Larry Swanson

#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 :)

knowledgegraphinsights.com/mara-owens/

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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⏰ The clock is ticking! ⏰

This is your last chance to submit to the ISWC Research, Resource, and In-use Tracks!

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.

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.

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.

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Dave McComb: semantic modeling for the data-centric enterprise Dave McComb is the CEO of Semantic Arts, a prominent knowledge graph consultancy, and an expert on data-centric enterprise architectures.

Dave McComb introduced the #data-centric architecture approach to break out of the application-centric quagmire that traps so many businesses, treating enterprise #data like the precious business asset that it is.

knowledgegraphinsights.com/dave-mccomb/

Trying to get my head around this cowboy-lassoing-butterflies art in this NS train. Dutch cowboys? Butterfly lassoing? Did I miss a meme memo?

#DecoupledDays Submit your session proposal for a 25- or 50-minute session on the evolving web landscape. We will see you at The City College of New York, August 13-14, 2025. Don't miss the deadline—submit by April 30th. We look forward to hearing from you! #CallForPapers

Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire: the value map content framework Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire is a content marketing expert and the creator of the value map framework.

Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire and his business partner developed their "value map" framework to structure and organize #productMarketing information. It helps align internal stakeholders - and gets the right content to both business and technical users of the product.

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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. [Charles] Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage...)

Ole Olesen-Bagneux: enterprise metadata and the Meta Grid Ole Olesen-Bagneux's Meta Grid is a system for understanding and sharing information about an enterprise's metadata.

The info you need to understand your organization's #metadata is already there. You just need to discover and document it. @olesenbagneux.bsky.social 's Meta Grid offers a surprisingly manageable way to accomplish this seemingly daunting task.

This is all true. Trust me; I'm a #taxonomist

As @lilyray.nyc recently pointed out, LLMs' memory is shaped (among other factors) by social media conversations.

Thinking about marketing strategies through a neuroscience lens is no longer sci-fi—it’s becoming a practical framework for all of us!

Thanks, @larry.bsky.social, for the interview!

Andrea Volpini: the role of memory in digital branding for AI Andrea Volpini is an expert on applying an understanding of human and machine memory to marketing and branding for AI systems.

Your #brand is what people say about you after you've left the room. The memories you create determine how people think about you. @cyberandy.bsky.social says modern brand managers need to create digital #memories that align with how #AI systems understand the world.

Perfect!