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Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against

Keynote by Roger H. French on Semantic Data Management and MDS-Onto for Synchrotron Science at the #SeMatS2025 workshop #ISWC2025 presenting a vast amount of Materials Data Science-related research. Amongst others, the Materials Data Science Ontology (MDS-Onto), which builds upon PMDco, CCO, and B…