Ahren Lehnert, Author at Synaptica

Jan 10

Folksonomies, Crowdsourcing, and User Tagging

By Ahren Lehnert Knowledge Graphs, Ontology, Taxonomy Management

Ask Who? Taxonomies do not build themselves. Constructing any controlled vocabulary requires, at minimum, input from end users, subject matter experts, and a taxonomist. End users and subject matter experts can provide concepts and their attributes for inclusion…

Dec 01

Knowledge Graphs and Their Punk Rhizomatics

By Ahren Lehnert Knowledge Graphs, Taxonomy Management

Knowledge Graphs We have talked about knowledge graphs before in blogs, webinars, and conference workshops and presentations. Our partners at Ontotext also do a good job of describing knowledge graphs in their blog. So, I’m not going…

Nov 10

Graphite 5.0

By Ahren Lehnert Graphite, Ontology, Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management

Graphite KOS 5.0 Another year added to Synaptica’s 25 (+1) tenure and already we have our second major release of our knowledge organization system (KOS), Graphite, in 2021. We are continuing to update and evolve Graphite’s functionality to meet our…

Oct 25

Taxonomies Are Metadata

By Ahren Lehnert Taxonomy Management

Metadata At this point, we all live in the digital universe. We order our goods online, we conduct most of our business digitally, and we socialize and interact virtually. The internet of…

Sep 13

Taxonomies from A/B

By Ahren Lehnert Ontology, Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management

Comparing A to B While recently discussing taxonomy versioning with a few of our clients, they cited A/B testing as one of their use cases for creating taxonomy versions. In addition to creating point-in-time versions of…

Jul 28

Building Healthy Relationships (in Ontologies)

By Ahren Lehnert Controlled Vocabularies, Ontology, Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management

Relationships It is fundamental human nature to form relationships. Forming a relationship between two people is based on transparency, mutually beneficial outcomes, and trust. The world of online semantics is modeled on…

Jun 28

Facets Are Forever

By Ahren Lehnert Taxonomy

Facet-nating Recently, I was asked by one of our clients to consider writing about faceted classification and, specifically, how to go about an analysis to determine which facets should be…

May 27

Ontologies and Ethical AI

By Ahren Lehnert Ontology, Taxonomy

What Is Ethical AI? Ethical, or responsible, artificial intelligence (AI), “is the branch of the ethics of technology specific to artificially intelligent systems. It is sometimes divided into a concern…

Apr 27

Triples, Triads, and Semantics

By Ahren Lehnert Ontology, Taxonomy

Things in Threes There is an expression that good things come in threes. There is also an expression that bad things come in threes. In Semantic Web standards, specifically RDF, the atomic data entity is a tripartite structure called a semantic…

Mar 10

The Semantic Web or the Splinternet?

By Ahren Lehnert Ontology, Taxonomy

The Semantic Web As a taxonomist and employee of a company which publishes taxonomy and ontology management software, semantics and the Semantic Web are never far from mind. Semantics is “the study…

Ahren Lehnert

Folksonomies, Crowdsourcing, and User Tagging

Knowledge Graphs and Their Punk Rhizomatics

Graphite 5.0

Taxonomies Are Metadata

Taxonomies from A/B

Building Healthy Relationships (in Ontologies)

Facets Are Forever

Ontologies and Ethical AI

Triples, Triads, and Semantics

The Semantic Web or the Splinternet?

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