In order to fulfill our Public Benefit Corporation mission to “Advocate publicly for improving the adoption, usability, and proliferation of open data and linked data,” we are committed to participate in educational outreach and foster research. Juan Sequeda, data.world’s Principal Scientist, who wears both a scientific and business hat, is uniquely positioned to lead the charge towards this vision. Juan joined us through the acquisition of Capsenta. Their technologies Ultrawrap and gra.fo were a huge key to our companies coming together. He and his team were attracted to our mission, and we were attracted to them because they had already been living key aspects of it on their own.
From an educational standpoint, Juan participated as an invited speaker at the 1st Summer School on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web in Cuba lecturing on building and designing Knowledge Graphs from databases. Additionally, at the Linked Data Benchmark Council Technical User Community meeting, co-located at SIGMOD, Juan presented the progress of the Property Graph Schema Working Group. Juan is the chair of this working group, which will provide recommendations to the upcoming Graph Query Language (GQL) standard.
There are several upcoming events where my co-founder and our CTO, Bryon Jacob, and Juan will be presenting on developing a hybrid data cloud, including Graphorum and ISWC. At the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), which is the premier conference on Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs, Juan will be the keynote at the Ontology Matching Workshop and present a tutorial about the history of Knowledge Graphs. And there are several other industry events where Juan has been invited to educate about Knowledge Graphs.
From a research perspective, we started to partner with top academic research groups in the world who investigate Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs. Our goal is to share real world problems where engineering may not be sufficient and research may be required. You can never have enough smart people in the room!
We are committed to disseminate our canada whatsapp number data research results. At ISWC, we will be presenting a paper that describes a methodology to design and build Knowledge Graphs that was developed and tested over the past few years at Capsenta. This methodology is being successfully applied with our customers.
Finally, Juan will be representing data.world at events with renowned scientists and thought-leaders such as the STI2 Semantic Summit, the Emerging Challenges in Data Management and AI Research Seminar, and the Big Graph Processing Systems Dagstuhl Seminar. The goal of these events is to discuss open challenges and provide a roadmap that can guide the future development of graph databases and Knowledge Graphs.
Commercialization of data.world
Over the past year, we’ve made huge strides commercializing and differentiating our data catalog. Our newest product overview is the best reflection of that journey. It is pretty staggering to think that employees of 327 of the Fortune 500 are in the data.world community, using us as a public data catalog. We’ve called ourselves the world’s largest collaborative data community, and that also makes us the world’s largest collaborative data catalog. This has helped us commercialize much faster. For example, when we test new tools and features, we reach statistical significance quickly. We continue to add new case studies, including this recent one with Aceable, and guidance the market is hungry for, such as How to Plan and Launch Your Modern Data Catalog. We are proud to be the cloud-native data catalog and virtualization platform powered by a Knowledge Graph. We know this is a game-changer for the industry because our customers see the results.
There is no doubt that the next year will be a very exciting one for us, and if you’ve made it this far into my annual letter please allow me to sincerely thank you for all of your support. There is no data.world community and catalog without you, and your feedback is always very welcome. And there is no data.world without our amazing team, truly the best startup team I’ve been a part of. Check out our culture and values—we just won our 4th annual Best Places to Work Award!