The Semantic Infrastructure Opportunity: Building Meaningful Operational Frameworks

About Our Contributing ExpertJessica TalismanKnowledge Infrastructure Strategist, Founder & Advocate of The Ontology Pipeline FrameworkJessica Talisman is a Semantic Engineer, Information Architect, and knowledge infrastructure strategist dedicated to building information systems. With more than 25 years of experience in enterprise architecture, e-commerce content systems, digital libraries, and knowledge management, Jessica specialises in transforming fragmented information into coherent, machine-readable knowledge systems.She is the founder of the Ontology Pipeline, a structured framework for building semantic knowledge infrastructures from first principles. The Ontology Pipeline emphasises progressive context-building: moving from controlled vocabularies to taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, and ultimately fully realised knowledge graphs.Professionally, Jessica has led semantic architecture initiatives at organisations including Adobe, where she architected an RDF-based knowledge graph to support Adobe’s Digital Experience ecosystem, and Amazon, where she worked in information architecture and taxonomy.