Weekly Knowledge Graph News Roundup [28 February 2025]
Welcome back to another weekly news roundup from around the knowledge graph industry for the week ending on February 28th, 2025.
KG Community & Discussions
GraphGeeks in Discussion with William Lyon: From Neo4j to Dgraph by Amy Hodler [GraphGeeks]
Call for Papers, Presentations & More
Call for Workshop Proposals – CausalNeSy | Portoroz, Slovenia | Submission deadline: 15 March
Call for Posters – Knowledge Graph Conference | New York City | Submission deadline: 7 March
Call for Papers – Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB) | Kanazawa, Japan | Submission deadline: 16 March (deadline extended!)
Call for Abstracts – Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) | Catania, Italy | Submission deadline: 23 March
Call for Research & Innovation Papers – SEMANTiCS 2025 EU | Vienna | Submission deadline: 25 April
Call for Abstracts – International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) | Nara, Japan | Submission deadline: 6 May
Fundraising News
Kodesage: $2.3 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised To Update Enterprise IT Systems [Pulse 2.0]
Articles, Editorial, & Hot Takes
Why Use RDF by Kurt Cagle [Substack]
Getting Work as a Taxonomist by Heather Hedden [The Accidental Taxonomist]
Why open source is even more important in an AI-powered world by William Lyon [Hypermode]
Diffbot’s AI Model Suggests “Smaller Is Better” for LLMs by Franklin Okeke [Techopedia]
Knowledge Graph Events
Hackathon: Enterprise RAG Challenge – Remote / Worldwide – Kickoff on Thursday, 27 February
Workshop: An Introduction to Taxonomy Design & Creation (adjacent with IAC: Information Architecture Conference) – Philadelphia – Tuesday, 29 April
Research & Papers
Construction, Deployment, and Usage of the Human Reference Atlas Knowledge Graph for Linked Open Data [PubMed]
Tech Deep Dive & Applications
Identifying causal relationships with knowledge graphs and large language models [metaphacts blog]
Transforming supply chain sustainability and risk management through embedded AI [WTW]
G.V() 3.21.49: Spanner Graph support, graph visualization improvements & more! [G.V() blog]
xAI Releases Grok 3 Beta: A Super Advanced AI Model Blending Strong Reasoning with Extensive Pretraining Knowledge [MarkTechPost]
Entity Resolved Knowledge Graphs: How They Work & Why They Matter [Senzing blog]
The Data Structures That Drive Quant & AI by Steve Wilcockson [Finextra]
From Enterprise Silos to Data Governance: The Graph Center of Excellence [GraphWise blog]
KGGen: Advancing Knowledge Graph Extraction with Language Models & Clustering Techniques [MarkTechPost]
Knowledge Graph Jobs
Jr. Solution Architect (Remote / U.S.) – Stardog
Database Analysis & Development Manager – Ontology / Knowledge Engineering (Hybrid / U.S.) – Wolters Kluwer
Assistant/Associate Professor in Neuro-Symbolic Natural Language Processing (Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France) – Télécom Paris
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