Jessica Talisman

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...

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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...

New essay: The Internet of Probability.

The internet is quickly changing. Truth is a game of probability.

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Ontology 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.

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.

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Where Provenance Ends, Knowledge Decays I am an AI realist, not a skeptic.

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.

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A Practitioner’s Guide to Taxonomies, Part III Formalizing with SKOS

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!

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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...

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
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A Practitioner's Guide to Taxonomies, Part II Building Your First Taxonomy Without SKOS

Part II of a Practitioner’s Guide to Taxonomies is now live!

Building Your First Taxonomy without SKOS

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And thank you @karensmiley.com

Found same group has 4 derivative articles, also plagiarized. 🙄

The Trillion-Dollar Rebranding Plagiarism, VC Marketing, and the Erosion of Truth in the Age of AI

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 📚

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A Practitioner's Guide To Taxonomies, Part I The Prep Work

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!

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You Can't Afford to NOT Hire an Expert Domain Experts Are Not Mere Gatekeepers

New essay just published!

Domain expertise in knowledge management is critical, as we march forward with AI.

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Process Knowledge Management, Part III How We Lost Our Way

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.

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Controlled Vocabulary Part I Foundations for Semantic Integrity

Most recent essay

Controlled vocabularies

Foundations for Semantic Integrity

THIS is context engineering 💡

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Metadata as a Data Model Part II: Semantic Theater and Governance

Metadata as a Data Model Part II, Semantic Theater is now published!

Join me on my Substack

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Metadata as a Data Model Part I

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 😉

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@jtalisman.bsky.social has been busy this year - and will have much new goodness to share at Data Day Texas 2026
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Why AI Isn't Autonomous (Yet) Part III: What Agentic AI Needs

Why AI Isn’t Autonomous (Yet):

What Agentic AI Needs

Spoiler 🚩🚩🚩 it has to do with #knowledge

#ai #IA #taxonomy #ontology #graphs

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New article: this is Part I of a three part series.

Why AI Isn’t Autonomous (Yet)

Part I: open.substack.com/pub/jessicat...

The Ontology Pipeline A Semantic Knowledge Management Framework

This happens as part of entity reconciliation and management. See my Ontology Pipeline article

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Starting with the taxonomy and proliferating throughout, this is about orchestration and alignment. Building entity reconciliation and entity management utilities is critical to a knowledge infrastructure.

The Ontology Pipeline A Semantic Knowledge Management Framework

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Re-publishing my piece on the Ontology Pipeline. I welcome feedback!

And sharing is always appreciated 😊

#semantics #ia #ai #ontology #taxonomy #knowledgegraph

From Metadata to Meaning: The Knowledge Infrastructure “The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.”

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

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Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’ An example of AI attempting to summarizing nuanced reviewed of Hitler's Nazi manifesto turned into an example of algorithms eating themselves.

Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’
#Trump #MAGA #GOP #Republicans #AI #Nazi

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This is a great article and such an interesting historical lens. Thanks!

@jennajordan.me loved meeting you in person. When dan we start that knitting circle?

@jennajordan.me book club?