Jessica Talisman
Semantic Engineer & Information Architect · Contextually LLC
Jessica Talisman, MLS, is a semantic engineer and information architect with 25+ years of experience spanning library science, taxonomy, ontology modeling, and enterprise knowledge graph development. She is the founder of Contextually LLC and creator of the Ontology Pipeline — a progressive semantic knowledge management framework — and founder of The Knowledge Graph Academy, a cohort-based training program for semantic engineers. Previously a Senior Information Architect at Adobe (where she architected an RDF-based knowledge graph for the Digital Experience ecosystem) and information architect at Amazon, she is authoring a book titled "Ontology Pipeline" scheduled for Fall 2026 publication.
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Semantic Engineering & Ontology Expert
Experience
25+ years in information architecture, ontology design, and enterprise knowledge graph development
Notable Work
Founder, Ontology Pipeline framework and The Knowledge Graph Academy; Senior Information Architect at Adobe (RDF knowledge graph for Digital Experience); Book forthcoming "Ontology Pipeline" (Fall 2026); Featured in Women In Data Influence in Data + AI Map
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