Joe is active as a thought leader in various fields, currently serving
on the AHRQ Standards and Interoperability Framework team and the US-EU
Ontology & Database Community of Research team (established 2012 by White
House Office of Science & Technology Policy and the EU counterpart).
On behalf of the Nanoinformatics Society, he lead the Knowledge Engineering Initiative for Computable Context
Representation. Some of the outcomes are included in a chapter on knowledge engineering that he contributed to an informatics text published by Elsevier (prepublication draft below).
As a member of the Software & Business Methods
standing committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO.org),
he lead a project to develop a methodology for identifying innovation in
applications for business method patents. The methodology was accepted by
IPO, which includes the world’s largest technology companies, delivered to
members as a CLE program lead by Joe. The methodology was recommended by
the IPO board to the US Patent Office and core concepts have been integrated
into their process.
