Palantir Foundry Ontology: Data Flow With Aip & Workshop
Last updated 1/2026
Created by Emma Saunders
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 23 Lectures ( 1h 36m ) | Size: 2 GB
✓ Understand what an Ontology is
✓ Build and navigate a Foundry Object Type confidently, using real datasets rather than abstract theory
✓ Use Ontology enrichment to improve AIP agent behaviour in Workshop, and understand its limits
✓ Use the Ontology to power Workshop applications and object sets in practical, end-to-end examples
✓ Design Ontology objects, properties, value types, and relationships that work in real Foundry applications.
✓ Summarise the benefit of the Foundry Ontology within Foundry as a whole, and understand its limitations, including with Foundry apps outside of Workshop.
Requirements
● You will need access to a Foundry environment to apply the examples. It would be a help if you have taken my Pipelines course previously, and, to a lesser extent, the course on Workshop. These Foundry applications are used but not taught in this course.
Description
Unlike Foundry Workshop and Pipeline Builder, the Ontology exists to serve other applications within Foundry. Its purpose is to add a layer of semantic meaning onto the golden data of your organisation, to centralise and link your data. As such, it is best taught in an applied way, rather than a theoretical one. So although we start the course explaining what an ontology is, we quickly move on to Foundry's implementation.
Most of the course works through specific examples of how the Ontology flows into other applications. Section 3 focuses on the hot topic of AIP. What relationship does the Ontology have with an AIP Agent widget in Workshop? Does a robust Ontology full of rich descriptions and coherent semantics result in a well balanced and robust AIP Agent? Which changes can we make in the Ontology that help, and is the Ontology the best way to enhance our AIP efforts? If not, what is?
Section 4 focuses on Workshop in relation to the Ontology. Workshop is an app building application within Foundry, which lets you build custom applications. It is Ontology-aware - indeed, it is Ontology-dependent. We see how the Ontology provides data to Workshop; we look at which widgets are best suited to displaying the Ontology; we see how to traverse the Ontology within Workshop so we can filter one Object Set by another without needing to import all of them; and we see how to edit Object Views, which are curated views of Object Types pulled in as workshop widgets, which are owned by the Ontology. They are a way for data owners to tell downstream users what is important about particular data.
Armed with all this micro knowledge of where the Ontology information flows, we zoom out and look at our data and Ontology from a macro, organisation-level perspective. We see where property descriptions flow, and how the Ontology acts as a buffer between fragile pipelines and applications that need stability. We see how the Ontology tries to prevent silent failures, and why a loud failure is preferable. We see the benefits of a single view of our data, and learn how global interfaces can start to unlock views of the data across Object Types, which have been almost impossible before.
Who this course is for
■ Beginner Foundry users, who have access to this enterprise system and want to know what the Ontology adds and how to use it for maximum effect. Anyone who is trying to get an AIP Agent widget working, and wants to know what the Ontology can add.
Palantir Foundry Ontology: Data Flow With Aip & Workshop
