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I was fortunate to be hired as a contractor 11 years ago to work on an internal Google Knowledge Graph application. Google is just one of many large companies t
by mark_l_watson 2y ago
I was fortunate to be hired as a contractor 11 years ago to work on an internal Google Knowledge Graph application. Google is just one of many large companies to utilize one huge graph to localize information from many sources.
I bought into TBL’s Semantic Web ideas (and I cover ‘lower case’ semantic web topics in a few of my books). I think it is a shame that publicly accessible world knowledge graphs never really took off, but at least Google’s Data Commons is available for free for non-commercial, educational, and research uses.
- ramraj07 2y agoCould you provide any insight into why KGs work well in such places? Like a contrived example maybe?
- mark_l_watson 2y agoWell, from public information: Meta has a huge social graph that helps support their social media businesses, and Google has a wealth of real world knowledge. These graphs are, I think, optimized for super fast 1 millisecond level query latencies, and not a rich query language (for example, not something like SPARQL). I have just been looking at the Data Commons data sets, and I think I will add a fun example to my live Common Lisp eBook (and/or my Racket live eBook).
- zozbot234 2y ago> publicly accessible world knowledge graphs never took off Huh? What's wrong with Wikidata and the Linked Open Data cloud? These seem quite real to me.
- mark_l_watson 2y agoWell they didn’t ‘take off’ enough for me. I talked with TBL one time about the success of the Semantic Web, and I don’t want to misquote him, but I felt like he shared my view: great tech, but not used enough. I personally use WikiData and DBPedia, and I have for years.