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Ontologies & Knowledge Graphs

Ontologies and knowledge graphs are not simply technical artifacts. In life-science organizations, they are governance, collaboration, and interoperability instruments.

Innovation Horizons supports ontology and knowledge-graph initiatives where the challenge is to align experts, concepts, identifiers, data owners, and use cases across organizational boundaries.

Typical questions

  • Which concepts need to be aligned first?
  • How should public identifiers, controlled vocabularies, and internal data models connect?
  • What is the minimum useful semantic layer for a practical use case?
  • How can a pre-competitive ontology be governed and sustained?
  • How do semantics support FAIR data, AI readiness, and active metadata?

Possible outputs

  • Concept-scope facilitation.
  • Ontology use-case framing.
  • Governance and sustainability model.
  • Roadmap for semantic interoperability.
  • Stakeholder-alignment workshops.
  • Translation between technical and executive audiences.

Relevant experience

Giovanni manages the Pharma General Ontology project at the Pistoia Alliance and contributes to work around FAIR data, semantic interoperability, and knowledge infrastructure in pharmaceutical R&D.