Stephen Richard is an independent contractor working from Tucson Arizona. He is currently involved in projects to implement a Geoscience ontology for the Loop3D project, the Technical Team for the EarthCube Office, and applications of geoscience vocabularies in AI applications. Interests include tectonics, geochronology, interoperable network services for geoscience information, use of standardized metadata to streamline data discovery and evaluation. Interests include geologic mapping and knowledge representation, development of interchange formats for geoscience for information interchange (e.g. GeoSciML), implementation of ISO standards, schema.org and other metadata schemes for resource documentation, and development of geoscience vocabularies.