#59 Knowledge Graphs as the Engine for Collaboration Across Data - KGC Takeover Interview w/ Philippe Höij and Guest Host Ellie Young

Sign up for Data Mesh Understanding's free roundtable and introduction programs here: https://landing.datameshunderstanding.com/Please Rate and Review us on your podcast app of choice!If you want to be a guest or give feedback (suggestions for topics, comments, etc.), please see hereEpisode list and links to all available episode transcripts here.Provided as a free resource by Data Mesh Understanding / Scott Hirleman. Get in touch with Scott on LinkedIn if you want to chat data mesh.Transcript for this episode (link) provided by Starburst. See their Data Mesh Summit recordings here and their great data mesh resource center here.Ellie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sellieyoung/Philippe's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoijnet/Philippe's Twitter: @hoijnet / https://twitter.com/hoijnetDFRNT website: https://dfrnt.com/Knowledge Graph Conference website: https://www.knowledgegraph.tech/Free Ticket Raffle for Knowledge Graph Conference (submissions must be by April 18 at 11:59pm PST): Google FormIn this episode of the Knowledge Graph Conference takeover week, special guest host Ellie Young (Link) interviewed Philippe Höij, Founder at DFRNT.At the wrap-up, Philippe mentioned that data architects should be able to communicate in ways other than PowerPoint. We need new and better ways to express ourselves, and the way things are connected. We will always need metadata around our data, we need text to express our ambiguity; but we don't have great ways to express things that are slightly ambiguous - not fully formed but also mostly known. A good tool allows to more easily query your model of the world to iterate and increment on it. That is where knowledge graphs can be the most helpful. Ellie responded, "It's not difficult, it's just complicated."Philippe shared his journey towards knowledge graphs, especially thinking about the AIDITTO project he and a team built out of the "Hack the Crisis Sweden" event in 2020 around COVID-19. He needed a way to prototype, visualize and collaborate on data and the connections between data at scale. A regular data model does not convey enough information about what the data is and how it relates.Ellie then shared some insight into the difficulties around collaborating on data across organizations and people in her climate change work at Common Action....