While Knowledge Graph hype is nowhere near as loud as AI hype, there is no question that more and more organizations are turning to knowledge graphs to solve real-world problems. However, just as with any data solution, there are times when, after the initial acquisition of a knowledge graph solution, companies and IT managers, particularly, wonder what exactly it is they have acquired. All too often, this can result in knowledge graph solutions sitting largely under-utilized because no one can figure out what it's for. Knowledge graphs can make a big difference, but you need to understand these going in and be willing to commit to the project for the long haul. A knowledge graph is, in many ways, a garden, something that you plant and carefully tend, with the dividends coming out over years rather than necessarily all at once.

Knowledge portals provide views onto domainspecific information on the World Wide Web, thus helping their users find relevant, domain-specific information. The construction of intelligent access and the contribution of information to knowledge portals, however, remained an ad hoc task, requiring extensive manual editing and maintenance by the knowledge portal providers. To diminish these efforts, we use ontologies as a conceptual backbone for providing, accessing, and structuring information in a comprehensive approach for building and maintaining knowledge portals. Hence, services flourish that put up knowledge portals for a well-structured orientation on the web. Although there are some general-purpose knowledge portals such as Yahoo, the majority of knowledge portals, however, are domain-or market-specific and serve a particular clientele, for example, Look-Look, which offers structured access to trends in youth culture for companies with an interest in this market.

Knowledge portals provide views onto domain-specific information on the World Wide Web, thus helping their users find relevant, domain-specific information. The construction of intelligent access and the contribution of information to knowledge portals, however, remained an ad hoc task, requiring extensive manual editing and maintenance by the knowledge portal providers. To diminish these efforts, we use ontologies as a conceptual backbone for providing, accessing, and structuring information in a comprehensive approach for building and maintaining knowledge portals. We present one research study and one commercial case study that show how our approach, called seal (semantic portal), is used in practice.

Knowledge portals provide views onto domain-specific information on the World Wide Web, thus helping their users find relevant, domain-specific information. The construction of intelligent access and the contribution of information to knowledge portals, however, remained an ad hoc task, requiring extensive manual editing and maintenance by the knowledge portal providers. To diminish these efforts, we use ontologies as a conceptual backbone for providing, accessing, and structuring information in a comprehensive approach for building and maintaining knowledge portals. We present one research study and one commercial case study that show how our approach, called seal (semantic portal), is used in practice.