Phix's Curiosity

For more than two decades, my professional work has focused on taxonomy, metadata, enterprise search, information architecture, and knowledge management by designing systems that help people organize, discover, and apply knowledge in an increasingly complex world.

Alongside that work, I have maintained a lifelong fascination with libraries, learning, mythology, folklore, storytelling, history, and the ways cultures preserve and transmit wisdom across generations.

This site is where those worlds meet. I explore knowledge as both infrastructure and inheritance: libraries (traditional and non-traditional) as humanity's external memory, folklore as an information systems, metadata as a language of connection, and the ethical questions that arise when we organize, retrieve, and interpret human knowledge. I am especially interested in the liminal spaces where information science intersects with the humanities, and where technical systems meet the stories that shape our understanding of ourselves.

Knowledge stewardship and ‘ontology of becoming’ describes the thread that runs from the child who found sanctuary in libraries, to the information management professional building knowledge organization and retrieval systems, to the writer exploring mythology, folklore, and cultural memory.