CrossRef's Chuck Koscher Chairs NISO
Chuck Koscher, CrossRef's Director of Technology, begins his term as Chair of the National Information Standards Organization. Here's an exerpt from NISO's press release:
Chuck Koscher, Director of Technology at CrossRef, who was elected last year and has served as Vice Chair during the current term, will become Chair of NISO for the 2009-10 term.
“NISO has a great deal of opportunity before us,” said Koscher, the incoming Chair.“With recent successes on the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) and Shared Electronic Resources Understanding (SERU), new work on single sign-on authentication and Cost of Resource Exchange (CORE), as well as potential projects on XML structures, physical delivery, and e-resource management, NISO is at the forefront of technology issues facing the information community. Helping to lead the organization in this exciting time will be a great honor.”
Please see the NISO Press release for more information.