http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2008/daytwo.shtml Eight Habits of Successful Taxonomists - Gary Carlson Creating,managing, growing, governing, and operationalizing taxonomies make up just part of the job of an enterprise taxonomist. As former chief taxonomist of SchemaLogic, and as a taxonomy and information management consultant, Carlson has a wide variety of experiences with government organizations and Fortune 1000 firms including IBM, Pfizer, Chevron, Associated Press, Microsoft, and Boeing. Lessons from these engagements have shown him that managing the social, political, and technical aspects of a taxonomy initiative is essential. To enable the justification and use of taxonomies in the enterprise, Carlson shares the eight (or so) skills that come in very handy when working across technical and business teams in an enterprise on a project. Less