My upcoming book 🤸♂️
Ontology Pipeline 9•2026 🚀
For more than I a year, I have been working on a book, Ontology Pipeline. The book teaches how to build:
⚪️ controlled vocabularies
⚪️ taxonomies
⚪️ metadata schemas
⚪️ thesauri
⚪️ ontologies
⚪️ knowledge graphs
It’s now official! The book will be published by Technics Publications and will be available September/October, 2026.
This was no small feat but made easier thanks to Substack readers. I tested content and tutorials on my Substack, using reader feedback to finetune the how-tos while bringing readers along on my writing journey.
To celebrate, I am offering 45% off annual subscriptions to my Substack newsletter, Intentional Arrangement, through July 4th. The discount give you access to my paid content for $3.21/month.
I am continuing to offer how-tos and deeper thinking pieces as I work towards my 2nd book, Intentional Arrangement. This one will be about knowledge management and infrastructure.
Here’s an ask, from you 🖐
I can’t decide. I have two choices for the color of the spine of the book. Can you help me decide? Which do you prefer? Blue spine or white spine? Let me know your thoughts, in comments. Your input means the world.
👉 Blue Spine
👉 White Spine
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about me. I’m a Semantic Engineer, Information Architect, and knowledge infrastructure strategist dedicated to building information systems. With more than 25 years of experience in enterprise architecture, e-commerce content systems, digital libraries, and knowledge management, I specialize in transforming fragmented information into coherent, machine-readable knowledge systems.
I am the founder of the Ontology Pipeline™, a structured framework for building semantic knowledge infrastructures from first principles. The Ontology Pipeline™ emphasizes progressive context-building: moving from controlled vocabularies to taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, and ultimately fully realized knowledge graphs.
Professionally, I have led semantic architecture initiatives at organizations including Adobe, where I architected an RDF-based knowledge graph to support Adobe’s Digital Experience ecosystem, and Amazon, where I worked in information architecture and taxonomy. I am also the founder of Contextually LLC, providing consulting and coaching services in ontology modeling, NLP integration, knowledge graphs and knowledge infrastructure design.
I am also a curriculum designer, teacher and founder of The Knowledge Graph Academy, a cohort-based educational program designed to train and up skill future semantic engineers and ontologists. The Academy is the the perfect balance of ontology and knowledge graph theory and practice, preparing graduates to confidently work as ontologist and semantic engineers.
An educator and thought leader, I publish regularly on my Substack newsletter, Intentional Arrangement, where my writing frequently explores the relationship between semantic systems and AI.
Definitely white
can’t decide. I have two choices for the color of the spine of the book. Can you help me decide? Which do you prefer? Blue spine or white spine? Let me know your thoughts, in comments. Your input means the world.
Blue for the organization