Use Case: Ontologies and RDF-Star for Knowledge Management

Abstract

Our client in this case study is a software company which develops, publishes, and distributes video games for consoles, PCs, smartphones, and tablets in both physical and digital formats. They also create educational and cultural software, cartoons, and literary, cinematographic, and television works. It owns several brands and a diversified portfolio of franchises.

The client required a centralized vocabulary management software platform to provide standardized concepts across a decentralized, global organization to find, browse, and discover enterprise content. They needed the ability to push vocabularies out to consuming systems and users while also allowing users to suggest new concepts without requiring them to log in to the taxonomy and ontology management software.

In addition to the out-of-the-box Graphite ontology management software functionality, the client required bespoke work in the system and dedicated API connectors which became part of the common code base for all versions going forward. Their requirements presented the opportunity for Synaptica to explore uses for the new specification, RDF-star (Arndt et al. 2021), in our implementation. As a new and developing specification in RDF graph databases, the use of RDF-star is groundbreaking work for commercial enterprise ontology management systems.