DCMI is pleased to announce the appointment of Niklas Lindström as Co-Chair of the DCMI Usage Board. Niklas has a background as a consultant in web and data technologies, was part of the W3C RDFa 1.1 working group, and co-authored JSON-LD 1.0. He now works as a systems developer at the National Library of Sweden, focusing on linked data structures, semantics, protocols, and interoperability. The Usage Board is the maintenance committee for all DCMI vocabularies, notably DCMI Metadata Terms and ISO 15836.