Architecture Committee
Committee Description
The NISO Architecture Committee was formed in early 2007 in response to a strategic restructuring. The Architecture Committee is responsible for providing strategic direction for the organization, provide oversight and leadership for standards development in areas new to NISO, and coordinate with and provide guidance to the NISO Topic Committees (Business Information Topic Committee, Content & Collection Management Topic Committee, and Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee).
Mission
The Architecture Committee (AC) is the key strategic review committee in NISO's standards development work. Bringing together a diverse group of industry leaders from each segment of NISO's membership, the Architecture Committee provides guidance to the NISO Board of Directors, NISO staff and the Topic Committees. The primary responsibility of the Architecture Committee is to provide strategic input, coordination, and audit review to the portfolio of NISO standards. It also provides a structure for bringing in new ideas and initiatives into the NISO standards process, as well as provides a forum for engaging the broader community.
The Architecture Committee advises the Board and NISO staff on the overall work at the strategic level. It works closely with a group of Topic Committees to proactively develop, promote the adoption of and maintain standards necessary to help the community create, exchange and use information. These Topic Committees manage discrete standards portfolios at a tactical level, including management of Working Groups and the review of new project proposals.
Committee Roster
Committee Chair
- Jeremy Frumkin
Chief Technology Strategist and Assistant Dean
University of Arizona Libraries
Committee Members
- Oren Beit Arie
Chief Strategy Officer
Ex Libris Group - Karen Coyle
Digital Library Consultant - Mike Crandall
Chair, Master of Science in Information Management
University of Washington - Lorcan Dempsey
Vice President and Chief Strategist
OCLC - Cliff Lynch (advisor)
Director
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) - Sally McCallum
Chief, Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress - Cliff Morgan
Vice President, Planning & Development Director
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. - Evan Owens
Chief Technology Officer
Portico - Oliver Pesch
Chief Strategist of E-Resources
EBSCO Information Services - Jenny Walker
Executive Vice President, Marketing
CredoReference
Ex Officio Members
- Julia Blixrud
Co-Chair, NISO Content and Collection Management Topic Committee
Assistant Executive Director, External Relations
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) - Kathleen Folger
Co-Chair, NISO Business Information Topic Committee
Senior Associate Librarian
University of Michigan Library - Ted Koppel
Co-Chair, NISO Content and Collection Management Topic Committee
AGent Verso (ILS) Product
Auto-Graphics, Inc. - Anthony (Tony) O'Brien
Chair, NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee
Cooperative Discovery Services Development Division
OCLC - Helen Szigeti
Co-Chair, NISO Business Information Topic Committee
Business Development Manager
HighWire Press, Stanford University
- Todd Carpenter
Managing Director
NISO - Karen A. Wetzel
Standards Program Manager
NISO