Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Jason Griffey discussed how Blockchain, the much-hyped technology behind the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, can be adapted to improve the way libraries store information. Griffey is an affiliate fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and the creator of The LibraryBox Project, an open source portable digital file distribution system.
Griffey was speaking as part of the Gloriana St. Clair Distinguished Lectures in 21st Century Librarianship at CMU-Q. This series is named in honor of the dean of libraries emerita, who served as dean of Carnegie Mellon University Libraries from 1998 to 2013.
Read more about Griffey's talk and view the recording.