alt Hacker NewsI would welcome any and all links or resources about learning more about ontologies, including anyone's personal practice of/with them.
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Dig into LinkML; I've been eye-deep in defining an ontology for my life (which I struggle to grasp), and just getting into the tools forced me to learn ... outward. There's so much cool stuff, and now I have a mental model as well as a machine-based thing I can talk to (obv an LLM) having a "shared understanding ".
I made OrchidDB to let people express ontology layers over an existing iceberg data lake. It's just a SQL lowering system with a datafusion core for everything else.
It seems to be nearly impossible to find good resources about the subject as they have been crowded out by AI-related SEO-sites. But have you started with W3C’s specs on the subject? Ontologies, linked data, RDF, etc. In Norway we have a government agency publishing local adaption and guidance for these concepts and standards, so that is at least two sources of information on the general concepts and syntax at least. What are you looking for?
If you're looking for breadth, here's a bunch of Wikipedia categories that I sometimes revisit to pick out something that sounds interesting and new:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Technical_communicati...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Knowledge_representat...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Information_science
It really is a idea-rabbit hole though, and kind of hard to stop yourself from wanting to create N new projects based on every new idea and perspective you come across.
SEP entry on "Ontology and Information Systems" is a good start: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontology-is/
If the preference is for books, I can recommend "Semantic web for the working ontologist: effective modeling for linked data, RDFS, and OWL". https://search.worldcat.org/title/1193030282
If the preference is for papers, two papers from Deborah McGuinness et al, from early 2000s are still my favorites:
- "Ontology development 101: A guide to creating your first ontology": https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
- "Ontologies come of age": https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...