, Bill has been doing deep dives into semantic SEO in his own genius and thorough way by looking at Google's patents. A decade earlier, Bill
Content To The Power Of Linked Data: Wordlift’s Way
Innovations do happen at the intersections. One such innovation happened at the intersection between SEO, content writing and the Semantic Web. It is called WordLift . A tool for Semantic Web weavers, as I called it back in 2017 when I first tried it, having followed Andrea Volpini for some time on Google Plus (yes :-)).
Lemonade and Lyrebirds For Thought: Maria Keet’s The What And How Of Modelling Information and Knowledge
What makes an orange orange - is it its spherical shape or its orange-ness? What dance is really? Does reality exist independently of or is constructed through language? These are only a small part of the body of questions Maria Keet explores in her new (2023) book The What and How of Modelling Information and Knowledge From