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Taxonomies in Content Graphs

Taxonomies in Content Graphs: The Importance of Taxonomies in Building Graphs with Ian Piper

Friday, April 25, 2025 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

​About This Event

​Join us as taxonomist, ontologist and content architect Ian Piper reveals how taxonomies serve as the essential connective tissue in content graph development. In this practical session, you'll discover how SKOS taxonomies function as the "semantic glue" that holds together powerful content graphs. Content graphs are a special case of knowledge graphs that link content objects with matching taxonomy concepts and store the resulting “tagging facts” as semantic triples in a triple store.

​Ian will share actionable approaches for implementing taxonomies in graph environments, drawing from his extensive experience working with clients in banking, engineering, life sciences, and publishing.

​What You'll Learn

  • ​How to design content to facilitate effective taxonomy tagging

  • ​A real-world case study on transforming simple keyword lists into structured taxonomies

  • ​Practical approaches to entity extraction for matching taxonomy concepts with content objects

​Who Should Attend

​This session is ideal for information architects, content strategists, knowledge managers, taxonomy specialists, and anyone interested in enhancing content relationships through semantic technologies.

​About the Speaker

​Ian Piper is the Director of Tellura Information Services, specializing in designing and building information models, ontologies, and taxonomies for content classification. Following a career in pharmaceutical research, Ian established Tellura to deliver semantic web information services to clients across multiple sectors and countries. Follow Ian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianpiper/

Hosted by Taxonomy Talk

​Taxonomy Talk is a Discord community that is open to anyone working within information architecture and knowledge organization spaces, no matter their level of experience or knowledge. This includes people who work on, manage, or are responsible for taxonomies even as just part of their job.

​Registration is free but space is limited to 100.

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