Press Release: “The U.S. National Science Foundation announced today the launch of the NSF Open Knowledge Network (NSF OKN), a national open-data infrastructure that links 43 interconnected knowledge graphs and tens of billions of connected facts across health, the environment, justice, manufacturing, and national security. The network is live and open to the public at okn.us.
NSF OKN provides a structured, persistent, verifiable knowledge layer to complement contemporary artificial intelligence models, providing grounding of facts, attribution, and knowledge governance essential to critical AI applications in a number of fields. OKN’s value goes beyond machines querying structured knowledge: Its deeper value provides AI systems with a shared, explicit, interoperable, and auditable representation of the world on which they are expected to reason and act…(More)”.