- Discovery first: Ana read the schema and the documents, then drafted the model
- Governed metrics: conflicting definitions reconciled into one source of truth, with decisions recorded
- Accuracy checked: golden-query tests pin known-correct values
- Cheap to evolve: the N+1 document and the schema rename were targeted edits, not rebuilds
- Many teams, one model: role-based personas with auditable scope
Where to go from here
- Run it on your own data this week. Repeat Track A on one real source, or Track B on one real document pile. Keep the baseline habit.
- Operating it in production — git workflows, access control at scale, accuracy testing, the improvement loop — is the companion Ontology Operations workshop.
- In healthcare? The Healthcare Starter Pack workshop starts you from a pre-built ontology — entity spine, terminology, governed metrics — instead of a blank page.
- For your business users: once the ontology is live, the Self-Service Analytics workshop teaches them to use what you built.