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Jim Hendler: scaling AI and knowledge with the semantic web Jim Hendler is a long-time AI expert and a co-creator of the semantic web, which has given meaning to the content on the internet.

25 years ago, @jahendler.bsky.social, web inventor @timbl.bsky.social, and early #AIagent expert Ora Lassila set out their #semanticWeb vision in Scientific American. Listen in on this fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the origins of their work.

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Brad Bolliger: pragmatic semantic modeling for government data Brad Bolliger takes a pragmatic and strategic approach to semantic technology in information exchange systems that for government agencies.

Brad Bolliger came to #knowledgeGraphs via enterprise system design and data analytics. That background informs their pragmatic approach to the use of semantic technology that facilitates information exchange across government agencies.

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Tara Raafat: human-centered knowledge graph & metadata leader Tara Raafat focuses on people as well as technology as she builds high-performing knowledge graph architectures at Bloomberg.

At Bloomberg, Tara Raafat applies the best #semantic practices and embraces the latest #AI technology to build #knowledgeGraphs, but engaging the right stakeholders and building the right kinds of teams is arguably the key to her success.

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What GenAI does well — and where it needs an ecosystem - Digital Science Exploring how hybrid AI approaches blend creativity with structured knowledge for more transparent and trustworthy decision-making.

I'm hosting a conversation about hybrid AI next week. Truly smart systems need it all - good data, neural learning, and symbolic knowledge - and these folks know how to deliver it.

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#knowledgeGraphs #LLMs #enterpriseData

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."

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.

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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.

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.

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A blue Field Notes memo book on a laptop keyboard, opened to the inside cover. “Andy Welfle” is written in yellow ink on the name line, with the start date filled in as 9/14/2025 and the location as San Francisco. A yellow GetHPen Highlight Pen rests diagonally across the notebook. To the right, another open notebook page dated September 14, 2025 shows handwritten notes in blue ink.

Close-up of the inside cover of a blue Field Notes memo book with “Andy Welfle” written in yellow ink on the property line. The clear cap of a yellow GetHPen Highlight Pen rests across the bottom edge of the notebook. A laptop keyboard is visible in the background.

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.

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.

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.

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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 💔💔💔

#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:

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#HumanInTheLoop #Research #Healthcare

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.

@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.

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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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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stop letting venture capitalists set the agenda.

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

The Product Picnic Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

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!

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

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.

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 :)

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.

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...

Had a wonderful conversation with Larry, talking about Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata, knowledge, and language barriers. Larry, thank you for having me over!

Thank YOU, Denny! Awesome conversation.

Denny Vrandečić: Abstract Wikipedia connecting the world's knowledge Denny Vrandečić aims to better connect the world's knowledge with the Abstract Wikipedia project.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.