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Daniela Barbosa Business Development Manager, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones & Company |
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Daniela Barbosa works with large corporations in deploying information strategies through various parts of the enterprise, including helping them develop and manage their corporate vocabularies. Connecting business information with vocabulary management solutions, Ms. Barbosa is responsible for delivering end-to-end solutions that help organizations add structure and value to existing information assets and connects users to the information they need, when and where they need it.
Prior to this role, Ms. Barbosa was a solutions architect for Dow Jones Client Solutions and Factiva Consulting Services, before Factiva was acquired by Dow Jones in December 2006. In this role she was responsible for the definition and design of customer solutions that incorporated content from Dow Jones Factiva to enable customers to deliver business intelligence and actionable insight. She has worked with various Fortune 500 clients in the high-tech, consumer products, consulting, telecommunications, pharmaceutical and financial industries, as well as with many B2C customers in the ecommerce and digital media space.
An avid social media fan and contributor, Ms. Barbosa has participated in various speaking engagements and written on the topic of information delivery in the enterprise. She continually uses social media tools and processes to engage with customers and prospects, and she often shares the results of some of her research work. Most recently, she spearheaded a Folksonomies & Taxonomies round table event in Silicon Valley, California and published an ebook on hybrid approaches to folksonomies and taxonomies in the enterprise. Some of her thoughts on various topics around information delivery can be found on her blog
Unstruc...chichatting about information delivery.
Ms. Barbosa earned her Master's degree in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the School of Information and Library Science at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Chuck Beretz Senior IT Specialist, Content Discovery, IBM |
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Chuck Beretz is a technical architect for search, text analytics, and text classification solutions at IBM. Leveraging more than a decade of experience in helping companies address their needs for managing, categorizing and searching unstructured information, he also teaches IBM classification technology to audiences in the United States and abroad.
Joseph A. Busch is the knowledge leader for taxonomy and metadata and Senior Principal for Information Management at Project Performance Corporation (PPC). Founder and a principal of Taxonomy Strategies. He works with large companies, government agencies, and international organizations in developing metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies. Before this, he was the founder and a principal of Taxonomy Strategies and held senior positions at Interwoven, Metacode Technologies, the Getty Information Institute, and Pricewaterhouse. Mr. Busch is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and a former member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Board of Directors.
Bert Carelli Director, Business Development, Infovell, Inc. |
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Veteran of the online information industry, with extensive experience and a broad network of contacts among the owners and distributors of online content. Previously led content acquisition teams for two of the three largest global professional information services - Dow Jones/Factiva and Dialog. Focused on creating value for content providers through partnerships with companies developing new technologies for finding, managing, and productizing information.
Currently Director of Business Development for Infovell, Inc.
http://www.infovell.com/ a start-up company which has developed a new type of search technology: a Research Engine for the Deep Web. Infovell helps researchers uncover the answers to their questions without relying on ambiguous keywords or complex Boolean queries, enabling them to identify complex and sometimes hidden concepts deep within articles. With an initial focus on Life Science content, Bert is developing partnerships with scholarly publishers to increase the "findability" of their valuable content.
Gary Carlson Principal, Gary Carlson Consulting |
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Gary Carlson brings over 20 years of experience as a taxonomist, consultant, product manager, and information strategist working for small to Fortune 100 companies. The past twelve years have been spent leading information and knowledge management projects and products spanning Taxonomy Tools, Search, SharePoint 2010, Auto-categorization, Expert systems, Content Management, and Governance. Gary is currently focussed on helping companies develop their information infrastructure to meet enterprise goals. He is currently involved in customer facing e-commerce, social media and semantic web technologies.
Gretta A Chahine Corporate Taxonomist and Enterprise Portal & Search Leader, Global Information Services, Caterpillar |
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Gretta Chahine has been directly involved in the development, implementation and maintenance of the corporate taxonomy. For the past 7 years, Gretta has been the corporate taxonomist and the Enterprise Portal & Search leader where she created and developed Caterpillar Taxonomy and formed a community of practices addressing taxonomy and content management issues as they relate to search and fundability challenges. She created and set up Caterpillar's web standards where the goal of that project was to deliver a common "Top Navigation"/Taxonomy Standard for Caterpillar Intranet.
Christine JM. Connors Principal, TriviumRLG LLC |
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Ms. Connors has extensive experience in taxonomy, ontology and metadata design and development. Prior to forming TriviumRLG Ms. Connors was the global director, semantic technology solutions for Dow Jones, responsible for partnering with business champions across Dow Jones to improve digital asset management and delivery. Ms. Connors also served as business champion for the Synaptica® software application and supported Dow Jones consulting practices worldwide. Prior to joining Dow Jones Ms. Connors was knowledge architect at Intuit, and metadata architect at Raytheon Company. Ms. Connors holds a master of science degree in Library and Information Sciences from Simmons College, Boston, MA.
Ron Daniel Jr. Disruptive Technologies Director, Elsevier |
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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) (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 State University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Patrick Defibaugh-Chavez System Analyst, Access Innovations, Inc. |
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Patrick Defibaugh-Chavez is a system analyst for Access Innovations and develops everything from document converters to entity extractors. Ongoing research includes information extraction, knowledge representation, malware analysis, and automated vulnerability detection. He holds a Master's in Computer Science with a focus on information technology.
Charlie Gray Sr. Consulting Manager, Web Platform Services & CMS Strategy, Motorola, Inc. |
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Today Charlie Gray manages all of Motorola's public web sties that includes 63 counties and 34 languages. Included as part of these activities is the ongoing day to day Web publishing process and management, Content Management Strategy and Implementation, Domain Strategy & Registration process, along with Taxonomy Governance and Integration.
Heather Hedden Senior Analyst, Project Performance Corporation |
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Heather Hedden is a senior analyst providing taxonomy consulting with Project Performance Corporation and is author of The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today Inc., 2010). She has developed taxonomies for SharePoint document management at First Wind, for search integration at the software developer Viziant, and for periodical indexing at Gale. She has also worked as a taxonomy consultant and indexer for her own business, Hedden Information Management. Heather teaches online workshops in taxonomy creation through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Lisa Kamm User Experience Manager, Google |
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Lisa Kamm joined Google as the New York based User Experience Manager in 2008. Before joining Google, she served as Director, AmexWeb at American Express, and spent 7 years at IBM where she founded the first ibm.com Information Architecture department, managed the ibm.com User Experience team, and lead a successful sitewide redesign, before leading the IBM Corporate Intranet Information Management team. She has worked in new media since 1995, at organizations including JPMorgan Chase, Agency.com, the ACLU, and iGuide, leading user experience teams, delivering information architectures, and serving as a user advocate. She has a JD from NYU and an MSLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Stephanie Lemieux Taxonomy Practice Lead, Earley & Associates |
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Stephanie is the Taxonomy Practice Lead at Earley & Associates, where she has helped clients implement taxonomy and content management across a variety of technologies. Recent projects include the creation of faceted search taxonomies for large e-commerce websites and digital asset management taxonomy to facilitate marketing resource management and reuse. Stephanie has a Masters in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) from McGill University, specializing in knowledge and content management, taxonomy, and information architecture.
Paula R McCoy Manager, Taxonomy Development, ProQuest |
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Paula McCoy is the manager of Taxonomy Development at ProQuest, a global leader in the provision of specialized information resources and technologies to libraries of all types. She manages the ProQuest Controlled Vocabulary® and specialized authority files used to index databases in fields ranging from business and management to science, technology, and medicine. She has been at ProQuest for 26 years, managing the company's flagship product, ABI/INFORM, and the Accounting & Tax Database. She has several years' experience leading the company's autocategorization effort.
Donald Miller Director, Sales & Business Development, North America, Interse |
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Don Miller has been involved with leading edge software technologies for over 15 years in Knowledge Management, Content Management and Business Intelligence. He has provided successful business solutions across multiple verticals and industries including industry leaders: Universal Studios, The Gap, ADP Retirement Services, Irwin Tools, Continental Airlines, Countrywide and the National Football League.
Marcia Morante President, KCurve, Inc. |
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Marcia Morante is the founder and President of KCurve, Inc. (
http://www.kcurve.com), a services company focused on content organization and usability. She works with many types of organizations to help them create, search, find, organize, navigate and present content, as well as select and utilize tools and technologies to support these tasks.
Prior to founding KCurve in 2002, Ms. Morante served as Director of Professional Services at Sageware, where she built a core practice around taxonomy development. She has also held technical and managerial positions at several categorization and search engine companies.
Peter Morville is a
writer,
speaker, and
consultant. He is best known for helping to create the discipline of information architecture. His bestselling books include
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and
Ambient Findability. Peter’s latest book,
Search Patterns, was published by O’Reilly Media in January 2010. He advises such clients as AT&T, Harvard, IBM, the Library of Congress, Microsoft, the National Cancer Institute, Vodafone, and the Weather Channel. His work on experience design and the future of search has been covered by Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter lives in
Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife, two daughters, and a dog named Knowsy. He blogs at
findability.org.
Andy Northrop Vice President, Professional Services, Autonomy |
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Marydee Ojala Editor, ONLINE Magazine |
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Marydee Ojala edits
ONLINE: Exploring Technology & Resources for Information Professionals and writes its business research column ("The Dollar Sign"). She contributes feature articles and news stories to
Information Today,
Searcher,
EContent,
Computers in Libraries,
Intranets,
Cyber Skeptic's Guide to the Internet,
Business Information Review, and Information Today's NewsBreaks. Her blog is ONLINEInsider.net. A long-time observer of the information industry, she speaks frequently at conferences, such as WebSearch University, Internet Librarian, Online Information (London, UK), Internet Librarian International, and national library meetings outside the U.S. She has adjunct faculty status at the School of Library and Information Science at IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis). Her professional career began at BankAmerica Corporation, San Francisco, directing a worldwide program of research and information services. She established her independent information research business in 1987. Her undergraduate degree is from Brown University and her MLS was earned at the University of Pittsburgh.
Leslie Owens Senior Analyst, Forrester Research |
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Leslie Owens is a senior analyst at Forrester Research, where she serves Content & Collaboration professionals. She is a leading expert on enterprise search, semantic tools, information classification, and taxonomies. Leslie holds a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a focus on cataloging and classification.
Sonya Pelli Internet Services Manager, City of St. Louis Information Technology Services Agency |
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Sonya Pelli is manager of internet services for the City of St. Louis, Missouri. She plans and manages web-based Information Services (IS) projects of varying size, scope and complexity for City Departments and Elected Officials. Over the past 15 years she has utilized a unique set of technical, managerial, and community development skills in the development of digital communities. Sonya holds a master degree from Washington University, St. Louis and an undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
Wendi Pohs Chief Technology Officer, InfoClear Consulting |
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Wendi Pohs is CTO at InfoClear Consulting, a company that specializes in taxonomy management and toolkit integration. Her clients include a major news media company, a major computer vendor, several corporate health care clients, and leading consumer Web sites. Previously, she was a consulting IT specialist on IBM's intranet user experience team. Wendi is the author of a book about knowledge management methodologies, Practical Knowledge Management: The Lotus Knowledge Discovery System, published by IBM Press. Wendi's past experience includes search and taxonomy work at the American Mathematical Society and at Lotus Development Corporation. She received her BA and MILS degrees from the University of Michigan.
Dan Ranta Director, Knowledge Sharing, ConocoPhillips |
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Dan Ranta is the Director of Knowledge Sharing for ConocoPhillips, and is accountable for the strategic implementation of knowledge sharing for the company. Key activities include cultural change though rewards and recognition, developing and maturing global knowledge networks, creating deep business integration with knowledge sharing systems, and improving the technology and processes that enable knowledge sharing. Mr Ranta manages an operation that has produced more than $3 Billion in savings for ConocoPhillips through sharing knowledge from 2004-07.
Tom Reamy Chief Knowledge Architect, KAPS Group |
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Tom Reamy is currently the Chief Knowledge Architect and founder of KAPS Group, a group of knowledge architecture, taxonomy, and eLearning consultants.
Tom has 20 years of experience in information architecture, intranet management and consulting, and education and training software.
Tom’s academic background includes a Master’s in the History of Ideas, research in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and a strong background in philosophy, particularly epistemology. He has published articles in various journals and is a frequent speaker at knowledge management conferences.
When not writing or developing KM projects, he can usually be found at the bottom of the ocean in Carmel taking photos of strange creatures.
Theresa Regli Principal, Real Story Group |
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Theresa Regli is principal at CMS Watch, a vendor-independent and buyer-focused content technology analyst firm. She covers enterprise search, semantic technologies, digital asset management, and related technologies and practices. She is contributing analyst and editor of “The 2008 Enterprise Search Report,” which evaluates and compares 18 enterprise search vendors head-to-head, and co-author of “The Digital Asset Management Report.” Regli holds degrees and certifications in romance languages and linguistics from universities in France, the U.S. and the U.K. and frequently delivers presentations and keynotes at events around the world.
Jay Ven Eman CEO, Access Innovations, Inc. |
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Jay Ven Eman has been with Access Innovations since late 1978. He has been active in all aspects of its business. He has overseen Access' database production services where he was responsible for the design and conversion of large, legacy databases for a variety of government and commercial organizations. He writes, gives workshops, consults, and helps build large-scale, complex, information rich databases. He has presented papers and workshops at ASIS&T, SLA, ASIDIC, InternetWorld, Online - London, AGSI - Netherlands, and many others. Before joining Access, he worked for the University of New Mexico at the Technology Applications Center, operated under a contract from NASA. He specialized in technology transfer and information dissemination of space technology to the commercial arena. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Jim Wessely President, Advanced Document Sciences |
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Mr. Wessely is president and co-founder of Advanced Document Sciences, a consulting firm focused upon enterprise information organization and access. He has worked with document technologies since 1985, and spent many years researching and designing application solutions using text analysis, text mining, and unstructured information technologies. This background led Mr. Wessely to taxonomy design and implementation through content analysis. Mr. Wessely previously worked for IBM Global Services, where he helped clients to develop strategies and solutions for enterprise portals, content management, taxonomies, text analysis, and text mining. Prior to his work with IBM, Mr. Wessely was the principal architect for numerous advanced computational solutions in DuPont's Central Research & Development, where his primary focus was upon unstructured information technologies and global scale information portals.
Mr. Wessely has been a frequent presenter at conferences in both the United States and Europe on diverse topics such as portal design and architectures, enterprise content strategies, taxonomy, advanced information access, and personalized information delivery.