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While Europe was simmering in the summer heat, it was winter in South Africa and thereby primetime to do indoor activities, like attending a virtual summer school on AI for climate change—which I did.

We had this idea of developing a modular ontology about the semantics of noun classes for Niger-Congo B (‘Bantu’) languages and make it a module in an existing network of ontology modules about linguistics.

I’m organising a half-day tutorial entitled “Good ontologies and how to develop them” at ISWC 2026 in Bari, Italy, on 25 or 26 October 2026 (you can still register for it).

(Note: there’s some context afterwards.)

TL;DR: yes, and for sure in public procurement.

If it were a LinkedIn post, I suppose I’d be expected to write what I’ve learned, how it made me a better person, give advice for newbies, and how humbled I am with the continued support from the subscribers and casual readers alike.

We’ve been working on devising a generic system that can generate educational questions, answers, and explanatory feedback from ontologies.

People ask me questions from time to time that are squarely in the realm of professional ethics, probably because I’ve taught computer ethics for a good number of years, co-authored lecture notes on social issues & professional practice (now called ‘socie…

Let me start the new year with a long overdue topic to write about: low-resourced languages (LRL).

This is a more concrete follow-up to the previous somewhat theoretical post on ontologies not being just RDF.

Over the past few years that I’ve been peeking and dabbling outside computer science and the ivory tower of academia more than before, I noticed a disturbing trend, or perhaps even entrenched practice, of talk about “RDF ontologies” and of “ontologies rea…

A bottom-up approach to knowledge graph development may be in part alike bottom-up ontology development from existing and legacy resources, but for sure also involves other tasks, and perhaps principally so.