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2008 SSP 30th Annual Meeting, Westin Copley, Boston, MA

Concurrent 1D: Tag! Are You It? Taxonomies & Folksonomies in Practice

Speakers

Stephen Rhind-Tutt
Stephen Rhind-Tutt is President of Alexander Street Press, an electronic publishing company in the humanities and social sciences. He has 18 years of experience in electronic publishing with a number of different companies. At SilverPlatter from 1989 to 1995, he held a variety of roles and was responsible for the development, sales, and management of more than 200 electronic products.

Until its sale to Proquest, Stephen was President of Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. where he developed and distributed more than 150 electronic products, including the world’s largest collection of primary texts in English and American Literature. Since 2000, Stephen has been President of Alexander Street Press based in Alexandria, Virginia.

He has spoken at a number of conferences including The Charleston Conference, AAUP, SSP, The Association for Documentary Editors, and more. Stephen has a B.A. from University College London and an M.B.A. from Boston University.

Robert Wolfe
Robert Wolfe is a professional librarian and information architect who has worked in the field of educational technology since 1999. He received his MLIS from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 2001.

He is currently the Head of the Metadata Services Unit at the MIT Libraries. Metadata Services is a cost recovery consultancy that offers information organization services to the education community.

These services are: information architecture including data modeling, taxonomy development, and user experience design; metadata systems design including metadata storage, serialization, and production workflow solutions; and project management including metadata production training, production management, and quality assessment.

Seth Maislin
Seth Maislin is an index and taxonomy consultant, managing partner of the indexing firm Potomac indexing, and taxonomist for Earley & Associates.

An adjunct instructor at several Boston institutions, Seth is known for his
wide-reaching and practical knowledge of how information is organized, managed, and retrieved (including search), as well as his charismatic teaching.

He served on the national board of the American Society for Indexing (ASI), including as president in 2006-7, and his online course on indexing books and websites is one of only two in the country. Visit
http://taxonomist.tripod.com and http://www.potomacindexing.com for more information.