Ron Daniel, Jr. is a Principal at Taxonomy Strategies. Before becoming a partner at Taxonomy Strategies, Dr. Daniel held technical positions at Interwoven, Metacode and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Dr. Daniel is an expert on XML and metadata industry standards. He has served as chair, editor, or member in numerous working groups including PRISM (Publishers Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) (prismstandard.org), XML Linking, RDF (Resource Description Framework), and the Dublin Core (dublincore.org). He co-edited three RFCs for the Internet Engineering Task Force. Ron earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Los Alamos National Laboratory.