The OSS Community, AI, Ontologies, and Knowledge Graphs: This project, developed as part of Blog Report No. 7, examines how the open-source software (OSS) developer community uses technology to advance and share information. The presentation shows how open-source platforms can be combined with large-language models to clean, structure, and visualize complex datasets. ChatGPT-5.1 is used to generate a schema based on digital asset management terminology to show how ontology and knowledge graph software such as FreeMind, Sparna, and Protégé can support the fluid exploration of information. This preliminary work highlights how AI-assisted methods can contribute to the alignment of terms with web ontology language, metadata standards, and RDF. The presentation concludes with insights into how AI and open-source can make the interpretation of datasets more accessible. View the YouTube presentation.

Thomas Macaluso is a graduate student in the San José State University School of Information, pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science with a focus on digital services. He previously worked as a full-time public school music educator in the Los Angeles Unified School District and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He currently serves on the NMRT Résumé Review Committee through the American Library Association. His prior committee experience includes serving as a volunteer Arts Grant Fellowship evaluator for the City of Long Beach (2025), a school-site teacher representative on the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) accreditation committee (2023-2024), and a School Site Council member (2020-2022). His professional affiliations include ASIS&T and the ALA divisions NMRT, CORE, and ACRL.