About Us

Joseph Busch is Taxonomy Strategies’ founder and principal consultant. Mr. Busch is an authority in the field of information science, with an emphasis on helping organizations develop metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies to ensure that content realizes its highest value through reuse and repurposing.

He has extensive knowledge and experience developing content architectures consisting of metadata frameworks, taxonomies and other information management methods to implement effective information management applications such as search engines, portals, web sites, content management systems, digital asset management systems, document management systems, knowledge management systems, e-learning and e-government.

His clients have included the American Bar Association, American Medical Association, American Physical Society, APM Music, Best Buy, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CDW, Dell, Deloitte, Etsy, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs, Home Depot, Honeywell, Kraft Foods, Macy’s, Medline Industries, MTV, Nike, Nikon Precision, Repair Clinic, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Save the Children, Target, Teck Resources, and Trusted Media Brands.

Before founding Taxonomy Strategies, Joseph Busch held management positions at Interwoven, Metacode Technologies, the Getty Trust, PriceWaterhouse, Hampshire College and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. Mr. Busch was President of the Association for Information Science and Technology (www.asist.org) in 2001 and has been a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (dublincore.org) executive committee.