Data Bricklaying Diary

Sep 6, 2026 · Fundamentals

Standard Ontologies Aren't Business Schemas: How to Map Changing Terms to Stable Models

The article argues that standard ontologies and business schemas serve distinct roles—ontologies provide standard concepts while schemas offer stable application contracts—and a normalization layer must connect raw terms to both using evidence, context, versioning, and review status, because similarity scores only produce candidates, not confirmed facts.