Jon Phipps

Jon Phipps is a partner in Metadata Management Associates in Ithaca, NY and and the Lead Engineer and Principal Investigator of the Open Metadata Registry Project. He was most recently the Lead Scientist for Internet Strategies at JES & Co. "a non-profit organization dedicated to the 21st century education of youth". He was at one time the Technical Lead of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Core Integration group at Cornell University, and an Invited Expert on the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group where he was a co-editor of the SKOS Use Cases and Requirements document and a co-editor of the revised Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. He is a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Advisory Board and co-chair of the Registries Community, an Invited Expert on the W3C eGovernment Interest Group and the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Working Group.