Trustworthy Metadata in the Age of AI: Foundations and Practice
Ontologies, SHACL validation, automated subject indexing, and AI-assisted cataloging: moving metadata professionals from cautious observers to active knowledge engineers.
Josh Falconer is Lead Data Taxonomist & Ontologist at The New York Times. He joins from Bloomberg, where he was Senior Ontologist modeling events and states for an enterprise knowledge graph, and was previously Ontologist at Indeed. For over a decade he served in bibliographic metadata cataloging roles focusing on Middle Eastern and North African manuscript collections at HMML and the Library of Congress.
His research interests center on knowledge organization systems, event representation, and cross-linguistic typology. He holds an MSLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is studying computer science at CU Boulder.
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Ontologies, SHACL validation, automated subject indexing, and AI-assisted cataloging: moving metadata professionals from cautious observers to active knowledge engineers.