MJ designs and builds digital technologies that enable social information commons. He is systems librarian and software developer with Artefactual Systems Inc. MJ has worked with a number of information organizations and initiatives, including the Public Knowledge Project, Synergies Canada, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, and Toronto Public Library. MJ is actively involved in the academic cataloguing, digital library, metadata standards and semantic web communities. He has served on the editorial team of several scholarly journals, including Code4Lib Journal, Open Medicine, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. He has also written a variety of articles and delivered a number of presentations and workshops on the topics of structured metadata management, open access publishing, and collaborative open source development practices. He holds a B.Eng from Queen's University and an MIS from the University of Toronto.

Why I do what I do:

Information wants to be free. I am a freedom fighter.