Trendy Ontology

October 13, 2010 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Trendy Ontology

October 13, 2010 – With the term “ontology” being heard more often in data management forums and discussions, it is no surprise to see it as the topic of Malcolm Chisholm’s latest post on Expert Channel. Despite the frequency of the term’s use, it is not easy to find out precisely what it means and what significance it might have for the data management community. Is it just a buzzword for marketing purposes or is it real?

Malcolm Chisholm, Ph.D., has over 25 years of experience in enterprise information management and has worked in a wide range of sectors. To get some answers to this and other questions, he interviewed someone who is relying heavily on ontology—Felix Van de Maele, CEO of the semantic start-up Collibra. This interesting article was found on BeyeNETWORK in their article, “The Rise of Ontology: A Conversation with Felix Van de Maele.” Take time to read this interesting interview, but remember that for effective taxonomy development, you need a professional with extensive experience in helping clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.