Our client in this case study is a software company which develops, publishes, and distributes video games for consoles, PCs, smartphones, and tab-lets in both physical and digital formats. They also create educational and cultural software, cartoons, and literary, cinematographic, and television works. It owns several brands and a diversified portfolio of franchises. The client required a centralized vocabulary management software platform to provide standardized concepts across a decentralized, global organization to find, browse, and discover enterprise content. They needed the ability to push vocabularies out to consuming systems and users while also allowing users to suggest new concepts without requiring them to log in to the taxonomy and ontology management software. In addition to the out-of-the-box ontology management software functionality, the client required bespoke work in the system and dedicated API connectors which became part of the common code base for all versions going for-ward. Their requirements presented the opportunity to explore uses for the new specification, RDF-star, in our implementation. As a new and developing specification in RDF graph databases, the use of RDF-star is groundbreaking work for commercial enterprise ontology management systems.
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Ahren E. Lehnert is an information and knowledge management professional with nearly twenty years’ experience in taxonomy, text analytics, search, and content and records management. He has developed enterprise taxonomies in a consulting capacity for clients in a broad range of industries.
