Jason Griffey was most recently the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he worked to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise was useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of Library IT and a tenured professor at the University of TN at Chattanooga.
Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently a chapter in Library 2035 - Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries by Rowman & Littlefield. His latest full-length work Standards - Essential Knowledge, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, was published by MIT Press in March 2025.
He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.
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[…] wordle thing is catching on and I couldn’t be happier! Jason had the brilliant idea to dump the text of a novel into wordle to produce an interesting visualization of word frequency. Then he tagged me, so I get to play […]
[…] memes go to die, but this one is too good to pass up. Maybe because I’m a word person, but Pattern Recognition tagged me for creating a Wordle tag cloud based on a book. Well, I’m taking liberties and made a tag […]
[…] wordle thing is catching on and I couldn’t be happier! Jason had the brilliant idea to dump the text of a novel into wordle to produce an interesting visualization of word frequency. Then he tagged me, so I get to play […]
[…] Here Jason Griffey posted a graphic of the word frequency from Cryptonomicon. Certainly a pretty cool way to analyze this info in a more visual way. […]
[…] Newman tagged me for this meme, and since it involves the pretty word clouds of Wordle, why would I not take the challenge? So, I […]