A book by Jessica Talisman
Build semantic knowledge systems with trusted and AI-ready taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs.
From disconnected data to governed organizational knowledge.
The method
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Align labels, definitions, and synonyms.
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Describe the structure and context of information.
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Organize concepts into a navigable hierarchy.
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Connect related terms with richer relationships.
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Model formal classes, properties, and rules.
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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.
Controlled vocabularies, SKOS taxonomies, thesauri, RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL, and domain modeling.
Competency questions, semantic validation, and implementation patterns for systems that can be trusted.
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
Reader reviews
Early readers recommend Ontology Pipeline for its clarity, practical structure, and timely approach to knowledge work.
FROM THE COMMUNITY
Joseph Aranez · LinkedIn
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NEW! ONTOLOGY PIPELINE STUDIO
Introducing the Ontology Pipeline Studio — a working browser app for bringing the book’s six stages to life, inspecting the RDF you create, and exporting your work when you’re ready.
