Madi Weland Solomon

Experience

With an understanding of the cultural landscapes in business organizations, Madi advises on IT strategy and data interoperability initiatives with a holistic view of the enterprise. She is a TOGAF-9 certified Enterprise Architect, an IAPP Privacy Professional (CIPP, CIPP/US), a qualified PROSCI Change Manager, member of the European Linked Content Coalition, former Advisory Board of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and the Information Industry Network Europe.

At the largest education and publishing company in the world, she held corporate executive positions where she introduced disruptive technologies that supported the transition from print to digital.

  • Developed the Curriculum Management tool: a linked data platform
  • Deployed the Enterprise Vocabulary Management platform: an enterprise tool
  • Collaborated and created the Learning Objectives Management Ontology
  • Created the Linked Data and Content Services Program: an enterprise program
  • Built a consortium of content managers for The Standards Committee
  • Facilitated and delivered 6 global metadata standards
  • Developed and delivered The Asset Enrichment Pipeline: an automated metadata enrichment tool
  • Collaborated and delivered the Content Lifecycle Policy and Data Design Authority

With a multi-media conglomerate, she helped build an enterprise media management solution in what was a newly created corporate executive position with New Technology & New Media

  • Developed and delivered the media taxonomy in a Service Oriented Architecture solution
  • Created and Chaired the Nomenclature Forum
  • Collaborated and developed the Moving Image Metadata
  • Influenced media industry standards: Moving Image Metadata model

At and international cultural and research institution, she was Project Associate in Standards & Vocabularies during its inaugural year.

  • Managed an exhibition of computers at the opening of the museum. Managed staff and 350 volunteers
  • Advocated and supported shared vocabularies in the international cultural heritage and visual arts museum sectors.

With a private contemporary art foundation, she was Curatorial Assistant to three large collections owned by Eli and Edythe Broad who are among the top five top art collectors in the world.

  • Provided curatorial support
  • Managed facility operations, slide archive, and collections management
  • Developed the first non-profit art organization website