Richard Stark

Director of Product Data

Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Richard Stark is the Director of Product Data for Barnes & Noble, Inc., a position he had held for the past nine years. He has been active in book industry standards since 1995. Since 1999 Mr. Stark has chaired the BISAC Metadata Committee, the group that governs bibliographic data standards for the U.S. book industry. He was a member of the ISO working group that revised the ISBN standard, and he currently serves on the ISO working group that is developing the International Standard Name Identifier.

Mr. Stark has been a bookseller for eighteen years. His experience includes positions in store management and purchasing at Barnes & Noble, Borders, and independent booksellers. Mr. Stark was educated in the Great Books Program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.