Michael Crandall is a Principal Research Scientist at the Information School of the University of Washington. He has served in the past, as a Senior Lecturer on the faculty of the school, as the Chair of the Master of Science in Information Management Program and Director of the iAffiilates Program.  He has also served on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Board of Trustees since its inception in 2001, managed the Knowledge Architecture Group in Microsoft Information Services, and worked on information management and information architecture at the Boeing Company.