Lisa Schiff
Co-Founder at National Information Standards Organization
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLisa Schiff is a seasoned leader in scholarly communication and open access with 14+ years of experience designing library-based publishing and metadata systems from the technical trenches to organizational strategy. As Associate Director at the California Digital Library and co-founder of the #DefendResearch initiative, she blends hands-on development and taxonomy expertise with public advocacy to protect and broaden access to research. Her governance roles with Crossref, DOAJ, ORCID, NISO, and the Digital Library Federation reflect deep domain influence on identifiers, controlled vocabularies, and standards. Comfortable translating complex information needs into practical services, she pairs a PhD in Library and Information Studies with a history of building preservation, ingest, and publishing infrastructure. Notably, she moves fluidly between technical leadership and civic engagement, championing both open-source solutions and public education around censorship and equitable access.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Library and Information Studies, PhD, Library and Information Studies at University of California, BerkeleyAB, Political Science, AB, Political Science at Bryn Mawr College
Github Skills (27)
journal10
open-access9
academia8
react6
chat6
client-library6
keybase5
react-native5
statement4
ios4
end-to-end-encryption4
pgp4
android4
creative-commons4
go3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cdlib/eschol-ojs
Apr 2012 - Jun 2020
Open Journal System
Contributions:306 commits, 110 pushes, 33 branches in 8 years 3 months
journal
lschiff/jschol
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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