Knowledge Graph Insights
by Larry Swanson
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About this podcast
Interviews with experts on semantic technology, ontology design and engineering, linked data, and the semantic web.
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- François Scharffe: An Agentic Harness for Knowledge Engineers – Episode 58 · 36 minFrançois Scharffe As AI unleashes a host of new tools and agents to help build knowledge graphs, engineers like François Scharffe are tasked with harnessing these new…
- Jessica Talisman: The Ontology Pipeline Knowledge Engineering Framework – Episode 57 · 34 minJessica Talisman When the idea of the semantic spectrum was introduced 25 years ago, it was meant to be a conceptual tool to help programmers and architects understand the…
- Eric Little: Super Domains, the Original Context Graph – Episode 56 · 38 minEric Little Knowledge graphs are complicated. They might entail multiple ontologies, several data sources, and any number of generated graphs and other context-establishing…
- Dougal Watt: Human-Guided, LLM-Assisted Ontology Modeling – Episode 55 · 33 minDougal Watt Most conversations about taming generative AI focus on guardrails bolted on after the fact. Dougal Watt takes a different approach: generate the meaning first, as an…
- Yann Le Franc: From Semantic Silos to Shared Ontology Practice – Episode 54 · 36 minYann Le Franc The emerging field of neurosymbolic AI — combining LLMs and knowledge graphs in hybrid AI architectures — is new to a lot of people. For Yann Le Franc, it's the…
- Ben Rode: Porting the Cyc Ontology to RDF – Episode 53 · 41 minBen Rode As the Cyc project winds down, one of its main contributors, Benjamin Rode, is attempting to migrate as much as possible of its upper ontology to RDF. It's an ambitious…
- Lulit Tesfaye: Semantic Architectures for the AI Era – Episode 52 · 35 minLulit Tesfaye Generative AI has prompted a flurry of experimentation in enterprises, resulting in a parade of failed pilots, unproven PoCs, and unrealized return on investment…
- Giancarlo Guizzardi: Ontology, Semantics, and Explainable AI – Episode 51 · 32 minGiancarlo Guizzardi For nearly three decades, Giancarlo Guizzardi has researched and advanced the field of semantics and the practice of ontology and conceptual modeling. His…
- Ora Lassila and Adrian Gschwend: RDF 1.2 Working Group Update – Episode 50 · 36 minOra Lassila and Adrian Gschwend Even as RDF has become ubiquitous in enterprises and across the web, its awkward handling of reification — the ability to refer to other…
- Daniel Davis: Grounding Generative AI with Context Graphs – Episode 49 · 39 minDaniel Davis Long before Foundation Capital published their "trillion dollar opportunity" article about them, Daniel Davis had been building a platform for context graphs…
- Veronika Heimsbakk: Connecting Data Engineering and Knowledge Architecture – Episode 48 · 30 minVeronika Heimsbakk With interest in knowledge graphs growing by the day, Veronika Heimsbakk is busier than ever with her efforts to connect the data engineering, information…
- Joe Reis: Fighting “Context” and Other Tech-Industry Hype – Episode 47 · 35 minJoe Reis When Gartner declared 2026 "The Year of Context," Joe Reis leapt into action, immediately writing a good-natured satirical article about "context products," "context…
- Robert Sanderson: Building Yale’s Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graph – Episode 46 · 37 minRobert Sanderson Yale University manages huge collections of precious cultural heritage artifacts housed in multiple museums, libraries, and other collections. Using knowledge…
- Max Gärber: Agentic AI Built on a Knowledge Graph Foundation – Episode 45 · 36 minMax Gärber The promise of agentic AI is being realized in systems like the Service Copilot that Zeiss microscopes provides for its field service engineers. The system…
- Quentin Reul: Solving Business Problems with Neuro-Symbolic AI – Episode 44 · 30 minQuentin Reul The complementary nature of knowledge graphs and LLMs has become clear, and long-time knowledge engineering professionals like Quentin Reul now routinely combine…
- Jim Hendler: Scaling AI and Knowledge with the Semantic Web – Episode 43 · 55 minJim Hendler As the World Wide Web emerged in the late 1990s, AI experts like Jim Hendler spotted an opportunity to imbue in the new medium, in a scale-able way, knowledge about…
- Brad Bolliger: Pragmatic Semantic Modeling for Government Data – Episode 42 · 34 minBrad Bolliger Brad Bolliger entered the knowledge graph space via enterprise software system design and data analytics. That background informs their pragmatic and strategic…
- Tara Raafat: Human-Centered Knowledge Graph and Metadata Leadership – Episode 41 · 30 minTara Raafat At Bloomberg, Tara Raafat applies her extensive ontology, knowledge graph, and management expertise to create a solid semantic and technical foundation for the…
- Alexandre Bertails: The Netflix Unified Data Architecture – Episode 40 · 32 minAlexandre Bertails At Netflix, Alexandre Bertails and his team have adopted the RDF standard to capture the meaning in their content in a consistent way and generate consistent…
- Torrey Podmajersky: Aligning Language and Meaning in Complex Systems – Episode 39 · 33 minTorrey Podmajersky Torrey Podmajersky is uniquely well-prepared to help digital teams align on language and meaning. Her father's interest in philosophy led her to an early…
