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On the Hunt for Patterns: from Hippocrates to Supercomputers

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Ever since Hippocrates founded his school of medicine in ancient Greece some 2,500 years ago, writes Hannah Fry in her book Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms , what has been fundamental to healthcare (as she calls it “the fight to keep us healthy”) was observation, experimentation and the analysis of data.

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The Semantic Web: 20 Years And a Handful of Enterprise Knowledge Graphs Later

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We rather see it as a new paradigm that is revolutionizing enterprise data integration and knowledge discovery. There are more than 80 million pages with semantic, machine interpretable metadata , according to the Schema.org standard. Below, we outline the two directions in which we at Ontotext see and build the Semantic Web.