David Clarke

London, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Creator of solutions that help people organize information and discover knowledge

Technology / Software / Internet

Founder and head of research and development at Synaptica, a software company that helps government agencies, academia and private corporations to organize information and promote the discovery of latent knowledge. Synaptica is an innovation leader in the taxonomy and ontology software space with customers and business operations in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Contributing author of the 2005 version of US national standard ANSI/NISO Z39.19, which provides guidelines for the creation of controlled vocabularies. Creator of the Taxonomy Warehouse online directory of controlled vocabularies. Also affiliated with a number of arts and science organizations in the US and UK.