Knowledge graphs, linked data and other connected things

For those of us engaged in the construction of connected content ecosystems, or even just navigating the world of contemporary enterprise-scale digital content, it’s important to have a precise understanding of just what such ecosystems can contain. In building any type of content network, what is the material of which this network consists? What is content?

The answer I arrived at was informative, not least because it helped me understand that I was actually asking the wrong question.

A summary of the 1 April 2020 virtual Meetup, "Knowledge Graphs to Fight COVID-19", along with a brief survey of related linked data community initiatives.

Released 17 Mar. 2020, schema.org 7.0 includes new vocabulary relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, including types for special announcements and virtual locations.

A virtual Meetup to discuss active knowledge graph projects that can be used in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Google's Natasha Noy said in a post today that Google Dataset Search "is officially out of beta," and went on to detail a number of new features that have been…

Dan Brickley announced today on the Schema Blog that schema.org version 6.0 has been released. This is the first release since the summer of 2019 that includes any notable changes…

Google announced today that on As of April 6, 2020, "data-vocabulary.org markup will no longer be eligible for Google rich result features." Starting immediately, Google "Search Console will issue warnings…

No, the title of this post isn't some SEO ploy. Despite being now more than a year old, few have heard of this Google-led initiative. And that's a pity, because…

It's a new decade, and to ring it in I'm launching this new website, The Graph Lounge. This is a new digital home for yours truly. From 2009 until today…