- Keynote: Simon Waldman, Guardian News & Media
Speaker Details
Madi Weland Solomon
Director, Content Standards, Global Content Management
Pearson plc
Madi Weland Solomon is Director of Content Standards for Pearson Plc, the international media company which owns brands such as The Financial Times, Penguin Books, and Pearson Education. She leads the development and management of Pearson metadata and content management standards to ensure the support of current and new product models. Prior to Pearson, she was the Corporate Taxonomist for The Walt Disney Company and a taxonomy and metadata consultant specializing in rich media. Her background is in the visual arts sector as the former Project Associate with the Getty Information Institute in Standards and Vocabularies and Curatorial Assistant with The Broad Art Foundation. She has developed and implemented corporate strategies relating to global interoperability for large organizations using a cultural approach to change management.
She is the Co-chair of the AMIA (Association for Moving Image Archivists) Digital Initiatives Metadata Sub-Committee, member of the LOC ‘s (Library of Congress) Moving Image Collections Cataloging and Metadata Working Group, and a contributor to the ISAN Best Practices for Audiovisual Works. She holds a BFA from Boston University
