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Dr. Jans Aasman Presented Why Knowledge Graphs Hit the Hype Cycle and What they have in common. The Ontolog Forum is an open, international, virtual community of practice devoted to … Continue reading Ontolog Forum – Why Knowledge Graphs Now (Recording) →

The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year’s theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit was started … Continue reading Ontology Summit 2020 – Knowledge Graphs →

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman’s recent IoT Evolution Article: Conceptually, the promise of the Internet of Things is almost halcyon. Its billions of sensors are all connected, continuously transmitting data to … Continue reading Harnessing the Internet of Things with JSON-LD →

“The 2019 Hype Cycle highlights the emerging technologies with significant impact on business, society and people over the next five to 10 years,” says Brian Burke, Research Vice President, Gartner. “Technology … Continue reading Knowledge Graphs rise in Gartner’s Hype Cycle →

Introduction In this document we describe how to setup an AllegroGraph replication cluster on AWS using the terraform program. The cluster will have one controlling instance and a set of instances controlled by an Auto … Continue reading AllegroGraph Replication on Amazon’s AWS using Terraform →

SHACL is a SHApe Constraint Language. It specifies a vocabulary (using triples) to describe the shape that data should have. The shape specifies things like the following simple requirements: How many triples … Continue reading SHACL – Shapes Constraint Language in AllegroGraph →

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman’s recent Destination CRM article: The need for text analytics and speech recognition has broadened over the years, becoming more prevalent and essential in the sales, marketing, and customer … Continue reading Turn Customer Service Calls into Enterprise Knowledge Graphs →

Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph and Document Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today announced that it has been named to Database … Continue reading AllegroGraph Named to DBTA Top 100 That Matter Most in Data →

Here is an example for trying out the new time slider in Gruff’s graph view. It uses triples from crunchbase.com that contain a history of corporate acquisitions and funding events … Continue reading Gruff Time Machine Tutorial →

A linked data framework can empower smart cities to realize social, political, and financial goals. Smart cities are projected to become one of the most prominent manifestations of the Internet … Continue reading Why Smart Cities Need AI Knowledge Graphs →

DOWNLOAD – Gruff Gruff is the Knowledge Graph industry’s leading Graph Visualization software for exploring and discovering connections within data. Gruff provides novice users and graph experts the ability to … Continue reading New Gruff v7.4 – Now Available! →

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman’s recent Forbes article: There’s a fascinating dichotomy in artificial intelligence between statistics and rules, machine learning and expert systems. Newcomers to artificial intelligence (AI) regard machine … Continue reading Creating Explainable AI With Rules →

AllegroGraph provides two ways to add metadata to triples. The first one is very similar to what typical property graph databases provide: we use the named graph of triples to … Continue reading Adding Properties to Triples in AllegroGraph →

Semantically Linking Earth Observation Data Makes it FAIR for the Global Community of Geoscientists In celebration of Earth Day, Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading … Continue reading Earth Day – Franz Inc. and Geoscience Experts Recognize the Growing Importance of Semantic Knowledge Graphs for Earth Science →

Presenters – Burt Smith, N3 Results and Jans Aasman, Franz Inc. In the typical sales organization the contents of the actual chat or voice conversation between agent and customer is … Continue reading Webcast – Speech Recognition, Knowledge Graphs, and AI for Intelligent Customer Operations – April 3, 2019 →

The following is example #19 from our AllegroGraph Python Tutorial. JSON-LD is described pretty well at https://json-ld.org/ and the specification can be found at https://json-ld.org/latest/json-ld/ . The website https://json-ld.org/playground/ is also useful. There are many reasons … Continue reading Using JSON-LD in AllegroGraph – Python Example →

According to Donald Feinberg, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, the very challenge created by digital disruption — too much data — has also created an unprecedented opportunity. The vast … Continue reading Gartner Identifies Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends for 2019 →

Algorithm-XLab – March 2019 Franz CEO Dr. Jans Aasman Explains how to manage AI Modelling Risks. AI model risk management has moved to the forefront of contemporary concerns for statistical Artificial Intelligence, … Continue reading What is the Answer to AI Model Risk Management? →

Download – AllegroGraph v6.5 and Gruff v7.3  AllegroGraph – Documentation Gruff – Documentation Adding JSON/JSON-LD Documents to a Graph Database Traditional document databases (e.g. MongoDB) have excelled at storing documents at … Continue reading New!!! AllegroGraph v6.5 – Multi-model Semantic Graph and Document Database →

Forbes – February 2019 Although you may not have heard of JavaScript Object Notation Linked Data (JSON-LD), it is already affecting your business. Search engine giant Google has mentioned JSON-LD as a … Continue reading Why Is JSON-LD Important To Businesses? →