Building, Using, and Maintaining Ontology-enabled Resources

Deborah McGuinness, RPI and McGuinness Associates Consulting

Ontologies are seeing a resurgence of interest and usage as big data proliferates, machine learning advances, and integration of data becomes more paramount. The previous models of sometimes labor-intensive, centralized ontology construction and maintenance do not mesh well in today’s interdisciplinary world that is in the midst of a big data, information extraction, and machine learning explosion.