Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (2005)
I enjoyed this piece, mostly because I disagree so strongly with it :-). Clay takes the topic of Ontology, contextualizes it into an impractical domain, and then calls it overrated. Cars are overrated too because they can&#x27;t cross oceans right?<p>When done correctly, ontology combined with knowledge graphs can make an impractical problem much more practical. Consider for the moment the problem of &#x27;fake news&#x27;. What characterizes &#x27;fake news&#x27; is that it has facts or concepts that are not in alignment with &quot;true&quot; facts (authoritative). And without getting into the debate of what is and isn&#x27;t true, you can take a document, a knowledge base populated with trusted facts, and a topic ontology and score that document for alignment with the existing data set. Whether you use that for checking Wikipedia articles or flagging fake news its a very powerful combination.