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Deborah McGuiness

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Deborah McGuinness

Deborah McGuinness is a computer scientist whose work focuses on knowledge representation, ontologies, provenance, and explainable systems.

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Deborah McGuinness is associated with work that helps practitioners understand how knowledge is created, structured, shared, or acted upon in complex systems.

Their work contributes to the Knowledge Flow library because it offers concepts, practices, or research traditions that make invisible thinking more visible.

Across the library, this person helps connect individual cognition, social coordination, technical design, and institutional behavior to the larger question of how understanding moves through systems.

Relevance to Knowledge Flow

McGuinness's work supports Knowledge Flow by connecting formal knowledge structures to explanation, trust, and reuse.

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Work by Deborah McGuinness

Book

Ontology Development 101

A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology

Ontologies make domain meaning explicit so people and systems can share concepts consistently. Ontology Development 101 introduces practical steps for defining classes, relationships, properties, and instances in a usable knowledge model.

Knowledge Flow

  • Knowledge Architecture
  • Knowledge Structures · contextualizes