As a first step toward defining an industry-accepted ontology, the BioPhorum Technology Strategy Big Data to Smart Data workstream has reviewed best practices for ontology development across industries, adapted them to the biomanufacturing
space and then carried out an initial proof-of-concept (PoC) implementation of ontology-enabled analysis. The results demonstrate how implementing better data management as part of a digital transformation can create compounding value over time.
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