Carol currently works in Professional Services at SchemaLogic where she helps customers model their taxonomic and structural metadata in SchemaLogic tools.  In addition, she provides advisory services on taxonomy management and conducts training. Prior to joining SchemaLogic, Carol was an independent consultant specializing in metadata system research and design. In this context she developed XML metadata application profiles, taxonomies, and designed and executed a wide variety of research studies designed to inform metadata system design. She has also been on the faculties of both Indiana University and Syracuse University as an assistant professor of information science. She holds an MLS from Columbia University and a PhD in information Transfer from Syracuse University.