Under most IT scenarios, what you know about your domain and the data that fills in that understanding are locked up in your data storage systems, table metadata, object-relational mapping layers, and software implementations. Knowledge Graphs are a new name and vision for self-describing, semantically-meaningful projections of your understanding using machine-processable, network-friendly protocols. Tied to an architecture that has proven itself for over 30 years as a our definition of scale and the ability to absorb change, Knowledge Graphs are a crucial new tool for building long-lasting business value without having to change much about what you do.
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.