How to Do Things with Ontologies

Channel: John Beverley

In this talk, John Beverley unpacks why ontologies are one of the most powerful tools for solving modern data problems, why philosophers are uniquely positioned to build them, and why the demand for ontology talent is skyrocketing. He covers the full landscape: – The scale of today’s Big Data problem – How information silos undermine value, veracity, and interoperability – Why ontology engineering provides a semantic solution – The Gene Ontology and the explosion of domain ontologies – How the Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) and Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) transformed ontology development – Why realism (vs conceptualism) solves major modeling failures – Case studies: viruses, organism definitions, virion modeling, pathogenic dispositions – The philosophical skills that make

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