Another Unique Use for Semantic Technology

June 29, 2012 / Melody Smith /

Poderopedia is a project that aims to promote greater transparency in Chile by mapping and visualizing the relationships among the country’s elite. To achieve this, semantic technologies are being utilized to store and query data. These technologies represent a diverse set of relations among entities (people, companies, organizations) in a flexible way. By identifying the power and influence of people, key Chilean political, civic, and business leaders can be identified. OWL (Web Ontology Language) is being used to define the vocabulary because it provides the semantic richness needed.

PBS’s Idea Lab brought this topic to our attention in their article, “For Poderopedia, It’s All About Semantics.” Learn more about Poderopedia here.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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