Margie Hlava is Chief Scientist, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc. If you are curious about taxonomies and their implementation Margie is the one to talk with. She is currently convener of the ISO 25964 Information and documentation — Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies — Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval, management, and use. She contributed to the Z39.19 2005 Controlled Vocabulary and the Z39.85 Dublin Core standard development teams. She also created the taxonomy for the CrEdit standard, worked on the Z39.104 Standards Specific Ontology for Standards (SSOS), the DOI Syntax and DOI Contributed Metadata set, Open URL Standard Advisor, NISO Z39.88, and others. She served on the NISO board for five years and the NISO Content Board. She is past president several organizations, including NFAIS (2002-2003), American Society for Information Science and Technology – 1993 (ASIST), Documentation Abstracts 1990-1991, Hubbell Society Museum and Library (1994-1998). She has received many awards including the ASIST Award of Merit and Watson Davis Award, the NFAIS Miles Conrad and Ann Marie Cunningham Awards, the John Cotton Dana Award, Fellow in 2006, and Presidents Award in 1999 from the Special Libraries Association, where she also founded Taxonomy Division in 2009, and served on the Board of Directors of SLA (Twice), Hubbell Hall of Fame Award 2021, Woman of Influence in Technology, and has held numerous other positions in these and other organizations. She has given countless presentations domestically and internationally, including several keynote addresses. She has published more than two hundred articles and five books on information science topics and is a member of NKOS. Her research areas include furthering the productivity of content creation and the governance layer for metadata and information access through automated indexing, thesaurus development, taxonomy creation, natural language processing, machine translations, and machine aided indexing, and other knowledge organization systems (KOS) topics – all the building blocks that now go into the hot AI topics. She holds two patents with 21 claims addressing automation of information processing and tagging.