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                            work to tie all of your information assets together
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          Humans communicate via languages and terms, but differences between
          us create ambiguity — and, often, error — in what is being
          understood. These semantic differences are true for how we describe
          our perceptions of the world and the things that populate it.
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          Structured Dynamics is expert in semantic technologies; that is, the
          open standards, structures, and logic bases by which these
          differences can be identified and resolved to common understandings.
          Semantic technologies are an integral part in constructing the
          scaffolding of our information solutions.
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          Semantic technologies are the central component to mediating schema
          differences between datasets; driving the tagging of unstructured
          data; helping to resolve language ambiguities; and organizing the
          logical relationships amongst concepts. Our ability to accurately tag
          unstructured data (critical since 80% of information resides in text
          and documents) with matching domain concepts and entities means
          <span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">all</span> content
          is a first-class citizen in data integration. The open world approach
          underlying these semantic technologies also means that we can
          incrementally structure new information, while keeping all that has
          been built before intact.
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          The growth of the Web has resulted in some tremendous knowledge bases
          of entities and concepts, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata">Wikidata</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc">Cyc</a>. Also, virtually every
          domain — from finance to pharmaceuticals — has its own rich knowledge
          base. Many of these knowledge bases are freely usable: they can be
          mined for the concepts and schema that "ground" (or guide) the
          alignment of datasets in the wild.
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          To improve their computability, source knowledge bases need to be
          mapped to appropriate forms of data representation, best expressed
          as meaningful knowledge graphs (or "ontologies"). To help construct
          these graphs we use reference concepts, such as <a href="http://umbel.org">UMBEL</a> and domain ontologies, and best
          practices to describe the data. By testing against proven reference structures,
          we ensure these knowledge graphs can be built with coherence,
          satisfiability, and consistency.
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          The use of baseline, reference knowledge graphs allows enterprises to
          start small and build upon their existing information assets, as
          budgets allow. Soon, the enterprise's own structure becomes a form of
          universal "master data" applicable to internal data, both documents
          and structured, and to external parties and Web content.
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          What is new in artificial intelligence (AI) today is how these
          massive knowledge bases can inform and guide symbolic computing. The
          availability of these knowledge sources has fundamentally changed how
          AI is done. These AI improvements can then be fed back upon the
          knowledge bases to extend scope or discover previously hidden
          inconsistencies.
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          There is emerging a virtuous circle of improvement between AI machine
          learning algorithms and reference knowledge and statistical bases.
          Structured Dynamics combines semantic technologies, knowledge bases,
          and artificial intelligence. Such <a href="http://www.mkbergman.com/category/kbai/">KBAI</a> (knowledge bases +
          artificial intelligence) improves the accuracy, completeness and
          efficiency of traditional AI methods.
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          Proper mapping of knowledge bases to a coherent knowledge graph leads
          to efficient ways to train machine learners for purposes such as
          entity, relation or "fact" extraction; categorization and
          characterization; and disambiguation and tagging. These basic
          techniques also greatly automate the creating of mappings to external
          information sources.
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          Data interoperability begins with data integration, and integration
          requires attention to both structure and the actual data. Structure
          analysis involves the reviewing of concepts and terminology,
          suggesting consistent means for describing and managing datasets,
          finding and filling gaps, and then ensuring the resulting graph is
          properly connected and (comparatively) complete. Such analysis is
          often aided by testing against reference structures.
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          Data analysis involves traditional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_wrangling">data wrangling</a>
          tasks, but also often includes data quality and governance
          considerations. For re-use and integration purposes, metadata
          standards for data curation may also be involved.
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          Structured Dynamics analysis can either result in direct
          implementation or in documented practices for how your organization
          should stage and map its content. In either case, this analysis is
          also a foundation to business intelligence or knowledge management
          functions.
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          Structured Dynamics' Open Semantic Framework (<a href="http://opensemanticframework.org">OSF</a>) is a complete, turnkey,
          software stack for bootstrapping a semantic enterprise. OSF is a
          tangible expression of our skills in semantic technologies and
          software development. OSF showcases our use of structure to not only
          organize information, but also to help guide how software platforms
          may operate and how data may be visualized.
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          OSF combines third-party software with our own open-source
          components. The entire OSF stack is designed for complete
          interoperability. The innovative heart of OSF is a layer of 30 Web
          services that abstract any instance of the OSF stack and enable
          distributed information sharing — via a diversity of data formats —
          Web-wide with built-in access controls suitable to enterprise needs.
          All of Structured Dynamics' capabilities may be expressed through
          OSF.
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          SD also has many scripts, converters and mappers, often written in
          <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming">functional
          programming</a> languages, to support these capabilities. <a href="http://umbel.org/web-services/">APIs</a> and <a href="http://wiki.opensemanticframework.org/index.php/Main_Page">documentation</a>
          are a special strength of Structured Dynamics' coding capabilities.
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          Structured Dynamics is a company of ideas. We are proven innovators
          with a passion for finding ways to interoperate information at low
          cost using adaptive and flexible methods. We take the best ideas from
          research and our own labs and modify them to work with your existing
          assets and capabilities.
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          Though our longest standing expertise has been in semantic
          technologies, we also know that big data, the Web, knowledge bases,
          and artificial intelligence are remaking our world at unprecedented
          speed. It is in the nexus of these forces that the next-generation
          enterprise IT demands will emerge.
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          Research and engagement are essential in such a fast-moving
          environment. We welcome your hard problems. Let us show how we can
          fulfill your data integration challenges with impressive speed at low
          cost. And, in the process, you'll build a foundation suitable for an
          unknown yet rapidly changing future.
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