[SigLT-L] NISO Members Elect New Leadership for 2016-2017 Term

[NISO Announce]

Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have
selected their board's leadership for the 2016-2017 term, which will begin
on July 1, 2016. B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc.,
becomes Chair; and Chris Shillum, Vice President Product Management,
Platform and Data Integration at Reed Elsevier, has been elected Vice
Chair. Three other board members have also been confirmed: Gerry Grenier
(IEEE); Marian Hollingsworth (Thomson Reuters); and Evan Owens (Cenveo
Publisher Services).

Continuity is a welcome hallmark of this election's result: Usdin, Shillum,
Grenier, Hollingsworth, and Owens are all continuing another term of
service to NISO's board, continuity that helps the organization smoothly
advance its ongoing projects and goals. NISO Executive Director Todd
Carpenter welcomes the new board, commenting that, "Tommie, Chris, and the
whole board are deeply involved in work that impacts information sharing
technology and its users for decades to come. NISO is fortunate to have our
ideas and work guided by such a talented group."

Usdin and Shillum below describe their views of NISO's work and their goals
for the coming term; their professional biographies are also listed.

*B. Tommie Usdin, Chair*

I'm happy to help lead NISO in its important work supporting the library,
publisher, and information-interchange communities, says Usdin. "My work on
content markup has shown me how important it is to users and consumers of
information technology for standards to get it right. Involvement in
conferences and educational events, too, has brought home that
collaboration is essential, and collaboration among developers and users of
new resources is central to NISO's work. The stability in NISO's current
board facilitates continued teamwork; the tasks ahead are challenging, but
I foresee our working groups producing groundbreaking results that are
essential to our audience."

*B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy
specializing in XML systems for textual documents, has long been a leader
in the technology around content markup and the publishing production
process. She has organized a number of community efforts and conferences on
the subject, such as the Markup Technologies and Extreme Markup Languages
events, and is involved in the, Balisage conference series. She has served
as an active member of NISO's Board of Directors since 2013 and has been a
member of the NISO Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) and the NISO Standards
Tag Set (STS) working groups.*

*Chris Shillum, Vice Chair*

"I am gratified to continue my leadership at NISO, an organization whose
ability to bring together stakeholders with different, and sometimes
opposing, goals makes it a vital part of scholarly infrastructure. I look
forward to working on upcoming projects on, for example, data privacy, that
impact a diverse set of users and that urgently need addressing." Shillum
also commented that, "as a veteran board member, I've seen how NISO has
achieved consensus on contentious issues in the past. Such problems are
interesting and vital to tackle, and many face us going forward. In
addition, standards and other documents issued by NISO are regularly
reassessed, and the coming years will see familiar standards getting a
fresh look, a process in which it's rewarding to participate."

*Chris Shillum is Vice President Product Management, Platform and Data
Integration at Reed Elsevier, a position he has held since 2014. He has
worked for Elsevier since 1996, starting as Product Manager, Content, and
then held positions as Director, Product Development (1999-2001);
Publishing Technology Director (2001-2004); and Vice President Product
Management, Platform and Content (2004-2014).* *He has served a variety of
community organizations and served as a member of the NISO Board and as a
member of the NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee.*

*Additional Board Members*

Gerry Grenier is Senior Director, Publishing Technology at IEEE

Marian Hollingsworth is Director of Publisher Relations at Thomson Reuters

Evan Owens is Vice President, Publishing Technologies at Cenveo Publisher
Services

*About NISO*
NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance
of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website <http://www.niso.org/>.
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