The Art of Taxonomy

Marlene first worked with taxonomies when completing MLS at Simmons College, and then had a chance to develop a faceted taxonomy-based content management system at Digital Equipment Corporation. She gave a presentation on "Facet Analysis and Corporate Information Retrieval' at the 1st International Conference on Knowledge Organization in Darmstadt, Germany twenty years ago. She has worked at Harvard Business School Publishing, worked as a contributing writer with online curriculum development, and continues to monitor developments in taxonomy and metadata. Marlene has a blog, theTaxonomyblog.wordpress.com, where she, along with other taxonomists, contributes articles about their insights and practices. Joseph A. Busch is the founder of Taxonomy Strategies and one of the principal consultants. He guides companies with global reach, government agencies, international organizations, and not-for-profits such as Oracle, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the International Monetary Fund, and Harvard Business School Publications in developing metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies. Before founding Taxonomy Strategies, Joseph Busch held strategic positions within Interwoven, Metacode Technologies, the Getty Information Institute, and PriceWaterhouse. He is a Past President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (http://www.asis.org), and an appointee to the Board of Directors of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (http://dublincore.org). Ron Daniel, Jr. is a Principal at Taxonomy Strategies. Before becoming a partner at Taxonomy Strategies, Dr. Daniel held technical positions at Interwoven, Metacode and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is an expert on XML and metadata industry standards. He has served as chair, editor, or member in numerous working groups including the PRISM (Publishers Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) working group (prismstandard.org), XML Linking, RDF (Resource Description Framework), and Dublin Core (dublincore.org). He co-edited three RFCs for the Internet Engineering Task Force. Ron earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Michael Lauruhn is a librarian who has worked at Internet companies since receiving his Masters of Library Science in 2000. As part of a new generation of information professionals, he has worked to apply library, information and compuscience to the new challenges of distributed heterogeneous content and the World Wide Web. He has worked on many projects to integrate metadata into the content management workflow. Before becoming a Member of Taxonomy Strategies, Mr. Lauruhn held technical positions at CMP Media, Interwoven and Looksmart.com.