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

Marjorie M. K. Hlava is Chief Scientist, Chairman, and Founder of Access Innovations, Inc. Among her professional activities she is past president of ASIS&T (1993), NFAIS, Documentation Abstracts, ASIDIC, Access Innovations, and others.  She is a recipient of the ASIS&T 1996 Watson Davis Award, ASIS&T 2014 Award of Merit, a Fellow and Presidents Award and John Cotton Dana Awards from Special Libraries Association. Within NISO she has given the Miles Conrad Lecture, Anne Marie Cunningham Award, and Distinguished member. In 2024 she was presented the Inaugural KM Community Award from Information Today. A frequent presenter at conferences, she has also published more than two hundred articles and five books on information science topics, including the Taxobook series. She also holds two patents with 21 claims granted. Her research areas include furthering the productivity of content creation and the governance layer for information access through automated indexing, thesaurus development, taxonomy creation, natural language processing, machine translations, machine-aided indexing, and lately more artificial intelligence implementations. A frequent speaker on her research plus standards. Active in the standards world she served on the NISO board for 7 years. She was a member of the standards development committee for many standards including the Indexing Z39.14 -Thesaurus / Controlled Vocabulary - Z39.19, Dublin Core - Z39.85, DOI Syntax- Z39.84, CrEdit – Contributor Role Taxonomy - Z39.104, SSOS - Z39.103, Contributed Metadata Guidelines, and more. She is currently the convenor for the ISO 25964-1 - Information and Documentation - Thesauri and Interoperability with other Vocabularies: Part 1 - Thesauri for Information Retrieval. 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, including ASIS&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. 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