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Meaning machines can read: glossaries, ontologies, semantic layers and standards for AI
Asked which learners are one microcredential away from a graduate certificate, Genie finds the right tables and still guesses wrong: the stacking rules sit in a policy and an old web page that disagree, and no managed glossary says which is current. The film shows four ways to write meaning down, how they stack, how one architecture map feeds the glossary, the data models and an ontology in OWL, and why standards save starting from blank.
Builds on What's in a word and Older than the systems
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You've seen why Genie guessed, and what it needs to read. Now try it yourself.
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