Webinar
From Questions to Ontology: Designing for Business Value
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Thursday, August 27 | 2PM ET
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What It's About
Many ontology initiatives begin with the data an organization already has: databases, schemas, taxonomies, and existing data models. But beginning with the available data can lead teams to build an ontology that is technically sound without being connected to a clear business need.
A more effective approach starts with competency questions: the specific questions the business needs its data, applications, and AI systems to answer.
In this webinar, ontology expert, Jessica Talisman, and Stardog Senior Product Manager, Laura Firey Monroe, will discuss how competency questions can guide ontology design from the beginning. They will explain how teams can use business questions to define the scope of an ontology, identify the concepts and relationships that matter, and determine what data is actually needed to support a high-value use case.
The session will provide a practical framework for designing ontologies that do more than organize information. They help organizations answer important questions consistently, connect knowledge across systems, and create a semantic foundation that can be reused across future use cases.
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What We'll Cover
- What competency questions are and why they are essential to ontology design
- How to translate a business need into clear, answerable questions
- Why starting with available data can lead to overly broad or misaligned ontology projects
- How competency questions help define the right scope for an initial use case
- How to identify the concepts, relationships, rules, and data required to answer those questions
- How to evolve existing schemas, taxonomies, and data models into a more complete ontology
- How a question-driven approach aligns business stakeholders, data teams, and ontology practitioners