Dr Ian PiperUK Director
PoolParty Semantic Suite
Content architecture, classification and knowledge graphs
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Agenda
● Introducing SKOS taxonomies for classification● Modelling content and taxonomies for classification● Building content knowledge graphs
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SKOS is:
• The Simple Knowledge Organisation System
• A W3C standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/
• An RDF-conformant data model (an ontology)
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(which may seem a little dry and dull)
But really, and more importantly,SKOS is:
• A simple, well-defined, easy to understand format for classification schemes
• An extensible model for flexible taxonomy building
• A fundamental building block for semantic content classification
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So why is SKOS useful?
• It is easy to read• It provides basic taxonomy features
(broader, narrower, related, various labels)• Hierarchies are implied through broader-
narrower properties rather than explicit in element structures
• It is extensible (SKOS-XL, custom schemes)
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Simplified SKOS model
• Two classes (types of thing): Concept and ConceptScheme
• These classes have properties• Some properties link concepts to other concepts• (via their URIs)• Other properties define and describe concepts
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Old-school classification
• A traditional CMS taxonomy• Terms are simple strings – no extended
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Old-school classification
• Traditional content tagged with taxonomy• The tag is a hard database relationship• No semantics (anywhere!)12
What’s wrong with this?
• Not much, IF you have only simple content AND it’s all in one place AND your CMS and taxonomies never change
• It’s a fragile mechanism – it can break if you change anything
• It’s only a local solution – it won’t help you to connect up your enterprise
• Simple, monolithic content objects are inflexible – not easy to re-use
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Another approach
• Think of content in terms of granular objects and containers
• Don’t worry about fixed storage hierarchies – use virtual hierarchies
• Give every content object a URI• Use external, enterprise taxonomies rather
than internal, local taxonomies• Build semantic links between content and
taxonomies
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A piece of structured content with a URI
17The content object has a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
Putting it all together; a content object semantically tagged with a taxonomy concept
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Content knowledge graphs: summary
A content knowledge graph approach:
• Allows separation of concerns and reduces dependencies
• Facilitates the development of an enterprise knowledge graph
• Provides an incremental route from current state
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CONNECT
Dr Ian PiperUK PoolParty DirectorTellura Information Services Ltd.• [email protected]• [email protected]• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianpiper • https://twitter.com/tellura_tweets • http://tellura.co.uk/
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Sebastian GablerConsultant, Semantic Web Company• [email protected]• https://at.linkedin.com/in/SebastianGabler• https://poolparty.biz
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