The Accidental Taxonomist

At last month’s Knowledge Graph Conference , in addition to knowledge graphs and graph databases, there is a growing interest in ontologies,...

One of the challenges in creating hierarchical taxonomies is that there can be multiple ways to categorize concepts and thus design hierarch...

In a recent conversation based on a LinkedIn post, someone asked “Why choose a taxonomy over an ontology?” This is a good question, since th...

In the past (such as my 2021 blog post " Attributes in Taxonomies "), I have explained that “attributes” serve as filters to refin...

At the Connected Data London (CDL) conference I attended last week, ontologies were humorously referred to as the “O” word. The thought was...

I was honored to be accepted to speak at the first “ Semantic Data ” conference in New York, a one-day event held on October 23, following t...

The question often comes up: how are taxonomies and ontologies different? While there are some short simple answers (such as: taxonomies are...

I have long felt that there is some uncertainty as to where named entities (names of specific people, places, organizations, products, etc...