Data Cataloging with Knowledge Graphs
Thursday, April 22, 2021
08:00 AM - 08:50 AM
Intermediate
Today, data catalogs are increasingly recognized as a central mechanism for data management. They have become a critical building block for helping organizations find, inventory, connect, and analyze their diverse and distributed data assets – in order to optimize their business use and value. Knowledge graphs are a key technology for data cataloging because they can meaningfully capture and connect the vast variety of enterprise data sources. They can eliminate data and metadata silos, delivering high-value business applications such as complete end-to-end data lineage and “Google-like” semantic search over metadata.
This talk will discuss:
- Why flexibility, extensibility, and open APIs are a must for data catalogs
- The role of knowledge graphs in capturing information about diverse and siloed data assets and in creating semantic relationships between them
- How assets in a data catalog can be contextualized by connecting them to relevant processes, policies, and other business information
- How inferencing and machine learning can automate and simplify the process of tagging and connecting data assets
- Why data catalogs are an important step in supporting enterprises' move towards data lakes
Irene Polikoff, the CEO and co-founder of TopQuadrant, was a co-chair of the W3C SHACL Working Group and is now a co-chair of the W3C SHACL Community Group. She has more than two decades of experience in software development, management, consulting, and strategic planning. Since co-founding TopQuadrant in 2001, Irene has been involved in more than a dozen projects in government and commercial sectors. She has written strategy papers, trained customers on the use of the Semantic Web standards, developed ontology models, designed solution architectures, and defined deployment processes and guidance.
Before co-founding TopQuadrant, Irene was a Principal in the national Knowledge, Content Management, and Portals Practice at IBM Global Services. Prior to that, she was a Senior Development Manager and a Project Executive for IBM Worldwide Consultant's tools and methods. Irene has a master's degree in Operations Research from Columbia University.