Ontologies, vocabularies, taxonomies and data spaces, delivered for international organisations, public administrations, research and industry.
Researchers looking for new drug targets searched several platforms one after another.
We turned the questions of biology and bioinformatics teams into competency questions, used them to select and validate a knowledge graph platform, and ran the induction that changed how researchers work.
Researchers query one integrated graph, with measured gains in accuracy and less time and effort per investigation.
A proof of concept framed around questions that took several teams to answer, such as which products depend on ingredients exposed to shortage or regulation. Its seed ontology links plants, work centres, products, ingredients and their origins.
A network of ontologies and a knowledge graph that reconciles the nomenclatures behind worldwide capture statistics, with federated query endpoints for the applications already in use.
An ontology of public services, life events and providers, and a national list of services published as open linked data built from municipal data.
A national statistics office needed a catalogue of tax-reporting classifications that its own team could maintain.
We designed a modular architecture from code lists to SKOS vocabularies, set up the editing, publishing and storage tools, turned existing spreadsheets into linked classifications, and built an editorial workflow from reviewer feedback to approved publication.
Workshops and step-by-step manuals prepared a team of eight to create and maintain the catalogue.
A review of a catalogue of ecology vocabularies against the FAIR principles, with recommendations on naming, documentation, version control, interfaces, community feedback and governance.
An assessment of a long-standing SKOS thesaurus against quality measures and the FAIR principles, and a plan for its move to a decentralised, collaborative editorial model.
The maintenance strategy and platform that keep linked data consistent across a network of institutions, from collection and linking to update propagation and consistency checks.
A multilateral development bank needed one way to classify the records produced by its daily work.
Focus groups and interviews across its offices captured the business from functions to transactions. We consolidated it into one business classification scheme and file plan, defined its governance and selected the platform to maintain it.
The scheme is the main structure for filing and archiving the bank’s records.
A collaborative method for a taxonomy of small modular and micro-reactors: audiences named, each discipline a facet, top concepts drafted with experts, and governance set from the start.
A data inventory across ecology, biology, economics and social science, and a national production register designed with controlled code lists maintained across local offices.
European public administrations needed to see shared vocabularies work in real data spaces.
Inside an EU-level semantic interoperability programme, we designed and supervised data space pilots in environment and mobility, monitored the digitalisation maturity of national administrations, and ran pairing exercises between member states.
Working demonstrations of semantic interoperability, and experience passed from one member state to another.
Our formal framework for measuring semantic convergence in governed ecosystems.
Our contribution on how to select semantic models in data spaces.
