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Enterprise Semantic Infrastructure Workshop Tom Reamy Chief Knowledge Architect KAPS Group Knowledge Architecture Professional Services http://www.kapsgroup.com
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2 Agenda Introduction Semantic Infrastructure – Basic Concepts – Content, People, Business Processes, Technology – Developing an Articulated Strategic Vision – Benefits of an Infrastructure Approach Development and Maintenance of a Semantic Infrastructure – Semantic Tools – Capabilities & Acquisition Strategy – Development Processes & Best Practices Semantic Infrastructure Applications – Enterprise Search – Search Based Applications & Beyond Discussion &Questions
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3 KAPS Group: General Knowledge Architecture Professional Services Virtual Company: Network of consultants – 8-10 Partners – SAS, Smart Logic, Microsoft, Concept Searching, etc. Consulting, Strategy, Knowledge architecture audit Services: – Taxonomy/Text Analytics development, consulting, customization – Technology Consulting – Search, CMS, Portals, etc. – Evaluation of Enterprise Search, Text Analytics – Metadata standards and implementation – Knowledge Management: Collaboration, Expertise, e-learning Applied Theory – Faceted taxonomies, complexity theory, natural categories
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Semantic Infrastructure Basic Concepts & Benefits Tom Reamy Chief Knowledge Architect KAPS Group Knowledge Architecture Professional Services http://www.kapsgroup.com
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5 Agenda Semantic Infrastructure – Basic Concepts – Content & Content Structure – People – Resources, Producers, Consumers – Semantics in Business Processes – Technology – Information, Text Analytics, Text Mining Semantic Infrastructure – Strategic Foundation – Knowledge Audit Plus Semantic Infrastructure – Benefits of an Infrastructure Approach – Infrastructure vs. Projects – Semantics vs. Technology Conclusion
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6 Semantic Infrastructure: 4 Dimensions Ideas – Content and Content Structure – Map of Content – Tribal language silos – Structure – articulate and integrate People – Producers & Consumers – Communities, Users, Central Team Activities – Business processes and procedures – Semantics, information needs and behaviors Technology – CMS, Search, portals, text analytics – Applications – BI, CI, Semantic Web, Text Mining
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7 Semantic Infrastructure: 4 Dimensions Content and Content Structure Map multiple types and sources of content – Structured and unstructured, internal and external Beyond Metadata and Taxonomy – Keywords - poor performance – Dublin Core: hard to implement – Dublin Core: Too formal and not formal enough Need structures that are more powerful and more flexible – Model of framework and smart modules Framework – Faceted metadata – Simple taxonomies with intelligence – categorization & extraction – Ontology and Semantic Web – Best bets and user metadata
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8 Knowledge Structures List of Keywords (Folksonomies) Controlled Vocabularies, Glossaries Thesaurus Browse Taxonomies (Classification) Formal Taxonomies Faceted Classifications Semantic Networks / Ontologies Categorization Taxonomies Topic Maps Knowledge Maps
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9 A Framework of Knowledge Structures Level 1 – keywords, glossaries, acronym lists, search logs – Resources, inputs into upper levels Level 2 – Thesaurus, Taxonomies – Semantic Resource – foundation for applications, metadata Level 3 – Facets, Ontologies, semantic networks, topic maps, Categorization Taxonomies – Applications Level 4 – Knowledge maps – Strategic Resource
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10 Semantic Infrastructure: People Communities / Tribes – Different languages – Different Cultures – Different models of knowledge Two needs – support silos and inter-silo communication Types of Communities – Formal and informal – Variety of subject matters – vaccines, research, sales – Variety of communication channels and information behaviors Individual People – tacit knowledge / information behaviors – Consumers and Producers of information – In Depth – Map major types
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11 Semantic Infrastructure Dimensions People: Central Team Central Team supported by software and offering services – Creating, acquiring, evaluating taxonomies, metadata standards, vocabularies, categorization taxonomies – Input into technology decisions and design – content management, portals, search – Socializing the benefits of metadata, creating a content culture – Evaluating metadata quality, facilitating author metadata – Analyzing the results of using metadata, how communities are using – Research metadata theory, user centric metadata – Facilitate knowledge capture in projects, meetings
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12 Semantic Infrastructure Dimensions People: Location of Team KM/KA Dept. – Cross Organizational, Interdisciplinary Balance of dedicated and virtual, partners – Library, Training, IT, HR, Corporate Communication Balance of central and distributed Industry variation – Pharmaceutical – dedicated department, major place in the organization – Insurance – Small central group with partners – Beans – a librarian and part time functions Which design – knowledge architecture audit
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13 Semantic Infrastructure Dimensions Technology Infrastructure Enterprise platforms: from creation to retrieval to application – Semantic Infrastructure as the computer network Applications – integrated meaning, not just data Semantic Structure – Text Analytics – taxonomy, categorization, extraction Integration Platforms – Content management, Search – Add structure to content at publication – Add structure to content at consumption
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14 Infrastructure Solutions: Resources Technology Text Mining – Both a structure technology – taxonomy development – And an application Search Based Applications – Portals, collaboration, business intelligence, CRM – Semantics add intelligence to individual applications – Semantics add ability to communicate between applications Creation – content management, innovation, communities of practice (CoPs) – When, who, how, and how much structure to add – Workflow with meaning, distributed subject matter experts (SMEs) and centralized teams
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15 Infrastructure Solutions: Elements Business Processes Platform for variety of information behaviors & needs – Research, administration, technical support, etc. – Types of content, questions Subject Matter Experts – Info Structure Amateurs Web Analytics – Feedback for maintenance & refine Enhance Basic Processes – Integrated Workflow – Enhance Both Efficiency and Quality Enhance support processes – education, training Develop new processes and capabilities – External Content – Text mining, smarter categorization
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16 Semantic Infrastructure: The start and foundation Knowledge Architecture Audit Knowledge Map - Understand what you have, what you are, what you want – The foundation of the foundation Contextual interviews, content analysis, surveys, focus groups, ethnographic studies, Text Mining Category modeling – “Intertwingledness” -learning new categories influenced by other, related categories Natural level categories mapped to communities, activities Novice prefer higher levels Balance of informative and distinctiveness Living, breathing, evolving foundation is the goal
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17 Semantic Infrastructure: The start and foundation Knowledge Architecture Audit Phase I – Initial Discussion, Plan – Get high level structure, inventory of content – Get high level business, organization, technology structure Onsite – 1 day to 1 week – Planning meetings, general contextual info – Get access to content – documents, databases, spider – Decide who to talk to and get access to them
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18 Semantic Infrastructure: The start and foundation Knowledge Architecture Audit Phase II – Spider Content – Explore content – text mining, clusters, categorization, etc. – Work sessions – SME’s, feedback in initial structures – Interviews – SME’s – work flow, info in business processes – Survey – optional – broad look at interview info Phase III – Develop K Map – ontologies, taxonomies, categorization – Train K Map – questions, feedback – Develop Expertise Map, Other Maps // Train Final Strategy Report and K Map
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19 Knowledge Architecture Audit: Knowledge Map Project Foundation Contextual Interviews Information Interviews App/Content Catalog User SurveyStrategy Document Meetings, work groups Overview High Level: Process Community Info behaviors of Business processes Technology and content All 4 dimensions Meetings, work groups General Outline Broad Context Deep Details Complete Picture New Foundation
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20 Semantic Infrastructure Enterprise Taxonomies: Wrong Approach Very difficult to develop - $100,000’s Even more difficult to apply – Teams of Librarians or Authors/SME’s – Cost versus Quality Problems with maintenance Cost rises in proportion with granularity Difficulty of representing user perspective Social media requires a framework – doesn’t create one – Tyranny of the majority, madness of crowds
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21 Semantic Infrastructure Content Structures: New Approach Simple Subject Taxonomy structure – Easy to develop and maintain Combined with categorization capabilities – Added power and intelligence Combined with Faceted Metadata – Dynamic selection of simple categories – Allow multiple user perspectives Can’t predict all the ways people think Monkey, Banana, Panda Combined with ontologies and semantic data – Multiple applications – Text mining to Search – Combine search and browse
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22 Semantic Infrastructure Design: People, Technology, Business Processes People (Central) – tagging, evaluating tags, fine tune rules and taxonomy People (Users) - social tagging, suggestions Software - Text analytics, auto-categorization, entity extraction Software – Search, Content Management, Portals-Intranets – Hybrid model – combination of automatic and human Business Processes – integrated search with activities, text analytics based applications, intelligent routing
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23 Semantic Infrastructure Benefits Why Semantic Infrastructure Unstructured content = 80% or more of all content Limited Usefullness – database of unstructured content Need to add (infra) structure to make it useful Information is about meaning, semantics Search is about semantics, not technology Can’t Google do it? – Link Algorithm – human act of meaning – Doesn’t work in enterprise – 1,000’s of editors adding meaning New technology makes it possible – Text Analytics
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24 Semantic Infrastructure Benefits General Time and Productivity Time Savings – Too Big to Believe? – Lost time searching - $12M a year per 1,000 – Cost of recreating lost information - $4.5M per 1,000 – Cost of not finding the right information – Years? – 10% improvement = $1.2M a year per 10,000 Making Metrics Human – Number of addition FTE’s at no cost (enhanced productivity) – Savings passed on to clients – Spreadsheet of extra activities (ex. Training – working smarter – Build a more integrated, smarter organization
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25 Semantic Infrastructure Benefits Return on Existing Technology Enterprise Content Management - $100K - $2M – Underperforming – year after year, new initiative every 5 years ECM as part of a Platform – Enhance search – improved metadata, especially keywords A Hybrid Model of ECM and Metadata – Authors, editors-librarians, Text Analytics – Submit a document -> TA generates metadata, extracts concepts, Suggests categorization (keywords) -> author OK’s (easy task) -> librarian monitors for issues – Use results as input into analytics
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26 Semantic Infrastructure Benefits Return on Existing Technology Enterprise Search - $100K - $2M – Cost Effective and good quality keywords / categorization – More metadata – faceted navigation Work with ECM or dynamically generate categorization at search results time Rich results – summaries, categorization, facets like date, people, organizations, etc. Tag clouds and related topics Foundation for Search Based Applications – all need semantics
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27 Semantic Infrastructure Benefits Infrastructure vs. Projects Strategic foundation vs. Short Term Integrated solution – CM and Search and Applications – Better results – Avoid duplication Semantics – Small comparative cost – Needed to get full value from all the above ROI – asking the wrong question – What is ROI for having an HR department? – What is ROI for organizing your company?
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28 Semantic Infrastructure Benefits Knowledge Management Benefits Foundation for advanced knowledge representations – Capture the depth and complexity of knowledge context Connect KM initiatives to entire organization – Information AND Knowledge (and Data) – CIO resources with KM depth Foundation for KM initiatives that work and deliver value – Portals and Expertise and Communities New KM initiatives – combine sophisticated handling of language and knowledge and education Return knowledge to knowledge management – Cognitive Science could change everything (almost)
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29 Semantic Infrastructure Benefits Selling the Benefits CTO, CFO, CEO – Doesn’t understand – wrong language – Semantics is extra – harder work will overcome – Not business critical – Not tangible – accounting bias – Does not believe the numbers – Believes he/she can do it Need stories and figures that will connect Need to understand their world – every case is different Need to educate them – Semantics is tough and needed
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30 Conclusion Semantic Infrastructure is not just a project – Foundation and Platform for multiple projects Semantic Infrastructure is not just about search – It is about language, cognition, and applied intelligence Strategic Vision (articulated by K Map) is essential – Even for your under the radar vocabulary project – Paying attention to theory is practical Benefits are enormous – believe it! Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast – Initial Project = +10%, All Other Projects = -50%
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Questions? Tom Reamy tomr@kapsgroup.com KAPS Group Knowledge Architecture Professional Services http://www.kapsgroup.com
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