Since first presenting Creating Political Intelligence - A Journey Through Data at Dods in June 2024, Dods has moved from laying data foundations to operating live, AI-supported capabilities that are reshaping how political intelligence is structured, discovered and used.
Over the past two years, work to model the UK political landscape at Dods has focused on strengthening taxonomies, extending its ontology to capture increasingly rich relationships, and integrating AI through a mix of in-house development and specialist partners. This has enabled the launch of Dods Answers, an AI-powered search capability, alongside AI-supported auto-tagging across expanding content pipelines.
The challenges and how they were met:
- Challenges that arise when applying AI to complex political data.
- Data strategies used to support a wide range of client needs.
- The shift from manual tagging to an auto-tag-first approach.
- Evolving editorial and governance roles of content specialists.
- The next phase of the Dods architecture: aligning systems around shared taxonomies and ontologies, with the longer-term move towards a Dods knowledge graph.
Focusing on:
- Developing and operationalising taxonomies and ontologies.
- Embedding AI into content discovery and tagging workflows.
- Practical lessons from evolving taxonomy and ontology practices.
- How structured relationships in data support AI-driven services.