We invite you to join us for the next installment in the NSF CI Compass webinar series featuring Cogan Shimizu, associate professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where he directs the Knowledge and Semantic Technologies (KASTLE) lab. Shimizu will be giving a presentation titled "Knowledge Representation across the OKN."
This webinar will be hosted on Tuesday, December 15, from 3-4 p.m. ET | 2-3 p.m. CT | 1-2 p.m. MT | Noon to 1 p.m. PT.
Registration is free and required.
Abstract
It takes a lot of work to make interoperable 17 graphs from different institutions. This talk addresses both the methodological process of producing a reusable knowledge representation across the Open Knowledge Network (OKN), but also what the end design looked like: modeling choices, URI usage, and reuse from the broader Semantic Web and Linked Open Data cloud. This talk should be considered a complement to the CI Compass Webinar, “The Open Knowledge Network: Connecting Data Across Domains” by Chris Bizon on November 10, 2026.
Bio
Cogan Shimizu is an associate professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, USA, where he directs the Knowledge and Semantic Technologies (KASTLE) lab. His research focuses on the use of patterns in knowledge engineering, broadly defined, but especially for the purposes of explainability, interoperability, and improved extensibility of knowledge graphs.
He is the PI for several NSF projects related to the formulation and dissemination of knowledge- and semantics enabled technologies: An Education Gateway for the Proto-OKN, A Feasibility Study for a Translational Institute for Knowledge Axiomatization, and Prototyping a new Knowledge Resource for modern AI (Proto-KAI).
