NEWS & EVENTS
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News

metaphactory 4.6 delivers improvements to search, user experience and ontology modeling
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 4.6 which delivers improvements to the search experience, enhancements to the ontology modeling capabilities, as well as other improvements to th...

metaphacts is featured in article on data management challenges and trends by GEN
In a recent article on data management challenges and trends in biotech and published by GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News), metaphacts COO Daniel Herzig-Sommer spoke about the importa...

Innovation Fund Monitor developed by metaphacts & partners aims at improving the quality of care in statutory health insurance in Germany
The German Federal Joint Committee (GBA) has the task of promoting new forms of care projects provided by statutory health insurance as well as healthcare research projects that aim to gain knowledge ...

metaphactory 4.5 supports tight interlinking between ontologies and vocabularies
We are happy to announce the release of metaphactory 4.5 which delivers tight interlinking between ontologies and vocabularies, a new faceted filtering component, as well as multiple other improvement...

metaphacts is included in KMWorld's 2022 list of 100 companies that matter most in knowledge management
We're excited to announce that metaphacts has been included in KMWorld's 2022 list of 100 companies that matter most in knowledge management - a list of inventive knowledge management companies whose ...

metaphactory 4.4 introduces flexible data cataloging capabilities to experience data in context
We are excited to wrap up a fruitful 2021 by announcing the release of metaphactory 4.4 which comes with new data cataloging capabilities, a new look & feel, enhancements that further streamline t...

KMworld Drill Down Interview with Sebastian Schmidt
Today, organizations need to make information accessible to all their users, not just a select few. But getting information to the people in an organization who need it, when they need it, continues t...

metaphactory 4.3 delivers new pathfinding interface for investigative knowledge graph exploration & targeted problem solving
We're happy to announce the release of metaphactory 4.3 which comes with a new, intuitive pathfinding interface that supports end users both in exploratively investigating relations between nodes in a...

Webinar Recording: Graph path search with GraphDB 9.9 and metaphactory 4.3
We had a great time delivering this webinar together with our partner Ontotext.
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metaphactory 4.2 lowers the barrier for Knowledge Graph application building with interactive wizards
We're delighted to announce the release of metaphactory 4.2 which makes building Knowledge Graph applications easier than ever through interactive, no-code wizards for setting up and configuring searc...

Presentation Recording: Beyond FAIR Data - Consumable Knowledge for R&D Innovation
We had a great time presenting at this year's Pistoia Alliance Spring Conference together with Sabine Schefzick, Director of Science and Clinical Analytics and Analytic Innovation at Pfizer.
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metaphactory 4.1 extends knowledge modeling capabilities to include support for managing vocabularies
We're happy to announce the release of metaphactory 4.1 which further bridges the gap between IT and business by providing essential tools for knowledge modeling and model-driven decision making.
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Webinar Recording: Accelerated R&D with a FAIR Data Fabric in Life Sciences
We had a great time delivering this webinar together with our partner Ontotext.
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Webinar Recording: Generate Value from Your Knowledge Graph in Days
We had a great time delivering this webinar together with our partner Ontotext.
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metaphactory 4.0 Introduces Visual Ontology Modeling for Domain Experts and Business Users
We are extremely pleased to announce the release of metaphactory 4.0 - a major release that delivers groundbreaking Knowledge Graph Asset Management capabilities with particular focus on ontologies.
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KompAKI Project Kickoff Meeting
The "Competence Center for Work and Artificial Intelligence in the Rhine-Main Area" (Kompetenzzentrum für Arbeit und künstliche Intelligenz im Rhein-Main-Gebiet – KompAKI), met in a virtual setting on...

metaphacts Participates in KompAKI Research Project on Cooperative AI Solutions for the Workplace
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in software applications and has the potential to revolutionize the way we work. However, research regarding the impact of new technology on the...

metaphactory 3.6 introduces new components and enhancements for a richer user experience
With every product release we strive to deliver new features and improvements that tackle real-world challenges and customer pain points. metaphactory 3.6 introduces a series of new components and enh...

metaphactory 3.5 caters to end users, developers and knowledge graph experts with new search, federation and visual graph interaction features
We are proud to announce the release of metaphactory 3.5 which features exciting, user-centric search, federation and visual graph interaction components. These new components cater to user needs acro...

Sebastian Schmidt appointed as Co-CEO alongside metaphacts founder and CEO Peter Haase
We are extremely excited to announce that Sebastian Schmidt has been appointed as Co-CEO alongside metaphacts founder and CEO Peter Haase, effective July 1, 2020.
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metaphacts aims to strengthen the Knowledge Graph community as key contributor to the Eclipse RDF4J open source project
At metaphacts we believe that a strong open source community is key to continuous innovation and collaboration. That's why we are committed to strengthening the Knowledge Graph community by taking an ...

metaphacts Achieves Amazon Linux 2 Ready Designation
We are proud to announce that metaphacts has achieved the Amazon Linux 2 Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program, and was included as an official Amazon Linux 2 ...

metaphactory 3.4 Reduces the Time to Market for Knowledge Graph Applications
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 3.4 featuring multiple extensions and revamps to reduce the time to market for Knowledge Graph applications, increase performance and stability, ...

AWS Marketplace lists metaphactory as first Graph Data Management Solution and references joint success story at Siemens Gas and Power
We are excited to announce that metaphactory is now available as the first solution for graph data management on AWS Marketplace.
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New Release - metaphactory 3.3
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 3.3. This release comes with multiple user interface and security extensions that will tremendously improve customer day-to-day operations and en...

New Release - metaphactory 3.2
metaphactory empowers customers to build and manage their own knowledge graphs, extract the most value out of their data, and reach smarter business decisions. It supports knowledge graph management, ...

Building Biodiversity Knowledge Graphs
A recent paper published by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and presented at Biodiversity Next 2019 describes how metaphactory and Wikidata are implemented to build an Integrated Flora of Canada and ...

Materials Science Knowledge Graph at Bosch
Aiming to support engineers in developing and introducing new materials for production, Bosch is building a knowledge graph that exposes material science knowledge and supplies high-quality answers ab...

metaphacts acquires VISmart and enriches metaphactory with Sputniq, the commercial version of Ontodia
metaphacts, creator of the leading knowledge graph platform metaphactory, today announced the acquisition of VISmart Ltd.
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metaphacts 3.1 Released
metaphactory empowers customers to build and manage their own knowledge graphs, extract the most value out of their data, and reach smarter business decisions. It supports knowledge graph management, ...

Interview with Peter Haase for SEMANTiCS 2019: Just Start Working On Your Knowledge Graph
In this interview with the SEMANTiCS 2019 team, metaphacts CEO Peter Haase talks about his career and fascinating experiences, as well as about metaphacts' mission to make knowledge graphs a technolog...

metaphactory 3.0 lowers the entry barrier to gaining value from knowledge graphs
At metaphacts we continuously strive to deliver the best software solutions to meet our customers' requirements for building, managing and interacting with enterprise knowledge graphs. Today, we are e...

Exploring Knowledge Graphs on Amazon Neptune using metaphactory
In a new AWS blog post, users can learn how to get started with knowledge graphs using metaphactory and Amazon Neptune, and without any prior knowledge of RDF or SPARQL. The blog post explains how to:...

metaphactory 2.4 is here!
We are excited to wrap up 2018 by announcing the latest metaphactory release. The 2.4 release comes with various extensions to our platform components, including:
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Industrial Knowledge Graph at Siemens
An article discussing the Siemens Industrial Knowledge Graph was recently included in the Online Themenspecial, a newsletter published by the German IT magazine OBJEKTspektrum.
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metaphactory for data.world
We are excited that metaphactory was recently featured in a blog post on data.world! The blog post explains how customers can easily use data.world together with metaphactory to rapidly build new appl...

metaphactory now available on AWS Marketplace
We are proud to announce that metaphactory for Amazon Neptune is now available on AWS Marketplace!
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metaphacts is CyberForum Member
We are delighted to announce that metaphacts is now a member of CyberForum, the largest hightech business network in Europe!
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metaphactory 2.3 is here!
At metaphacts we continuously strive to deliver the best software solutions to meet our customers' requirements for constructing, managing and interacting with enterprise knowledge graphs.
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We are hiring!
Do you want to be part of a team that strives to develop cutting-edge products and solutions for their customers and users? Then join metaphacts!
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Siemens and metaphacts showcase Enterprise Knowledge Graphs on Amazon Neptune
Siemens and metaphacts are among the first Amazon Neptune users and show several use cases for enterprise knowledge graphs using the new service and metaphactory.
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DATAVERSITY features Onboarding Enterprise Knowledge Graphs with metaphactory
In the latest DATAVERSITY.net article discussing the adoption of enterprise knowledge graphs, Jennifer Zaino, a DATAVERSITY® contributor, provides a detailed account of metaphacts' position in the sem...

metaphacts acquires SearchHaus and adds smart data search engine GraphScope to its portfolio
metaphacts today announced the acquisition of SearchHaus, a startup specialized in search solutions for graph data, thus expanding its product portfolio as well as its team.
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metaphacts presenting at ResearchSpace Cultural Heritage Symposium
metaphacts CEO Peter Haase will be presenting at the ResearchSpace Symposium taking place July 27-28 at the British Museum in London.
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metaphacts has moved to new offices
We are happy to announce that we have relocated to new office spaces in Walldorf, Germany.
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ResearchSpace Public System
metaphacts and the ResearchSpace consortium recently released a public system showcasing the powerful semantic search functionalities delivered by the ResearchSpace platform.
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Blazegraph GPU promises extreme scaling and is 100x faster
The memory bandwidth advantages of GPUs provide a great way to accelerate data-intensive analytics and graph analytics in particular. Graph query and iterative graph analytics has demonstrated signifi...
Events

metaphacts Presentation at KI.produktiv 2022
On September 19, 2022, metaphacts CEO, Sebastian Schmidt, will be giving a presentation at KI.produktiv 2022 during which he will discuss how explicit knowledge modeling and Machine Learning can enabl...

In-person metaphacts Customer Advisory Board Meeting 2022
We're extremely excited to be hosting our next Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meeting as an in-person event on September 27, 2022 in the beautiful city of Heidelberg, Germany.
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metaphacts at MAKEathon 2022
metaphacts is an active contributor to this year's MAKEathon coming up on Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2022 at the FHNW Campus in Olten, Switzerland.
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metaphacts at BioTechX 2022
metaphacts is a Bronze sponsor at this year's BioTechX conference, Europe's largest congress covering diagnostics, precision medicine and digital transformation in pharmaceutical development and healt...

metaphacts Sponsors ESWC 2022
metaphacts is a Bronze sponsor of the Extended Semantic Web Conference for the 7th consecutive year. The ESWC is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations a...

metaphacts at the SIRIUS Spring General Assembly 2022
We're looking forward to the SIRIUS Spring General Assembly taking place on May 11-12 in Oslo, Norway. SIRIUS is a Norwegian Centre for Research-driven Innovation that addresses the problems of scalab...

metaphacts at BioIT World Conference & Expo 2022
We're looking forward to the BioIT World Conference & Expo, coming up on May 3-5 in Boston, MA, United States, where metaphacts is a Gold sponsor!
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metaphacts at The Knowledge Graph Conference 2022
We're looking forward to the Knowledge Graph Conference, coming up on May 2-6 in both the beautiful Cornell Tech campus (New York, NY, United States) and globally online.
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metaphacts Customer Advisory Board Meeting
The metaphacts Customer Advisory Board (CAB) met in a virtual setting on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for their commitment as CAB members and for,...

metaphacts Presentation at Wikidata Data Reuse Days 2022
On March 21, metaphacts Founder & Director Peter Haase will be giving a presentation at the Wikidata Data Reuse Days 2022.
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metaphacts at BioData World Congress 2021
We're looking forward to the BioData World Congress, coming up on November 2-4 in Basel, Switzerland, where metaphacts is a Bronze sponsor! BioData World is Europe's largest congress covering big data...

Knowledge Espresso
On October 28, 2021, metaphacts CEO Sebastian Schmidt and metaphacts Solutions & Sales Director Kai Preuss will be participating in a Knowledge Espresso organized by The Knowledge Graph Conference...

Ontotext Knowledge Graph Forum 2021
We're honored to be a part of the Knowledge Graph Forum, organized by our partner Ontotext and are looking forward to showing how our low-code platform metaphactory can help customers accelerate their...

metaphacts at ISWC 2021
For the 7th consecutive year, metaphacts is a sponsor of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), taking place October 24-28 as a virtual conference. ISWC is the premier international forum f...

Upcoming Webinar: Graph path search with GraphDB 9.9 and metaphactory 4.3
We're happy to announce our next joint webinar with Ontotext where Tomas Kovachev (Software Developer, Ontotext) will provide a hands-on tutorial on how GraphDB supports exploring paths between nodes ...

Mid-year metaphacts Customer Advisory Board Meeting
The metaphacts Customer Advisory Board (CAB) met in a virtual setting on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for their commitment as CAB members and for o...

metaphacts Sponsors ESWC 2021
metaphacts is a Bronze sponsor of the Extended Semantic Web Conference for the 6th consecutive year.
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Join us at the Pistoia Alliance Spring Conference!
We're excited to be a sponsor and presenter at this year's Pistoia Alliance Spring Conference taking place in a virtual setting on April 20-21 & 23.
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Upcoming Webinar: Accelerated R&D with a FAIR Data Fabric in Life Sciences
We're looking forward to this joint metaphacts and Ontotext webinar where Sebastian Schmidt (Co-CEO, metaphacts), Todor Primov (Head of Research and Innovation, Ontotext) and Ilian Uzunov (Sales Direc...

Third metaphacts Customer Advisory Board meeting
The metaphacts Customer Advisory Board (CAB) met for the third time in a virtual setting on Thursday, March 18, 2021. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for their commitment as ...

Upcoming Webinar: Generate Value from Your Knowledge Graph in Days
We're looking forward to this joint metaphacts and Ontotext webinar where Sebastian Schmidt, Co-CEO at metaphacts and Todor Primov, Head of Research and Innovation at Ontotext will discuss our proven ...

Attend our presentation at Knowledge Connexions 2020!
We are excited to be a Gold sponsor and presenter at this year’s Knowledge Connexions Conference (KnowCon 2020).
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Join us at the BioData World Congress 2020!
We're looking forward to the BioData World Congress 2020 which just started this week and where metaphacts is a Silver sponsor!
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Second metaphacts Customer Advisory Board meeting
The metaphacts Customer Advisory Board (CAB) met for the second time in a virtual setting on Thursday, October 8, 2020. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for their commitment a...

First metaphacts Customer Advisory Board meeting
The metaphacts Customer Advisory Board (CAB) met for the first time in a virtual setting on Thursday, July 2, 2020. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our customers - among others Allianz, Pf...

Fresh Gravity and Stardog Webinar: Scoping Clinical Trials with a Knowledge Graph
We're looking forward to this webinar hosted by Stardog and Fresh Gravity on June 4, 2020 at 11 am EST / 5 pm CET.
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metaphacts sponsors ESWC 2020
This is a challenging time for the entire world as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps spreading across countries. It has taught us a lot about flexibility and adjusting to a changing environment. It is great...

metaphacts at ISWC 2019
For the 5th consecutive year, metaphacts is a Gold sponsor of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), taking place October 26-30 in Auckland, New Zealand. ISWC is the premier international f...

metaphacts Keynote at ESWC 2019
metaphacts CEO Peter Haase is a Keynote Speaker at this year's Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), taking place June 2-6 in Portoroz, Slovenia.
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Smart Data for Firefighters, E-Commerce, and Governments at our next Meetup, March 22, 7PM
Our next Smart Data Meetup will take place on March 22, 2019 at 7.00 pm at the econda office in Karlsruhe. Beside news and updates from both metaphacts and Stardog, we have three technical talks lined...

metaphacts at ISWC 2018
For the 4th consecutive year, metaphacts is a Gold sponsor of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), taking place October 8-12 in Monterey, California.
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metaphacts sponsors CIDOC 2018
metaphacts is sponsoring this year's CIDOC-ICOM Conference taking place in Heraklion, Crete from September 29 to October 5.
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metaphacts is Gold Sponsor of ISWC 2017
For the third consecutive year, metaphacts is a Gold sponsor of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017).
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metaphacts contributes new dataset to QALD2017 challenge
The three DIESEL project partners – metaphacts, Zazuko and the University of Leipzig – teamed up with the HOBBIT project to provide a new dataset for the QALD7 challenge, which is taking place at the ...

Getting Started with Knowledge Graphs – metaphacts Tutorial at ESWC 2017
metaphacts founder and CEO Dr. Peter Haase will be holding a tutorial at the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) taking place in Portoroz, Slovenia on May 28-June 1.
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Geomarketing driven by Knowledge Graphs - metaphacts at CeBIT 2017
As a member of the GEISER consortium, metaphacts will be exhibiting and showcasing its solution for data-driven geomarketing at CeBiT 2017, held in Hannover, Germany on March 20-24.
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Getting Started With Knowledge Graphs - metaphacts Tutorial at Smart Data 2017
Dr. Peter Haase, Founder and CEO of metaphacts, will be presenting at the Smart Data Conference held in San Francisco on January 30-February 1, 2017.
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Blazegraph and metaphacts sponsoring ISWC 2016
Blazegraph and metaphacts are sponsoring the International Semantic Web Conference 2016.
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Rhein-Neckar Smart Data Meetup
metaphacts will be presenting at the inaugural meetup of the Rhein-Neckar Smart Data Meetup on December 9, 2015 in Heidelberg.
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metaphacts sponsoring and exhibiting at ISWC 2015
Together with Blazegraph, metaphacts is Gold sponsoring the International Semantic Web Conference 2015.
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