LibLynx is proud to announce that we are now an organizational member of NISO (National Information Standards Organization).
NISO’s work and the information standards it develops underpin the services that we provide. Identity and access rely on safely and securely authenticating and authorizing access to information, including managing the personal data that may be involved. Similarly, usage reporting is only credible, consistent, and comparable thanks to the COUNTER Metrics reporting standards.
You may be surprised to read this announcement, given the many years of volunteer work LibLynx staff have devoted to NISO committees, initiatives, and events. Our CEO, Tim Lloyd, is currently a member of the Trust Markers working group, serves on the Governance and Outreach committees of SeamlessAccess, and on the Education Committee of COUNTER Metrics. Michelle Urberg, our Head of Data, was a co-chair of the Video and Audio Metadata Guidelines Working group. Finally, Lettie Conrad, our Product Experience Architect, was a member and co-chair of the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI).
Now, as a voting member of NISO, LibLynx looks forward to contributing more valuable energy to our community’s information standards and shared infrastructure. We are especially eager to help shape our collective efforts in researcher identity management and classification of agentic or robotic content usage.