Ken Sochats is an internationally recognized researcher in the areas of electronic recordkeeping and metadata. His papers on electronic recordkeeping and metadata have been translated into fourteen languages and are in use in over forty-two nations.
The government of Australia cites Metadata Requirements for Evidence by Bearman and Sochats as a significant source for their Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies. See www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/control/rkms/rkms_pt1_2.pdf.
His papers have been listed as recommended background reading for both International Standards Organization (ISO) meetings hosted by Mitre Corporation for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). See http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/us/overview.html and http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/us02/ws.html.
His papers are widely used as readings for courses on electronic records at universities ranging from the prestigious Max Planck Institute in Berlin (www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/lisa3/ruschfejad.html), to the University of Michigan (http://china.si.umich.edu/spp/courses/744/misc.hyper/0091.html), to the University of California at Los Angeles (http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/us-interpares/bib_meta.htm), Indiana University (www.slis.indiana.edu/syllabi/bantin/L597_spr01_ercoursesyll3.htm), to Monash University in Australia (www.monash.edu.au).
Ken has served as a consultant on electronic recordkeeping to numerous corporate and government organizations including the State Archives and Records Administration (SARA) of New York, the Department of Defense, The National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators (NAGARA) and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Other references to his work can be found at:
Research Libraries Group (RLG) http://www.rlg.ac.uk
The UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN) http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
On-Line College Library Center (OCLC) www.oclc.org
Dublin Core http://dublincore.org/workshops/dc1/resources.shtml
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) www.ifla.org
The Library of Congress www.loc.gov
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) www.cni.org