Building an Empire of Knowledge with Semantic Data
It seems like every crime show includes a few scenes where we see that the detective has built a wall of pictures, newspaper clippings, index cards and other interesting documents, linking all these things together through a network of string and push pins. This linked data allows them to step back and see how the facts relate and helps provide the bigger picture of what happened and how to solve it. Seeing the bigger picture allows detectives to use inductive and deductive reasoning to pursue leads,identify gaps in their knowledge and continue the investigation in ways they may not have seen before.The crime wall is a physical representation of knowledge or context. The crime wall helps investigators see the relationships and understand the true meaning of the facts surrounding a case. Understanding context can lead to accelerated insights and increase the productivity of the detectives. In the digital world, we can represent knowledge through similar techniques. We call this di