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Jessica Talisman is a semantic engineer and information architect with more than 25 years of experience building knowledge infrastructure across enterprise architecture, e-commerce content systems, digital libraries, and knowledge management systems.

She has led semantic architecture initiatives at Adobe, Amazon, Overstock, Pluralsight, Senzing, Vanguard, the U.S. Department of Justice, and in client engagements at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation.

Jessica is the creator of the Ontology Pipeline, a framework that moves from controlled vocabularies through taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies to fully realised knowledge graphs. As the founder of Contextually, LLC, Jessica works with clients to model ontologies, integrate natural language processing, and design knowledge graphs. She also collaborates with The Knowledge Graph Academy, a cohort-based program training the next generation of ontologists and semantic engineers.

Jessica publishes the Substack newsletter Intentional Arrangement and is the author of Ontology Pipeline: A Framework for Building Knowledge Infrastructures (Technics Publications, 2026).