RÉSUMÉ
Joseph Busch
42 Bonview St.
San Francisco, CA 94110-5105
+1 (415) 377 7912
jbusch@taxonomystrategies.com
EXPERIENCE
Taxonomy Strategies. San Francisco, CA, 2002-Present
Founder and Principal
Guiding global 2000 companies, government agencies, and NGOs to
develop metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies to ensure that
content realizes its highest value through re-use and re-purposing.
Interwoven, Inc. (acquired Metacode in Nov. 2000),
Sunnyvale, CA, 2000-2002
Director, Solutions Architecture
Technology consultant and content management evangelist providing
depth and breadth enterprise-level expertise, to create sales opportunities
and remove obstacles to closing sales. Responsible for new automated
categorization product positioning, introduction and sales volumes
that met aggressive goals.
Metacode Technologies, Inc. (formerly Datafusion),
San Francisco, CA, 1998-2000
Vice President, Infoware (Information Product Development)
Developed business strategy and market positioning. Was chief architect
for new media automated content management products and knowledge
management services.
The Getty Information Institute (formerly the
Art History Information Program), Santa Monica, CA, 1987-98
Program Manager, Standards and Research Databases, 1993-98
Managed $3 million program that supported portfolio of projects
and 50 employees building digital repositories. Provided oversight
of production and distribution of research publications.
Promoted the social value of cultural information and its importance
in the development of national and global information infrastructures.
Systems Project Manager, 1987-93
Planned, developed, implemented, supported, and maintained information
management systems used at project sites in North America and Europe.
Price Waterhouse, Boston, MA, 1984-87
Manager, Management Consulting Services, 1986-87
Senior Consultant, 1984-86.
Management consultant to professional services, financial, commercial,
and government clients.
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 1979-84
Assistant Director, Technical Services
Assisted in coordination of systems procurement and data conversion
projects for the Five Colleges – Hampshire, Amherst, Mt. Holyoke,
and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison,
New York, NY, 1977-79
Chief, Technical Services
Designed and implemented various text retrieval systems in a New
York City law firm, and assisted in firm-wide information management
planning.
EDUCATION
- M.L.S., State University of New York at Albany, Beta Phi Mu,
1977.
- B.A., Portland State University, 1974. Reed College, 1972-74.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Active member of many national and regional professional organizations.
- Association for Computing Machinery, Program Committees, 1997, 98.
- American Society for Information Science and Technology, Watson Davis Award, 2004; President, 2001; Director-at-large, 1993-96; Annual Meeting Chair, 1997.
- American Library Association, Committee on Accreditation Visiting Committees, 1996, 98, 99, 2001, 04.
- Council on Foundations, International Committee, Telecommunications Task Force, 1995-96.
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Board of Directors, 2001-
- Museum Computer Network, Director-at-large, 1993-96.
- National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Computing and the Humanities Roundtable, 1997.
- National Science Foundation, Review Panels, 1998; Workshop Participant, 1996, 98, 99.
PUBLICATIONS
J. Busch, K. Forsberg, M. Dekkers. Guidance Information for the Deployment of Dublin Core Metadata in Corporate Environments. ISSS/WS-MMI-DC/136. December 2004.
“Ask Tony: Investigating ECM Building Blocks“ CMSWatch (2004-12-07)
D.L. Smith, J. Busch, R. Daniel, Jr. “Taxonomy: A Knowledge Sharing
Enabler.“ Presented at: SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
held in Houston, Texas, U.S.A., 26–29 September 2004.
R. Haniph with J. Busch. “Migration Tools and Techniques“ CMSWatch (2004-04-14)
“Information Issues in the Aftermath of September 11.” 27:8 Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2001)
“Semantic Information Management: Harnessing the Flow.” 27:6 Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2001)
“The Internet Economy and Its Aftermath.” 27:5 Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2001)
“Who Are Information Architects and What Do They Want?” 27:4 Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2001)
“Helping People Find Content… Preparing Content to be Found: Enabling the Semantic Web.” In: National Online Proceedings, New York, May 15-17, 2001, edited by Martha E. Williams, Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2001.
“The Value of Context for Data and Information.”
Presented at: National Science Foundation Workshop on Digital Archives
and Information Preservation, Washington, D.C., March 26-28, 1999.
“Building and Accessing Vocabulary Resources for Networked Resource Discovery and Navigation.” In: Visualizing Subject Access for 21 st Century Information Resources,
edited by Pauline Atherton Cochrane and Eric H. Johnson, Champaign, IL:
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.
“The Importance of Documenting Cultural Objects.” no. 2 Bulletin of the Vocabulary Program (1998) 13-14, 16.
“Evolving Institutional Approaches to Subsidizing End User Access to Research Databases: A Case Study.” 11 Archives and Museum Informatics (1997) 39-46.
"Workshop on Metadata and Thesauri.” Presented at: Digital Libraries ’97, , Philadelphia , July 1997.
“Standards Challenges.” Presented at: National Research Council
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Computing and the
Humanities Roundtable Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 1997.
“Distribution Models for Research Databases.” Presented at: Coalition for Networked Information, San Francisco, December 1996.
“SGML for Interchanging Cultural Heritage Information.” In: Electronic Publishing: Applications and Implications, edited by Elizabeth L. Logan and Myke H. Gluck. Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, 1996.
“Discussion Paper on End User Searching and Filtering: Interface Design for Information Retrieval.” Presented at: National Science Foundation Workshop on Social Aspects of Digital Libraries, Los Angeles, February 1996.
“How to Choose Among Alternative Technologies for Physical Access to Art Images.” 4:2 Computers and the History of Art (1994) 3-16.
“Thinking Ambiguously: Organizing Source Materials for Historical Research.” In: Challenges in Indexing Electronic Text and Images, edited by Raya Fidel, Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Edie M. Rasmussen, and Philip J. Smith. Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, 1994.
“Automated Mapping of Topical Subject Headings into Facetted Index
Strings Using the Art & Architecture Thesaurus as a Machine
Readable Dictionary.” In: Knowledge Organization and Quality Management, edited by Hanne Albrechtsen and Susanne Oernager. Frankfurt: Indeks Verlag, 1994.
“Use of a Relational Database System to Model the Variability
of Historical Source Information.” In: Cognitive Paradigms in Knowledge Organisation, Bangalore: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 1992.
“Updating the Art & Architecture Thesaurus for Use in Object and Image Documentation.” In: Studies in Multimedia, edited by Susan Stone and Michael Buckland. Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, 1992.
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