Jason Griffey is the Executive Director of the Open Science Hardware Foundation. Prior to joining OSHF, he was 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.
The EFF just announced that they are suing the FCC over the broadcast flag legislation. Let me take this moment to say: everyone who reads this should join the EFF. It’s one of the few causes where I know that my money is actually doing good things. I had a chance to meet Fred von Lohmann at the ALA conference in San Diego, and it just reinforced that these guys have their stuff together.
Just wondering where it is? I seem busier now than before…how is everyone else doing?
This wooden kinetic sculpture from David C. Roy is one of the few things I’ve ever seen that just makes me want it. There’s something intrinsically beautiful about the mathmatic regularity of it…it’s just pure in some way. Then again, it may just be the Victorian Steampunk in me that also makes me like these clocks. Cory has really good taste.
Comps over!!!! I hope that everyone enjoys the break…(and I was just kidding about posting my comp paper…jeez guys)
I hope that everyone at UNC has fun tomorrow with Comps. I’ll be in Davis, sipping a Diet Coke and hiding in a corner somewhere trying to get the damn thing done. Good luck, everybody. I wonder if there are any rules about posting the content after I’m finished? Just for the heck of it…
In good news for Joss Whedon fans, a movie based on Firefly has gotten the greenlight. They’ve even managed to sign the original cast! Great news, and anyone who hasn’t discovered this sci-fi gem should definitely take a look.
One day, sir…one day.
From LISNews and The Internet Archive, a “vocational guidance film” about librarians.
No no no…not that Hall of Fame. This Hall of Fame.