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In this episode, Kristina Podnar and Ian Davis discuss how AI reveals the importance of information quality and the foundational concepts necessary for successful AI deployment.

AI is forcing organizations to confront a reality they have often ignored for years: information quality matters. In this episode, Kristina Podnar sits down with taxonomist and knowledge management expert Ian Davis to explore why concepts like taxonomy, ontology, semantic modeling, and knowledge graphs have become critical foundations for successful AI deployment. Together, they discuss how AI exposes weaknesses in fragmented information environments, why metadata and information architecture...

People in this episode

Host: Kristina Podnar

Guest: Ian Davis

Topics covered

• information quality
• AI deployment
• knowledge management
• taxonomy
• metadata
• information architecture

Keywords

• AI
• information quality
• taxonomy
• knowledge management
• metadata
• information architecture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI, taxonomy, ontology, semantic modeling, knowledge graphs

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