A book by Jessica Talisman
Build semantic knowledge systems with trusted and AI-ready taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs.
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From disconnected data to governed organizational knowledge.
The method
01
Controlled vocabulary
Align labels, definitions, and synonyms.
02
Metadata schema
Describe the structure and context of information.
03
Taxonomy
Organize concepts into a navigable hierarchy.
04
Thesaurus
Connect related terms with richer relationships.
05
Ontology
Model formal classes, properties, and rules.
06
Knowledge graph
Make shared knowledge queryable across systems.
Why it matters
Language, definitions, labels, synonyms, metadata, and relationships shape the performance of AI systems. Ontology Pipeline shows how library and information science methods can become practical infrastructure for human understanding and machine reasoning.
Strong AI starts with clear context—not just more content.
For data leaders, semantic engineers, ontologists, taxonomists, knowledge managers, librarians, AI architects, and enterprise data teams.
Inside the book
Go beyond theory with guidance on the standards, methods, and operating conditions required for trustworthy enterprise knowledge systems.
Shape the semantics
Controlled vocabularies, SKOS taxonomies, thesauri, RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL, and domain modeling.
Validate the model
Competency questions, semantic validation, and implementation patterns for systems that can be trusted.
Govern the work
Semantic debt, staffing, funding, change management, and validation workflows for the long term.
The bigger shift
AI is accelerating that transition because it depends on more than well-managed data. It depends on context, shared meaning, trusted relationships, and the ability to organize vast stores of unstructured knowledge.
As AI becomes the primary interface to enterprise information, knowledge management becomes the foundation for trustworthy AI at scale.
IN THE FIELD
The book in the world.
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