Jessica Talisman: The Ontology Pipeline Knowledge Engineering Framework – Episode 57

Jessica Talisman

When the idea of the semantic spectrum was introduced 25 years ago, it was meant to be a conceptual tool to help programmers and architects understand the relative benefits of different levels of semantic effort.

Now, a couple of decades later, Jessica Talisman has repurposed the model as a way to organize the actual process of developing enterprise knowledge infrastructure, which she shares in her new book, "Ontology Pipeline: A Framework for Knowledge Engineering."

We talked about:

her new book, "Ontology Pipeline: A Framework for Knowledge Engineering"

the inspiration she took from Obrst's original semantic spectrum

her language-first approach to ontology

her pre-RDF semantic work with standards like Dublin Core

the three "warrants" from library science that guide functional requirements specification

the origins of her book in a 2018 Department of Justice project and its conceptual development in subsequent projects

how the ontology pipeline emerged from her process of incrementally delivering artifacts in projects

the importance of teasing out and addressing assumptions that can derail ontology projects