Semantic Data New York 2025

Jessica Talisman has dedicated her 25-year career to exploring the dynamics of information and knowledge, and how information flows across systems. Her experiences range from historical contexts to educational frameworks and extends to the realms of artificial intelligence and its application within enterprise knowledge systems. She is an active contributor in codifying knowledge management techniques, founded in the discipline of library science and steeped in semantics. As a librarian, she evangelizes the importance of high-quality data as a prerequisite to rendering truthful and reliable AI systems. Currently, she is a Senior Information Architect at Adobe, building semantic knowledge graphs for content and context setting. She believes in the importance of bridging the gaps between library science and data management, to enable robust knowledge management systems that can support innovations in AI.

Jessica graduated with a BA in history from Smith College.  She holds a Masters in Teaching (MAT) from Lewis and Clark College and earned her Masters in Information and Library Science  (MLS) from Emporia State University with a concentration in Informatics. She also has a MicroMasters in Design Thinking from Rochester Institute of Technology. Jessica lives in Santa Cruz, California with her partner, Dave, and two dogs.