Biographical Information

Marjorie M.K. Hlava

Marjorie Hlava (Margie) is President and Chairman of Access Innovations, Inc., an international database and information management services company she founded in 1978. Margie is responsible for directing overall corporate operations, especially production and marketing activities. These involve extensive public relations, contract negotiations, analyzing and transacting acquisitions and joint venture negotiations, hiring and training personnel, purchasing equipment, and participating in short-term and long-range planning.

Marjorie’s consultancy expertise includes project design, workflow analysis, project administration, database design, workflow analysis, software development and problem solving in all areas of corporate activity. A frequent speaker on database construction, Margie has been involved in creating more than 200 text files, many of them commercially available, and has contributed to more than 100 publications. Clients have included national and international corporations, small businesses, associations, government agencies, and departments.

Access Innovations, Inc. was actively involved in bringing Russian literature and related information services to the Western (especially American) market. In 1992, Access Russia was formed in Moscow to create and provide databases of Russian sci-tech information to users in the Western World. Soon the company moved to the United States. It initially operated from the Access Innovations headquarters, moved to California as a subsidiary, and just this year was sold to the principal staff of Access Russia.

Margie’s chosen area of research is natural language processing, especially in the area of machine- aided indexing (MAI). In order to produce indexing that is high quality and maintains consistency in any topic or subject area, Margie instituted a MAI system for use internally at Access and then for clients at their sites. In addition to and in combination with this specialized area , Margie has been working to implement larger scale intranet projects using Netscape architecture and XML, HTML, and .gif scaled files converted from SGML and .tif. The logical next step to this pursuit combined with the wider use of the MAI applications initiated the research and development of the new Access product - the Data Harmony software modules. Developed mainly as a response to client needs and production requirements, this suite of tools, recently released through Data Harmony, Inc., consists of an XML Intranet System (XIS), the Machine Aided Indexer (M.A.I.), and the Thesaurus Master (TM). Data Harmony runs on any Java-enabled server and is truly platform independent. It is a vigorous package which allows each module to be used separately. When used together, the Data Harmony suite of tools allows the production of textual records and the indexing to occur concurrently at each workstation.

Mrs. Hlava’s professional activities include local, regional, and national level support and participation in information industry related associations and organizations. She is currently or has recently served on the Board of Directors for the following: