Most conversations about taming generative AI focus on guardrails bolted on after the fact. Dougal Watt takes a different approach: generate the meaning first, as an ontology, and let everything else — agents, APIs, knowledge graphs — flow from that. knowledgegraphinsights.com/dougal-watt/

Dougal Watt: human-guided, LLM-assisted ontology modeling

Dougal Watt is an expert on human-guided, LLM-assisted ontology modeling and on AI harnesses, guardrails, and safety.

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Random question for the possibly-zero number of friends whose interests overlap in data science and far-right religious groups like NAR. …Is there anyone out there who'd be interested in a normalized corpus of ~30 years of "prophetic messages" that were published to a NAR audience of ~250,000?

With a career that spans academic study as a computational neuroscientist and his current work creating enterprise systems that ground LLMs in #ontology backed #knowledgeGraphs, Yann Le Franc is a living embodiment of #neurosymbolicAI. knowledgegraphinsights.com/yann-le-franc/

Yann Le Franc: from semantic silos to shared ontology practice

Yann Le Franc is an expert on spanning semantic silos, developing shared ontology practices, and hybrid AI architectures.

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when in rome

As the #Cyc project winds down, one of its main contributors, @benrode.bsky.social, is trying to migrate its #ontology to RDF, an ambitious project, much like Cyc. We tried to focus on the Cyc>RDF project, but there was just too much good #AIhistory to share. knowledgegraphinsights.com/ben-rode/

Ben Rode: porting the Cyc ontology to RDF

Benjamin Rode is an expert on AI history and the Cyc project and is currently porting its upper ontology to RDF.

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And @doctorow.pluralistic.net strikes again

Rob Hanna and Lance Cummings explore how #DITA #informationTyping clarifies writing for human readers, and have discovered in the process that those same structural principles help AI deliver better results. A very edifying conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too. ellessmedia.com/csi/info-typ...

Rob Hanna and Lance Cummings: information typing in DITA

Rob Hanna and Lance Cummings are experts on information typing in DITA, which helps both human readers and AI better understand content.

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I was tired of always answering the same question over and over, so I’ve created willaireplacetechnicalwriters.com

Recent slide deck "Is the Semantic Web Vision Still Relevant?" from @jahendler.bsky.social and Ora Lassila is really good. www.slideshare.net/slideshow/is...

In urgent need of funds. If you know of anyone looking for contract/freelance web development work please send them my way! I specialize in accessibility, design systems, & documentation. Open to full stack as well! Email: inquiries@semanticfish.com Website: semanticfish.com

Me in 2006: This Sci Fi book is stupid! How would a society just forget how to do sophisticated and advanced thinking? Me in 2026: ok yeah fair enough

Lulit Tesfaye improves companies' AI capabilities with a #semanticLayer that puts precious knowledge assets in a #context that machines can actually work with. A crucial part of that context is the interoperability that standards like #RDF enable. knowledgegraphinsights.com/lulit-tesfaye/

Lulit Tesfaye: semantic architectures for the AI era

Lulit Tesfaye is a Partner and VP at Enterprise Knowledge and an expert on semantic architectures for AI and knowledge management.

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This anthology is an international story of professional resilience and technical brilliance. We are excited to bring these diverse voices together in one volume. Will yours be one of them? Submit here: forms.gle/jw5AZ4nBtTKT... #WomenInEngineering #Professionalism #STEMWomen

Random question: does anyone here know anyone in San Francisco/Bay Area who does MacBook mods or repairs? I want to do some MacBook Neo modding and am a bit freaked out to do it myself.

Two years ago, by chance we got a culinary herb from Italy called Stridolo (Silene inflata). We live in the coastal woodlands of Sonoma County, California., and this seems to love our climate. I use this in pasta, and would love to hear more from people in Italy who use it regularly. #FoodSky

Giancarlo Guizzardi advances the fields of #semantics, #ontology, and #conceptualModeling with his work on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO), the OntoUML pattern language, and #explainableAI. Fun conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too. knowledgegraphinsights.com/giancarlo-gu...

Giancarlo Guizzardi: ontology, semantics, and explainable AI

Giancarlo Guizzardi is an expert on ontology engineering, conceptual modeling, semantics, and explainable AI at the University of Twente.

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Ora Lassila and @ktk.netlabs.org lead the W3C working group that is tackling the #RDF reification problem. RDF 1.2 introduces the reifier, which lets you annotate individual graph relationships with provenance, confidence, and source. knowledgegraphinsights.com/rdf12/

Ora Lassila and Adrian Gschwend: RDF 1.2 working group update

Ora Lassila and Adrian Gschwend lead the W3C RDF 1.2 working group, which is focusing on improvements to how RDF handles reification.

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Long before Foundation Capital published their "trillion dollar opportunity" article about them, @trustspooky.bsky.social had been building a platform for #contextGraphs, aiming to ground probabilistic AI systems in a reliable knowledge system. knowledgegraphinsights.com/daniel-davis/

Daniel Davis: grounding generative AI with context graphs

Daniel Davis is an expert on grounding gen AI with context graphs and co-founder of TrustGraph.ai, an open-source context graph platform.

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“Give your agent legs” is a wild way to say: “we hired a guy, and he has a backpack” Congratulations, you invented couriers

Best known as a #knowledgeGraph and #SHACL expert, @veronahe.bsky.social also connects #dataEngineering, #informationArchitecture, and #ontology practices via her consulting, teaching, and speaking. A fun conversation with an industry legend - hope you enjoy it as much as we did. buff.ly/YV5vFMW

Veronika Heimsbakk: connecting data and knowledge engineering

Veronika Heimsbakk connects data engineering and knowledge architecture and is the author of the book "SHACL for the Practitioner"

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I've been using it happily for years now, but it's only today that I need to cite something which is "forthcoming," and when I use CSL Variable: Status as suggested here www.zotero.org/support/kb/i... It's not taken up. Any ideas?

No one is better than @joereis.bsky.social at dismantling tech industry hype, like the current "context" craze. This was a fun and edifying and broad-ranging conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too. knowledgegraphinsights.com/joe-reis/

Joe Reis: fighting "context" and other tech-industry hype

When Gartner declared 2026 "The Year of Context," Joe Reis leapt into action, writing a good-natured satirical article about the buzzword.

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Few people have advanced the field of #contentDesign as much as Melanie Seibert. She's been designing content experiences and managing design teams for more than 25 years. She recently captured her best insights in a new book, "Managing Content Design Teams." ellessmedia.com/csi/melanie-...

Melanie Seibert: author of "Managing Content Design Teams"

Melanie Seibert is a 25-year content design and management veteran and the author of the book "Managing Content Design Teams."

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Using time-tested #knowledgeGraph and #ontology design patterns, Robert Sanderson helps scholars and the general public access information about — and make connections across — millions of unique items in Yale's #culturalHeritage collections knowledgegraphinsights.com/rob-sanderson/

Human in the loop 😀

Zeiss' Service Copilot #agenticAI system includes #LLMs, but Max Gärber says that it's the system's solid #knowledgeGraph and metadata foundations that make it perform so well. An instructive and actionable conversation. Hope you enjoy it, too. knowledgegraphinsights.com/max-gaerber/

Max Gärber: agentic AI built on a knowledge graph foundation

Max Gärber is an expert on agentic AI, knowledge graphs, and technical documentation and is a Consultant at PANTOPIX, a German consultancy.

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Tech is only as valuable as the problem it solves. 🤯 I joined @larry.bsky.social to share why we use a Neuro-Symbolic approach to solve narrow business problems with precision. Stop guessing; start knowing. 🎧 Listen: youtu.be/qVJW6AXwj88?... #EidenAI #NeuroSymbolicAI #KnowledgeGraphs

Quentin Reul: Solving Business Problems with Neuro-Symbolic AI – Episode 44

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The complementary nature of #knowledgeGraphs and #LLMs is now clear and long-time knowledge engineering professionals like @unlockdatawithq.bsky.social are combining them in hybrid #neurosymbolicAI systems. Lots of pragmatic advice in this conversation. knowledgegraphinsights.com/quentin-reul/

Quentin Reul: solving business problems with neuro-symbolic AI

Quentin Reul is an expert at solving business problems with neuro-symbolic AI, combining LLMs and knowledge graphs in hybrid AI systems.

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OK, so all is ready now. 📢[[Bluesky]] people, follow bsky.app/profile/anag... and start contributing to this wonderful [[knowledge graph]] commons. All it takes is adding a pair of square brackets around key words and phrases in your posts.

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I added [[Bluesky embeds]] to the Agora, so now when you visit a location where posts have been linked they will be shown (like we already did for Mastodon and X.) Thank you @velitchkov.eu for reporting this feature was missing! :)

25 years ago, @jahendler.bsky.social, web inventor @timbl.bsky.social, and early #AIagent expert Ora Lassila set out their #semanticWeb vision in Scientific American. Listen in on this fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the origins of their work. knowledgegraphinsights.com/jim-hendler/

Jim Hendler: scaling AI and knowledge with the semantic web

Jim Hendler is a long-time AI expert and a co-creator of the semantic web, which has given meaning to the content on the internet.

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