ABOUT US

Taxonomy Strategies guides global 2000 companies, government agencies, and NGOs in developing metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies.

We provide a very high level of expertise to our clients. Our staff includes a former president of the American Society for Information Science, and a co-editor of the original Dublin Core metadata standard.

Joseph A. Busch
Founder and Principal

Joseph A. Busch is the founder of Taxonomy Strategies and one of the principal consultants. He guides global large companies, 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 (www.asis.org), and an appointee to the Board of Directors of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (dublincore.org).

+1 (415) 377-7912
jbusch@taxonomystrategies.com

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Ron Daniel, Jr.
Principal

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.

Dr. Daniel is an expert on XML and metadata industry standards. He has served as chair, editor, or member in numerous working groups including PRISM (Publishers Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) working group (prismstandard.org), XML Linking, RDF (Resource Description Framework), and the 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 StateUniversity, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

+1 (925) 368-8371
rdaniel@taxonomystrategies.com

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Michael Lauruhn
Member

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.

+1 (415) 378-2747
mlauruhn@taxonomystrategies.com

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[Last updated 2008-01-29]