Guide
From Taxonomy to Governed Ontology
12 pages · 10 min read · Published September 2026
A field guide for teams that already have an enterprise taxonomy and now need it to carry governance and AI: six moves from taxonomy to governed ontology, where the data migration fits, four worked examples, and a 12-question readiness checklist.
What you’ll learn
- Why a taxonomy stands up in months and an ontology stalls: the first rung that software, not people, consumes
- Six moves from taxonomy to governed ontology, with what good looks like at each step
- How to run the semantic model inside a data migration instead of mapping to the target schema twice
- A 12-question readiness checklist across model, governance, connection, and AI, with scoring
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