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TopQuadrant, Inc. announced today that it has achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance in accordance with American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

This video shows how to create a business glossary in TopBraid EDG and populate it with terms, definitions, and related descriptive metadata.

TopQuadrant announced the latest release of its flagship product, TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) 6.3.

TopQuadrant’s Irene Polikoff discusses why knowledge graphs will continue to be a top trend in Semantic Technology throughout 2020.

Learn about the latest release of TopQuadrant’s flagship product, TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) 6.3, as published on KMWorld.

Ralph Hodgson discusses how ontologies improve machine learning’s effectiveness in this article from insideBIGDATA.

Irene Polikoff, Ralph Hodgson, and Robert Coyne, discuss knowledge graphs in the resurgence of statistical AI in this article from AI Time Journal.

Irene Polikoff discusses how organizations can leverage information quality rules with SHACL.

This video demonstrates importing spreadsheet data into TopBraid EDG using Active Data Shapes scripting technology.

This video shows how TopBraid EDG can be used for comprehensive search within a given asset collection.

This is a longer, more advanced video targeted to users that already have some experience working with ontologies and Semantic Web standards.

In this video, we show how to configure the definitions of types of assets by adding new properties as well as deactivating pre-built properties.

This video demonstrates how to create and access tasks. TopBraid EDG supports formal workflows and offers lightweight ad hoc collaboration.

This video demonstrates creating a crosswalk and adding mappings using both manual and automated techniques.

This video describes how to create, load, and connect Reference Datasets in TopBraid EDG.

This video explores free text and parametric search capabilities within an asset collection.

This video demonstrates how TopBraid EDG administrators can set up and configure EDG Enumerations – controlled vocabularies used in TopBraid EDG.

This video provides an overview of the Home Page of TopBraid EDG and orients you in regards to the different navigation options.

This video introduces you to using SKOS-XL (SKOS Extension for Labels) in TopBraid EDG. SKOS-XL lets you treat labels as independent resources.

In this video you will learn how to create and re-use modular taxonomies. TopBraid EDG lets you easily combine and build connections between them.

In this video we build upon the “Creating a Taxonomy” video by extending the SKOS model with new classes that we use to upgrade our taxonomy..

This video explores editing in TopBraid EDG. Techniques demonstrated for editing concepts are applicable across all data and metadata within EDG.

This video demonstrates the use of Search the EDG. It provides Google-like search enriched with faceted search across information in TopBraid EDG.

This video explains shows how TopBraid EDG records and supports a detailed history of changes made to the information being managed and governed.

This video explains Menu actions available for assets (resources) in TopBraid EDG.

In this video you will see how to quickly create and edit taxonomies using the built-in capabilities of ToBraid EDG for Vocabulary Management.

TopBraid Live server was used to provide a Raw Material Assessment for a consumer goods company.

A global pharmaceuticals company decided to use TopBraid EDG to cleanse and curate the datasets.

An international bank used TopBraid EDG to catalog and connect data, technical, and enterprise assets at the business and technical levels.

A client turned to TopQuadrant for reference data management and vocabulary management, using TopBraid EDG as a centralized, shared repository.

A national transport infrastructure agency needed to improve the management of organization-wide data. Learn why they used TopQuadrant’s TopBraid EDG.

Learn how Kinnisnet is using TopBraid EDG for semantic mapping to create relatively homogeneous yet adaptable set of concepts and concept schemes.

This white paper discusses the TopBraid capabilities for importing and transforming spreadsheet data into structured information in RDF.

This white paper presents an overview of enterprise architecture solutions describes the power of semantic web technologies, such as TopBraid Suite.

This paper discusses the challenges with implementing a reference data management solution. It outlines best practices and describes capabilities.

The amount of digitized information is growing at unprecedented rate. Here we discuss the semantic web solutions at work within the enterprise.

This white paper discusses the TopBraid RDM solution, a reference data governance hub that comprehensively supports an enterprise’s IT portfolio.

This paper assists enterprises in maturing their Enterprise Information Management practices, specifically Reference Data Management.

This paper provides a brief overview of the importance of information governance — and data governance as a key component of it.

This white paper discusses Linked Data as a method of storing and sharing data that fundamentally differs from the relational database.

By connecting all kinds of data, semantic data management systems empower users to unlock the true meaning behind their business’s data.

Learn about the design of the Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Ontology Models (FEA RMO) and the five models that have been encoded in OWL.

Learn how Healthwise used TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance–Vocabulary Management (EDG–VM) to create a unified knowledge graph across domains.

EPIM used TopBraid to create an information management hub to enable sharing of information amongst government agencies and NCS operators/partners.

In this case study, an investment firm used TopBraid EDG to provide businesses with better and timelier access to information about data use.

Learn how Mayo Clinic uses TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance–Vocabulary Management to deliver intelligent results to end users in this case study.

Learn about the synergistic relationship between Data Governance, Knowledge Graphs, and enterprise applications of AI and ML in this white paper.

In this white paper, we compare the strengths and limitations of Knowledge Graphs versus Property Graphs and provide guidance on their capabilities.

Reflections of the webinar, poll results and frequently asked questions about what is a data fabric and how to implement it.

Learn about the new TopBraid EDG 7.1 features, like, a new visualization to enhance users ability to review models, understand data and more.

We fielded several questions as part of our recent webinar, "What's New in TopBraid EDG 7.1?" Read the blog for more.

Read part 2 of the Q&A from the webinar, "What’s New in TopBraid 7.1?"

Read what the experts, including Ralph Hodgson, CTO at TopQuadrant, predict will be the 2021 trends in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Read the Q&A from the webinar, “Interoperable Physical Asset Data Management and Digital Twins using Knowledge Graphs”

TopQuadrant™, a provider of data governance solutions using knowledge graphs, was named in 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Active Metadata M

This blog offers advice on selecting a direction of the graph relationships, supporting inverse relationships and naming a relationship.

Step by step examples for working with and evolving FIBO Vocabulary. Includes analysis of different option and a download file for the recommended app

This is the second blog on what modeling language we recommend to use when creating ontologies. In this blog I will talk about what I do use.

Watch the on-demand webinar to learn how metadata management must evolve to support data fabric.

At EDW, Irene Polikoff presented “Data Cataloging with Knowledge Graphs“. This is part 1 of the series exploring questions we received from attendees.

At EDW, Irene Polikoff presented “Data Cataloging with Knowledge Graphs“. This is part 2 of the series exploring questions we received from attendees.

In this blog, we will focus on one approach to reification, RDF-star, and its support in TopBraid EDG.

In this blog we discuss what reification is and how you can implement it when working with knowledge graphs.

This blog discusses why, after supporting OWL, Irene Polikoff, co-founder of TopQuadrant, has completely abandoned it in favor of SHACL.

Many of our customers have told us of the challenges of working with classonomies. To better understand what I mean by a classonomy, read this blog.

3rd blog in the series on DCAT data catalogs - why base your catalog on the EDG ontologies of enterprise data and how to align their use with DCAT.

Read the Q&A from our recent Webinar, "Data Cataloging with Knowledge Graphs".

In this webinar, TopQuadrant joined with TietoEVRY and Findwise to show how data governance combined with modern search can speed up digitalization.

In this webinar we discuss the architectural changes and explore new capabilities and enhancements of TopBraid 7.0.

Read the Q&A from the webinar, “Automating the Mapping of Data Elements to Business Terms”.

Read "Information governance 101: The regulatory compliance survival kit," from KMWorld, featuring Irene Polikoff and Robert Coyne.

In this webinar, we will describe how TopBraid EDG can help you automate this process of mapping data elements to business terms.

Watch the on-demand webinar to learn how standardized work processes and a knowledge graph-based environment support industry exchange requirements.

This is the second blog in our series about Open Data catalogs of datasets. We use EDG to host datasets downloaded from the EU Open Data Portal.

This blog is about the EU Open Data Portal, its capabilities and its use of RDF technologies and, specifically, DCAT vocabulary.

A business glossary is a collection of terms important to a business. In this blog we describe how TopBraid EDG can help you automate this process.

Many of our customers use TopBraid EDG ontologies to capture information about data and computer technology ecosystem. Learn about them in this blog.

In this blog, we explore approaches for post-processing a data source information to derive the foreign key relationships.

In this post we will walk you through using GraphQL to read and write information captured in TopBraid EDG.

Irene Polikoff discusses topics beyond the critical differentiators in the terminology and capabilities of Property Graphs and Knowledge Graphs.