Larry Swanson
@larry.bsky.social
knowledge graphs | symbolic AI | semantic modeling | structured knowledge | practice democratization | community building | panel moderation | podcasting
At Netflix, @alex.bertails.org and his team have adopted #RDF to build a Unified Data Architecture (UDA) and a #domainModeling language, Upper, that let them quickly and efficiently share complex #data with their internal engineering customers.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/alex-bertails/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/alex-bertails/
Alexandre Bertails: the Netflix Unified Data Architecture
Alexandre Bertails has built at Netflix a Unified Data Architecture and Upper domain modeling language to "Model Once, Represent Everywhere."
knowledgegraphinsights.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
At Netflix, @alex.bertails.org and his team have adopted #RDF to build a Unified Data Architecture (UDA) and a #domainModeling language, Upper, that let them quickly and efficiently share complex #data with their internal engineering customers.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/alex-bertails/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/alex-bertails/
Super-fun to chat with @torreybird.bsky.social about her childhood family dinner-table conversations about semantics, her work aligning stakeholders on language and meaning in big digital projects, and how to close "semantic gaps" in complex organizations.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/
Torrey Podmajersky: language and meaning in complex systems
Torrey Podmajersky is a UX writer and content designer and an expert on aligning semantics and language in the design complex systems.
knowledgegraphinsights.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Super-fun to chat with @torreybird.bsky.social about her childhood family dinner-table conversations about semantics, her work aligning stakeholders on language and meaning in big digital projects, and how to close "semantic gaps" in complex organizations.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/
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What's the German word for that specific feeling of satisfaction you get when you find an inexpensive paint pen that writes REALLY clearly and nicely on a strange (but cool) coverstock that your fresh Field Notes uses, when regular ink or graphite doesn't show up very well at all?
September 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What's the German word for that specific feeling of satisfaction you get when you find an inexpensive paint pen that writes REALLY clearly and nicely on a strange (but cool) coverstock that your fresh Field Notes uses, when regular ink or graphite doesn't show up very well at all?
So good to see @velitchkov.eu at Semantics 2025. Great presentation on applying data centricity and rules to gnarly procurement problems.
Really enjoyed @semantics-conf.bsky.social 2025, once again (this is the 4th time I participate)
Here's my slidedeck kvistgaard.github.io/slides/rules...
#SEMANTiCS2025
Here's my slidedeck kvistgaard.github.io/slides/rules...
#SEMANTiCS2025
kvistgaard.github.io
September 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
So good to see @velitchkov.eu at Semantics 2025. Great presentation on applying data centricity and rules to gnarly procurement problems.
Casey Hart connects professional #ontology practice and the academic discipline of #philosophy and shows how concepts like epistemology, metaphysics, and rhetoric are relevant to both knowledge graphs and AI technology in general.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/casey-hart/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/casey-hart/
Casey Hart: the philosophical foundations of ontology practice
Casey Hart is an expert on the academic and philosophical foundations of professional ontology practice and knowledge graph construction.
knowledgegraphinsights.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Casey Hart connects professional #ontology practice and the academic discipline of #philosophy and shows how concepts like epistemology, metaphysics, and rhetoric are relevant to both knowledge graphs and AI technology in general.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/casey-hart/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/casey-hart/
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This is terrible news, not just for fly research, Drosophila is a key model organism that helps us understand shared biological pathways and the systems that underpin many human diseases 💔💔💔
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is terrible news, not just for fly research, Drosophila is a key model organism that helps us understand shared biological pathways and the systems that underpin many human diseases 💔💔💔
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#AI adoption is growing in #LifeSciences, and a human-in-the-loop ( #HITL ) approach is an essential collaborator. HITL ensures accurate outcomes, eliminates bias, and allows humans to provide critical oversight. Read more:
blog.metaphacts.com/human-in-the...
#HumanInTheLoop #Research #Healthcare
blog.metaphacts.com/human-in-the...
#HumanInTheLoop #Research #Healthcare
August 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#AI adoption is growing in #LifeSciences, and a human-in-the-loop ( #HITL ) approach is an essential collaborator. HITL ensures accurate outcomes, eliminates bias, and allows humans to provide critical oversight. Read more:
blog.metaphacts.com/human-in-the...
#HumanInTheLoop #Research #Healthcare
blog.metaphacts.com/human-in-the...
#HumanInTheLoop #Research #Healthcare
@cmungall.bsky.social tackles complex #knowledgeManagement challenges in the life sciences with well-honed collaborative methods and AI-augmented computational tooling, streamlining #ontology creation and #knowledgeGraph building.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/chris-mungall/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/chris-mungall/
Chris Mungall: collaborative knowledge graphs in the life sciences
Chris Mungall is an expert on building knowledge graphs for the life sciences with a wide variety of scientific collaborators.
knowledgegraphinsights.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@cmungall.bsky.social tackles complex #knowledgeManagement challenges in the life sciences with well-honed collaborative methods and AI-augmented computational tooling, streamlining #ontology creation and #knowledgeGraph building.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/chris-mungall/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/chris-mungall/
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my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
July 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
Leveraging MCP and LLM-powered natural-language interfaces, Emeka Okoye has created RDF Explorer, a Model Context Protocol #MCP service that lets any developer surf the semantic web without having to learn #RDF.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/emeka-okoye/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/emeka-okoye/
Emeka Okoye: exploring the semantic web with MCP
Emeka Okoye, is a very experienced ontology engineer and the creator of the RDF Explorer linked data tool, an MCP service
knowledgegraphinsights.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Leveraging MCP and LLM-powered natural-language interfaces, Emeka Okoye has created RDF Explorer, a Model Context Protocol #MCP service that lets any developer surf the semantic web without having to learn #RDF.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/emeka-okoye/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/emeka-okoye/
Tom Plasterer was instrumental in the creation of the now-widely-adopted #FAIRdata principle, the idea - driven by the introduction of the #semanticWeb - that data should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/tom-plasterer/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/tom-plasterer/
Tom Plasterer: the origins of FAIR data practices
Tom Plasterer was instrumental in early efforts to make web data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable - that is, FAIR.
knowledgegraphinsights.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Tom Plasterer was instrumental in the creation of the now-widely-adopted #FAIRdata principle, the idea - driven by the introduction of the #semanticWeb - that data should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/tom-plasterer/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/tom-plasterer/
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stop letting venture capitalists set the agenda.
July 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
stop letting venture capitalists set the agenda.
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Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it.
Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments
Freelancers/contractors: get in comments
Everyone else: boosts appreciated
Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments
Freelancers/contractors: get in comments
Everyone else: boosts appreciated
June 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it.
Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments
Freelancers/contractors: get in comments
Everyone else: boosts appreciated
Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments
Freelancers/contractors: get in comments
Everyone else: boosts appreciated
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Fact: It is my birthday.
Fact: I run a free+ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic.
Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!
Fact: I run a free+ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic.
Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!
The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Fact: It is my birthday.
Fact: I run a free+ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic.
Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!
Fact: I run a free+ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic.
Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!
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One of the lessons of working with lots of different clients in lots of different businesses is that “building useful abstractions” is a very valuable skill, but one that absolutely cannot replace real operational knowledge of the things being abstracted
June 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
One of the lessons of working with lots of different clients in lots of different businesses is that “building useful abstractions” is a very valuable skill, but one that absolutely cannot replace real operational knowledge of the things being abstracted
Drawing on her background in the #humanities and her pragmatic approach to business, Mara Inglezakis Owens has developed #knowledgeArchitecture practices that delight system users and demonstrate value to key stakeholders. And she's fun to talk with :)
knowledgegraphinsights.com/mara-owens/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/mara-owens/
Mara Inglezakis Owens: a people-loving enterprise architect
Mara Inglezakis Owens is a human-centered enterprise architect at a major US airline with a background in rhetoric and the humanities.
knowledgegraphinsights.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Drawing on her background in the #humanities and her pragmatic approach to business, Mara Inglezakis Owens has developed #knowledgeArchitecture practices that delight system users and demonstrate value to key stakeholders. And she's fun to talk with :)
knowledgegraphinsights.com/mara-owens/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/mara-owens/
Manny Silva has created Docs as Tests, a system that integrates well-developed #techComms practices and a collection of engineering tooling, to help #technicalWriters streamline and constantly improve their software #documentation and #QA work.
ellessmedia.com/csi/manny-si...
ellessmedia.com/csi/manny-si...
Manny Silva: Docs as Tests for resilient technical documentation
Manny Silva is the author of the book "Docs as Tests: A Strategy for Resilient Technical Documentation" and a tech writer at Skyflow.
ellessmedia.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Manny Silva has created Docs as Tests, a system that integrates well-developed #techComms practices and a collection of engineering tooling, to help #technicalWriters streamline and constantly improve their software #documentation and #QA work.
ellessmedia.com/csi/manny-si...
ellessmedia.com/csi/manny-si...
Frank van Harmelen's #AI research looks at how technical systems can best support #people. While some in the AI world seek to replace #humans with machines, he focuses on #hybridIntelligence that supports and collaborates with #people.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/frank-van-ha...
knowledgegraphinsights.com/frank-van-ha...
Frank van Harmelen: hybrid human-machine intelligence for AI
Frank van Harmelen's Hybrid Intelligence Centre investigates AI systems that collaborate with people instead of replacing them.
knowledgegraphinsights.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Frank van Harmelen's #AI research looks at how technical systems can best support #people. While some in the AI world seek to replace #humans with machines, he focuses on #hybridIntelligence that supports and collaborates with #people.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/frank-van-ha...
knowledgegraphinsights.com/frank-van-ha...
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No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
arstechnica.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
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Had a wonderful conversation with Larry, talking about Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata, knowledge, and language barriers. Larry, thank you for having me over!
As the founder of Wikidata, @vrandecic.bsky.social has thought a lot about how to better connect the world's knowledge. His current project, Abstract Wikipedia, aims to let anyone on the planet contribute to the world's collective knowledge.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/denny-vrande...
knowledgegraphinsights.com/denny-vrande...
Denny Vrandečić: Abstract Wikipedia connecting the world's knowledge
Denny Vrandečić aims to better connect the world's knowledge with the Abstract Wikipedia project.
knowledgegraphinsights.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Had a wonderful conversation with Larry, talking about Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata, knowledge, and language barriers. Larry, thank you for having me over!
As the founder of Wikidata, @vrandecic.bsky.social has thought a lot about how to better connect the world's knowledge. His current project, Abstract Wikipedia, aims to let anyone on the planet contribute to the world's collective knowledge.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/denny-vrande...
knowledgegraphinsights.com/denny-vrande...
Denny Vrandečić: Abstract Wikipedia connecting the world's knowledge
Denny Vrandečić aims to better connect the world's knowledge with the Abstract Wikipedia project.
knowledgegraphinsights.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
As the founder of Wikidata, @vrandecic.bsky.social has thought a lot about how to better connect the world's knowledge. His current project, Abstract Wikipedia, aims to let anyone on the planet contribute to the world's collective knowledge.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/denny-vrande...
knowledgegraphinsights.com/denny-vrande...
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⏰ The clock is ticking! ⏰
This is your last chance to submit to the ISWC Research, Resource, and In-use Tracks!
This is your last chance to submit to the ISWC Research, Resource, and In-use Tracks!
May 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
⏰ The clock is ticking! ⏰
This is your last chance to submit to the ISWC Research, Resource, and In-use Tracks!
This is your last chance to submit to the ISWC Research, Resource, and In-use Tracks!
Charles Ivie on the "failure" of the #semanticWeb: Now that more than half of the world's web pages share #RDF annotations and #knowledgeGraphs are widely adopted across enterprises, let's call it what it is - a rousing success.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/charles-ivie/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/charles-ivie/
Charles Ivie: the rousing success of the semantic web "failure"
Charles Ivie the ostensibly failed "semantic web" knowledge-representation "failure" has actually been quite successful.
knowledgegraphinsights.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Charles Ivie on the "failure" of the #semanticWeb: Now that more than half of the world's web pages share #RDF annotations and #knowledgeGraphs are widely adopted across enterprises, let's call it what it is - a rousing success.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/charles-ivie/
knowledgegraphinsights.com/charles-ivie/
Andrea Gioia helps his clients build reusable #dataProducts to capitalize on the value in their #enterprise data assets. Built around collaboratively developed #ontologies, Andrea's products have evolved into something that might also be called a #knowledgeProduct.
Andrea Gioia: human-centered modeling for data products
Andrea Gioia helps his clients build composable, reusable data products so they can capitalize on the value in their data assets.
buff.ly
April 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Andrea Gioia helps his clients build reusable #dataProducts to capitalize on the value in their #enterprise data assets. Built around collaboratively developed #ontologies, Andrea's products have evolved into something that might also be called a #knowledgeProduct.
At Autogram, @eaton.fyi has developed a #contentObservability framework to address the complexity of modern digital architectures, evaluating the composition, quality, health, and effectiveness of content programs to help enterprises measure their #contentROI.
ellessmedia.com/csi/jeff-eat...
ellessmedia.com/csi/jeff-eat...
Jeff Eaton: content observability in complex systems
At Autogram, Jeff Eaton and Karen McGrane developed a content observability framework to address complex, modern content ROI measurement.
ellessmedia.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
At Autogram, @eaton.fyi has developed a #contentObservability framework to address the complexity of modern digital architectures, evaluating the composition, quality, health, and effectiveness of content programs to help enterprises measure their #contentROI.
ellessmedia.com/csi/jeff-eat...
ellessmedia.com/csi/jeff-eat...