Summary

In this chapter, you were exposed to a technology deep dive with lots of references to research and come up to speed on the topics of any blind spots. Then, we dove into three high level use cases. Although they may have lacked serious details, they have been portrayed descriptively enough for you to get the general idea. The challenge has always been to leverage your data in new ways and to organize it in a way that makes that possible. Data needs to be smart, fungible, and linkable.

Over time, the future will show us how trust can be enforced among the roles both within and external to your IT organization. Data silos will come down when the truth of the underliyng data is transparently preserved with formal semantics. Data consumers will know that the information presented is correct, complete, governed, and able to be used as intended. This makes the promise of an AI ecosystem a reality, because the errors are reduced during RAG processing, prompt engineering/tuning...