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Jessica Talisman

@jtalisman.bsky.social

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 28/09/2026

Guess what just got delivered from @bookshop.org … My copy of Ontology Pipelines by @jtalisman.bsky.social! Can’t wait to dive in 🥳

Bella (my dog) looking at my new book, Ontology Pipelines by Jessica Talisman

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Want to put my book, Ontology Pipeline, to practice? In August of 2026, I published my Intentional Arrangement SKOS editor on GitHub, a tool to support your build of vocabularies in RDF. Ontology Pipeline book:https://www.ontologypipeline.com/bookpage github.com/jesstalisman...

GitHub - jesstalisman-ia/intentional-arrangement-skos: Build, validate, visualize, and publish SKOS taxonomies in your browser — standards-first, single self-contained file, with a REST API and MCP se...

Build, validate, visualize, and publish SKOS taxonomies in your browser — standards-first, single self-contained file, with a REST API and MCP server. - jesstalisman-ia/intentional-arrangement-skos

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ontology Pipeline, A framework for building knowledge infrastructures, is now available at booksellers, worldwide! a.co/d/00S7bQRn www.ontologypipeline.com/bookpage#buy

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wow! #17 on Amazon computers and technology bestsellers list ❤️ a.co/d/01oss2Si

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My book, Ontology Pipeline, is out today! Order: a.co/d/0fYstEYK

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Knowledge from the library science perspective. jessicatalisman.substack.com/p/knowledge-...

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Knowledge Management is the Vibe

A history of knowledge management through the library and information sciences

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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In her new book, #Ontology Pipeline: A Framework for Knowledge Engineering, @jtalisman.bsky.social repurposes the #semanticSpectrum as a way to organize the process of developing enterprise #knowledgeGraphs. A very edifying conversation - check it out. knowledgegraphinsights.com/jessica-2/

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Jessica Talisman: the ontology pipeline for knowledge engineering

Jessica Talisman is a knowledge graph expert and the author of "Ontology Pipeline: A Framework for Knowledge Engineering"

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 05/09/2026

Local third-grader made a major miscalculation when complaining to me about the awesome Lucha Libro event at the library. "It's so VIOLENT! Libraries are supposed to be QUIET spaces." Oh child. That Karen nonsense might work with your dad but I have an MLIS and strong professional opinions here.

Lucha libro wrestlers in the middle of a match outside the library in Berkeley

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In honor of Labor Day in the US. Ever wonder why knowledge is missing from organizations? jessicatalisman.substack.com/p/the-contex...

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The Context Game

Knowledge Management and the Great Unbundling. Every organization deploying AI is running the same experiment and rendering the same results. The agent fails, workflows cannot be accurately described...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Follow me on my journey as I build RDF Wiki and the Semantic Lair 🐅 substack.com/@jessicatali...

RDF Wiki and The Semantic Lair

When a tool promises to organize my knowledge, I read the fine print. I was compelled to create the Semantic Lair about a month ago, first, as a tongue-and-cheek rendition of the semantic layer so wid...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

RDF Wiki and the Semantic Lair 🐅 jessicatalisman.substack.com/p/rdf-wiki-a...

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RDF Wiki and The Semantic Lair

When a tool promises to organize my knowledge, I read the fine print. I was compelled to create the Semantic Lair about a month ago, first, as a tongue-and-cheek rendition of the semantic layer so wid...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Intentional Arrangement SKOS Editor • Tool overview • Explanation of the tool features • Link to the live web app demo • Link to the GitHub repository This is the complete package and the perfect companion tool for my upcoming book, Ontology Pipeline. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Intentional Arrangement SKOS Thesaurus Editor

Build a Concept Graph, Generate RDF, Validate and Export

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Most semantic layers are built by producers for producers. The semantic layer is missing meaning. substack.com/@jessicatali...

Semantics, Evolved

Definitions, Concepts and the Semantic Layer Most enterprise definition work is graded by the people who wrote it. A working group convenes, argues, writes a sentence into the catalog, marks the field...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

How'd we arrive at our current version of AI? This is a journey and a historical narrative. I hope you enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Augmentation Before Automation

Maybe you’ve heard the saying before: augmentation before automation. Augmentation before automation is the blending of these two philosophies, and holds the belief that automation can only be success...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Plagiarism is becoming more rampant throughout information and knowledge networks, thanks to the convenience of AI. Don't become a victim to plagiarism, as a consumer, author or artist. Speak up and call it out. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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How to Plagiarize

A Practical Field Guide

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This essay is meaty but there was no way around that. I dispel misunderstandings about ontologies, found in the comments section on LinkedIn 😉. It’s all about logic—no way around that fact. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Ontologies, Misunderstood

Forms, Instances, Logic, Reasoning and Inference. Dispelling five myths about ontologies and bringing clarity as to what an ontology is composed of.

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I have a new essay out. Not an Ontology. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Not an Ontology

On data sovereignty, knowledge infrastructure and meaning. Three emerging trends so far, in 2026. Data sovereignty, knowledge infrastructure and meaning. Five products promise to deliver. But do the...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Curious about ontologies? This essay breaks down the anatomy of an ontology, namely RDF. It dives into RDF as symbolic AI and segues into neurosymbolic AI. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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RDF and Symbolic AI

A Neurosymbolic AI Primer

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This was a huge undertaking in terms of research. And there were lots of arcs to weave and so many more that were not included. Taxonomies are the interoperability surface, between human and machine worlds. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Taxonomies, All the Way Down

Skills, tool catalogs, routers, retrieval, risk registries—the newest agent architectures keep arriving at the same layer, and it is a pillar of library and information science.

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

New essay about labeled property graphs (LPGs) and RDF knowledge graphs. What’s the difference? open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Choosing the Right Graph

When to Use a Labeled Property Graph and When to Use an RDF Ontology-Based Knowledge Graph and when might you need both?

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is an update of an article I published in December, 2025, as part of my process knowledge management series. If you’re wondering how we ended up with this context gap, it’s important to understand the outsourcing of knowledge work and it’s implications. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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The Context Gap

What We Lost When We Sent the Work Away When we sent manufacturing to China, India and the Philippines, we divested from the opportunity to learn, iterate, fail and improve. We eliminated critical fee...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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On process knowledge and the results of decades of outsourcing knowledge work.

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Build an RDF SKOS vocabulary with just a spreadsheet and your web browser. I put this tutorial together for just enough semantics. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Kitchen Semantics

A Recipe for Building Your First RDF Semantic Layer

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This essay was in response to an abrasive interaction on LinkedIn. Consider me the Taylor Swift of content about data and semantic systems open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Language is the Bridge

There is a reason we call them language models. It is the kind of sentence that sounds obvious until you sit with it and look around your digital environments. Large Language Models. Not large knowled...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Does Agile work for knowledge? open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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A Two-Week Sprint for Knowledge

From Agile to Design Thinking. Scrum assumes tame problems that can be time-boxed, estimated with planning poker, decomposed into user stories, tracked on a velocity chart and declared done against a ...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Interested in learning how to build knowledge graphs? Here’s part two of the knowledge graph series. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Knowledge Graphs, Part II

The Enterprise Knowledge Graph is built for breadth across organizational systems. The Domain Knowledge Graph is built for depth within a single field of expertise. The Linked Data Knowledge Graph is ...

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Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ontology Pipeline™️, Refresh. It’s been more than a year, so I figured it’s time for a refresh. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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The Ontology Pipeline™, Refreshed

Where We Were, Where We Are, and the Future

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 25/02/2026

I think this is my new favorite blog post/essay from @jtalisman.bsky.social: "Where Provenance Ends, Knowledge Decays" jessicatalisman.substack.com/p/where-prov... #datasky #dataBS 📚

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Where Provenance Ends, Knowledge Decays

I am an AI realist, not a skeptic.

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Pete Aven @wpaven.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Excellent breakdown of how the word "context" is currently being abused, what it actually means (in a given context) and how it relates to the current state of token economics. So many well researched insights and choice quotes by the author in this. Lengthy article but very much worth the read.

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A ton of research went into this essay. Discipline is the ability to exercise taste and taste requires judgement. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Discipline is Taste

About the intelligence of discipline and how taste is discipline.

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This context silliness is showing us how insane the AI industry is. Try to define the word in a room full of technologists and tell me how it goes 😂 open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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The Context Problem

Token Economics, the Cost of Context and the Word That Means Everything

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

New essay: The Internet of Probability. The internet is quickly changing. Truth is a game of probability. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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The Internet of Probability

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming the internet, from a repository of knowledge into an engine of plausibility. When AI models came online for general use, the internet was already existing...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Ontology Part I The Architecture of Meaning This essay is the first in a four-part series. I’ll break down concepts, bring clarity to what an ontology is and is not. I’ll share resources, standards, and help you get started modeling and building ontologies. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Ontology, Part I, The Architecture of Meaning. Disseminating confusion around what an ontology is and is not. Overview of qualifiers for ontologies, looking at standards and protocols.

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Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

When a model ingests carefully documented claims, it strips its provenance, l unattributed text,and replicates the exact mechanism by which historical knowledge has always been lost — only now it happens millions of times a day, across every domain. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Where Provenance Ends, Knowledge Decays

I am an AI realist, not a skeptic.

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

It’s here: A Practitioner’s Guide to Taxonomies, Part III Formalizing with SKOS This essay and tutorial has all you need to build a validated, RDF SKOS taxonomy. Happy building! open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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A Practitioner’s Guide to Taxonomies, Part III

Formalizing with SKOS

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 01/02/2026

Throughout the talk I also referenced a few amazing librarians & data practitioners who inspired and informed the content. Please follow them and their work! Jessica Talisman On bluesky as: @jtalisman.bsky.social Find content at: jessicatalisman.substack.com

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Intentional Arrangement | Jessica Talisman | Substack

I am an Information Architect and Semantic Engineer. I have been organizing and building digital knowledge ecosystems since 1997. Intentional Arrangement is the name of my book Intentional Arrangeme...

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Part II of a Practitioner’s Guide to Taxonomies is now live! Building Your First Taxonomy without SKOS open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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A Practitioner's Guide to Taxonomies, Part II

Building Your First Taxonomy Without SKOS

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Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Foundation Capital’sContext Graph article, published Dec 22, plagiarized my four-part process PKM essays published between Dec 3—Dec 18. Counted three more articles by same group: also plagiarized. I’m a librarian so of course I’m calling it out 📚 open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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The Trillion-Dollar Rebranding

Plagiarism, VC Marketing, and the Erosion of Truth in the Age of AI

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

New essay out—the first installment in a three part series about taxonomies. Curious how to build a taxonomy? Not sure of where to start or what’s required? Head on over to my Substack! open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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A Practitioner's Guide To Taxonomies, Part I

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Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New essay just published! Domain expertise in knowledge management is critical, as we march forward with AI. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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You Can't Afford to NOT Hire an Expert

Domain Experts Are Not Mere Gatekeepers

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

How We Lost Our Way I’ve been absent from Blueskye for a minute. Catching up on all things writing, here’s part three of my Process Knowledge Management series. open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Process Knowledge Management, Part III

How We Lost Our Way

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Most recent essay Controlled vocabularies Foundations for Semantic Integrity THIS is context engineering 💡 open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Controlled Vocabulary Part I

Foundations for Semantic Integrity

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Metadata as a Data Model Part II, Semantic Theater is now published! Join me on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Metadata as a Data Model

Part II: Semantic Theater and Governance

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

My ✨new✨ Substack article: Metadata as a Data Model. The foundation of this piece is a reflection on how library science informs metadata systems in contrast to how enterprises manage metadata. A hint: in library science, metadata systems are data models 😉 open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Metadata as a Data Model

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Data Day Texas @datadaytexas.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

@jtalisman.bsky.social has been busy this year - and will have much new goodness to share at Data Day Texas 2026 datadaytexas.com

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Why AI Isn’t Autonomous (Yet): What Agentic AI Needs Spoiler 🚩🚩🚩 it has to do with #knowledge #ai #IA #taxonomy #ontology #graphs open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Why AI Isn't Autonomous (Yet)

Part III: What Agentic AI Needs

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

New article: this is Part I of a three part series. Why AI Isn’t Autonomous (Yet) Part I: open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

open.substack.com/pub/jessicat... Re-publishing my piece on the Ontology Pipeline. I welcome feedback! And sharing is always appreciated 😊 #semantics #ia #ai #ontology #taxonomy #knowledgegraph

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The Ontology Pipeline

A Semantic Knowledge Management Framework

Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I’ve written a piece about knowledge infrastructure and why you need it. From Metadata to Meaning: The Knowledge Infrastructure Enjoy! #ai #Ia #taxonomy #ontology #knowledge open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

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From Metadata to Meaning: The Knowledge Infrastructure

“The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.”