[Eril-l] Ed Pentz to Receive NISO’s 2024 Miles Conrad Award

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Baltimore, Maryland, November 29, 2023: The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) announced today that Ed Pentz of Crossref will be the
recipient of the 2024 Miles Conrad Award, a lifetime achievement award for
those working in the information community.

Ed is the founding Executive Director of Crossref, the largest open
scholarly infrastructure provider globally. As an active champion of
openness in scholarly communication, he has driven or been involved in the
founding and governance of a number of organizations and initiatives in
this space and is a leading proponent of the Principles of Open Scholarly
Infrastructure (POSI) that support the long-term sustainability and
availability of the infrastructure enabling research communication and
scholarship. He is well known for his leadership and diplomacy in building
consensus across the community to resolve some of the most challenging
issues in scholarly communications.

Prior to launching Crossref, Ed held electronic publishing, editorial, and
sales positions at Harcourt Brace in the US and UK. There he managed the
launch of Academic Press’s first online journal, the Journal of Molecular
Biology, in 1995. This work led him to join the Association of American
Publishers’ Enabling Technologies Committee and participate in the DOI-X
pilot project to use DOIs to enable journal article reference linking,
which laid the groundwork for the creation of Crossref.

With a mission to make it possible to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse
research—from journals and books to preprints and grants—Crossref, founded
in 2000, has grown under Ed’s leadership to be an essential part of the
research ecosystem, with nearly 20,000 members in 155 countries and a
registry of metadata and persistent identifiers for over 150 million
research objects. As Crossref has grown, Ed has focused on building a
collaborative, diverse, and equitable “remote first” culture at the
organization. He leads a staff of 48 people, all working remotely from 11
countries across 7 time zones.

Ed has played a pivotal role in developing important keystones of open
scholarly infrastructure by co-founding ROR, a global, community-led
registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations, with an
innovative operating model of being jointly run by Crossref, DataCite, and
the California Digital Library. He was also a founding member of the ORCID
board, serving in that capacity for 10 years (four of them as Chair) and
securing start-up funding to launch the organization.

Throughout his career, collaboration and community engagement have been
constant themes as Ed has led community projects and initiatives. He has
guided the boards of the DOI Foundation (as treasurer for many years) and
the Digital Object Naming Authority (DONA). He was also a trustee and
treasurer of UKSG and served on the Steering Committee of the Coalition for
Diversity in Scholarly Publishing (C4DISC).

NISO will recognize Ed’s achievement at the Miles Conrad Award ceremony and
lecture, taking place during the NISO Plus 2024 conference in Baltimore at
12:00 pm ET on February 13, 2024. For more information about the
conference, please visit https://niso.plus.

“We’re excited to recognize Ed’s contributions to the information community
with this award,” said NISO Executive Director Todd Carpenter. “It’s
difficult to overstate his impact on scholarly communications and
infrastructure, not just through his work at Crossref, but also through his
leadership and involvement in many groundbreaking initiatives across the
community. We look forward to his lecture at the NISO Plus meeting in
February.”

About the Miles Conrad Award

Miles Conrad was one of the founders of the National Federation of
Abstracting and Indexing Services (NFAIS), and this award was established
in 1965 in his memory. During the 1960s, Conrad encouraged NFAIS
members—scholarly societies and government agencies—to work collaboratively
in support of the space exploration program, in order to enhance the speed
with which scientific knowledge could be disseminated, discovered, and
acted upon. In the years that followed, NFAIS expanded its
cross-disciplinary membership and played an important role in the
development of online information services and resources, before merging
with National Information Standards Organization (NISO) in 2019. NISO’s
vision of a world where all can benefit from the unfettered exchange of
information reflects the aims of both organizations; in awarding this
prize, we are proud to continue recognizing the contributions of those
whose lifetime achievements have moved our community forward. A list of
previous Miles Conrad Award winners is available on the NISO website:
https://www.niso.org/awards/MCA.

About NISO

Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO fosters the development and maintenance of
standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org

NISO 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211 Phone:
301.654.2512 E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
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