Bruce Bargmeyer, Staff Computer Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is Group Leader of the Metadata, Semantics, and Ecoinformatics Group. He holds an MPA degree from Harvard University. He is Chair of a standards development committee--the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1), Subcommittee 32 - Data Management and Interchange (SC32)--and a member of the Advisory Committee for the W3C. He leads research, development and demonstration projects in the areas of metadata registries, semantics and ecoinformatics.