Content Strategy Interviews

Katariina Kari Knowledge graphs let people and computers work from the same body of facts to create uniquely informative and powerful experiences. Katariina Kari and her colleagues at IKEA use ontologies and knowledge graphs to drive applications like recommendation systems and to streamline back-end processes like image recognition. Katariina balances her engineering expertise with a deep appreciation for the humans who create and use AI applications like knowledge graphs. We talked about: her work on IKEA's knowledge graph, in particular how their ontology brings meaning to their data model how web standards like RDF and OWL undergird ontology and knowledge graph work the benefits of codifying domain knowledge in a way that permits it to be used in multiple applications, e.g., both IKEA's recommendation system and an internal image-recognition app their system to capture subject matter expert insight in the knowledge graph with intuitive authoring tooling for the SMEs the three-tiered view th