Taxonomy & Metadata Analyst
Donna Slawsky is a taxonomy and metadata consultant who has worked with corporate clients including WeightWatchers.com and United Media (where she constructed a taxonomy and metadata schema for Charles Shulz' Peanuts character art for their digital asset management system). Ms. Slawsky speaks frequently at industry conferences and has published numerous articles.
She currently consults for Time Inc. as ontologist for large publication web sites including InStyle, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Cooking Light, and Southern Living. Past positions include director of the information center/archives at HarperCollins Publishers, manager of photos and illustrations for Scholastic Online Digital Archive and director of content for an internet start-up.
Ms. Slawsky has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute, teaches the Digital Asset Management Course for Columbia University's Masters in Information and Digital Resource Management and until recently was on the adjunct faculty of the library at Baruch College of the City University of New York.