Phil Murray

Summary

Phil Murray is Chief Knowledge Architect of The Semantic Advantage, a consultancy devoted to evaluation and implementation of enterprise semantic applications and writing services for the semantic space. Most recently, Mr. Murray served as Enterprise Knowledge Architect at Aelera Corporation, where he designed an A-to-Z, standards-based knowledge-management solution provided as a web-based software service. He drove the activities of the implementation team, which included staff and students of the SUNY Binghamton University Computer Science Department. Mr. Murray's web page on faceted classification has ranked #1 or #2 in Google searches for more that three years and is widely cited in discussions of faceted classification and navigation. Mr. Murray has also served as Editor-in-Chief of The Barrington Report on Advanced Knowledge Organization and Retrieval (BRAKOR), The Electronic Document Report, and KM Magazine/KM Metazine. His other activities in KM include * Co-founder of the Center for Semantic Excellence (www.semanticexcellence.org) * Principal author of the landmark market report, The Practice of Knowledge Management * Organizer of KREF (the Knowledge management Reference model EFffort), a Web-based collaborative effort to develop precise, shared descriptions of the key concepts and technologies of knowledge management * Organizer of the first "Knowledge Management Town Meeting" * Member, Board of Directors, The Boston Knowledge Management Forum Phil can be reached at phil.murray@semanticadvantage.com. Specialties: Analysis of semantic requirements for organizations Writing services, including white papers, articles, press releases, and documentation