Winners of 2008 DAMA-I Awards

DAMA President John Schley presented the 2008 DAMA-I awards at the DAMA Members meeting on Monday evening.

Here were this year's winners:

Award	Candidate Name	Bio	Title
Academic	John Talburt, Ph.D. University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Began the MS and PhD in Information Quality programs, has worked for many years to promote the teaching of information and data quality in traditional MIS courses and programs	Professor, Information Science – University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Professional	David Marco	Founded EWSolutions in 1997, leading expert in meta data management, lecturer and author of 2 books on meta data management	President and Founder, EWSolutions, Inc.
Government	Suzanne Acar	Senior Information Architect and Co-chair, Federal Data Architecture Subcommittee (DAS) Office of the Secretary (OCIO) U.S. Department of the Interior	Senior Information Architect U.S. Department of the Interior
Community	N. Michael Scofield	A tireless and highly effective campaigner for improved data quality and data management practices, as an employee, consultant, author, and presenter. 20+ year member of Los Angeles chapter of DAMA – held most positions on the chapter board over the years	Manager, Data Asset Development – ESRI, Inc.