Cheif Scientist, of Access Innovations which creates and maintains the Data Harmony semantic software suite for taxonomy, thesaurus and authority file applications and auto indexing.

Margie Hlava is a highly respected expert in taxonomies, metadata, and data science, with a proven track record of innovation in databases and search. Her groundbreaking work has earned her numerous awards, includingASIS&T’s Award of Merit, the SLA John Cotton Dana; and SLA President’s Award, and recognition as an SLA Fellow. She has also been honored as an Albuquerque Business First Woman of Influence for Technology and received Miles Conrad lectureship for NFAIS. Margie is actively involved in standards development, having contributed to several key initiatives such as Dublin Core, Credit Z39.104, ThesaurusANSI/NISO Z39.19,  SSOS - Standard  Strucutured Vocabuaries ISO 25964. She was elected to the Hubbell Hall of Fame in 2019. Most  recent standards work is as the convenor and chair of the ISO TC46/ SC9/Working group 8 for the the revision of the  "ISO/CD 25964-1, Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies - Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval, management and use" which is now in the comment voting process. If you have questions about taxonomies, ontologies, or AI semantic guidance and implementation within search, web navigation or other projects - ask Margie