Seth Maislin is a content consultant specializing in classification and indexing, information architecture, taxonomy and content modeling, search, and usability projects with more than 20 years experience in the information industry. He has dedicated the last 10+ years providing sustainable findability solutions to clients facing real and complex findability challenges.
Seth is a well-respected consultant and instructor in taxonomy, having provided services to companies in industries as diverse as retail & e-commerce, insurance, healthcare, publishing, and law. He has helped companies such as Motorola, Walmart, Consumer Reports, The Hartford Insurance Group, and American Funds develop content and governance frameworks for keeping internal and external web content environments both competitive and in the forefront of their business strategies. He is frequent host and contributor to the Taxonomy Communication of Practice webinars, and a regular presenter at industry and peer-attended conferences.
Seth is a past-president of the American Society for Indexing (ASI), during which he developed specializations in editorial keywordingand autoclassification; additionally he developed an online course on editorial tagging for print and Web, one of only two such instructor-led virtual courses in the United States. He is an adjunct educator at Simmons College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Bentley University’s Information Design and Corporate Communication program, and Middlesex Community College.
Seth’s previous positions include Senior Partner of the international indexing firm Potomac Indexing LLC, Integration Manager at Lycos.com, and Senior Indexer at O’Reilly Media. He has Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Optical Engineering.
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