Jamie McCusker

The Opinionated Ontologist

I'm Jamie McCusker, the host of The Opinionated Ontologist, a weekly podcast where I discuss Graph AI in all its forms (neurosymbolic AI, knowledge graphs, semantics, knowledge representation, and, of course, generative AI). I interview thought leaders in academia, industry, and culture who are researching, creating, and using graph AI to solve real problems. We discuss current trends and historical context, as well as provide introductions to concepts in Graph AI as needed. Since I am the Opinionated Ontologist, I also will add my own thoughts on topics in separate Op Ed episodes. Hosted on A...

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Latest episode

May 23, 2025

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Episodes

What's in a Triple? 23.05.2025

We discuss reification using the W3C draf recommendation RDF 1.2, modeling choices, and how the approach is similar to, and different from, edge properties in Labeled Property Graphs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

KGC-palooza! 09.05.2025

This week I was at the Knowledge Graph Conference, the biggest industry Graph AI conference out there! I spoke with Bob Metcalfe of network effect fame, Peter Crocker of Oxford Semantics, and a huge KGC crew of ontologists, technologists, and knowledge graph experts. Featuring: Bob Metcalfe Peter Crocker Mara Inglezakis Owens Margaret Warren Pete Rivett Hande McGinty Tom Plasterer Ora Lassila Keit...

What's so Basic about BFO? 06.05.2025

We continue our mini series on upper level ontologies with an episode on the Basic Formal Ontology, or BFO. John Beverley of University at Buffalo joins us. John is the current steward of BFO, and works with its founder Barry Smith on its use in domain applications. For more information about BFO, visit their github page at https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO-2020 . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Upper Ontologies: gist 12.04.2025

This week we discuss the upper level ontology gist with its creator, Dave McComb. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What Does Medicine Mean? 06.04.2025

Chime Ogbuji joins me to talk about the role of medical informatics in knowledge graphs and semantics, all the way from MYCIN and GALEN to today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Careful with that Predicate, Eugene! 26.03.2025

Properties are the workhorse of ontologies, where semantics really happen. So be careful when you make a new one! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's So Hard to Understand? 20.03.2025

Keith Corbett and Grace Roessling join us for a discussion about learning RDF, OWL, and knowledge graphs. Keith: For nearly 50 years, Keith has been a technical communicator, data modeler, and knowledge engineer. Then and now, he has explored the intersections of deterministic AI, hypertext, and graph data.  Grace: Grace is a PhD candidate cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...

What's an Ontology? 12.03.2025

In this episode, Deborah McGuinness and I discuss ontologies: what's in them, what they're used for, what makes them good, and how to go about making them. Notes and links: Deborah McGuinness: https://tw.rpi.edu/person/Deborah_L_McGuinness The Ontology Spectrum: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221024668_Ontologies_Come_of_Age Schemas vs ontologies: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SchemaVsOntology...

What are we talking about? 05.03.2025

Today we flip the script: Prof. Zara Waldman DeLuca interviews Jamie on the fundamentals of knowledge graphs and ontologies, and they talk about some of the social, linguistic, and cognitive aspects of human vs machine cognition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How does RAG work with KGs? 26.02.2025

Today I was joined by David Hyland-Wood to discuss how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) works with Knowledge Graphs. We also talked about LLM bullshit, and the relationship between RAG systems, knowledge graphs, and open-source large language models, and explore the importance of modeling knowledge graphs for effective output. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whatever Happened to Autonomous Agents? 19.02.2025

Today, start at the beginning, and talk with one of the fathers of the Semantic Web, Ora Lassila. We take a look at the origins of the semantic web in autonomous agents, talk for a while about why the design of RDF works the way it does (and how it's different from Labeled Property Graphs), and what the future of autonomous agents might be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

What are we even doing here? 13.02.2025

In which I test the audio settings and tell you what's coming. Visit our Patreon at patreon.com/OpinonatedOntologist to support this podcast! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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