The project, which originated at Penn State, has two formal partner organizations including Internet2 and Simon Fraser University of Canada.  The LionShare team has informal relationships with the ProLearn Project, Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI). Internet2 is contributing a variant of their Shibboleth technology, which will facilitate the secure sharing of resources between institutions using the LionShare network. The OKI is designing coding standards that will allow easy integration of shared information between participating institutions while developers from Simon Fraser University are working on technology that will eventually make it possible for LionShare users to access national repositories using a single search inquiry. Oxford University is developing a test-bed of LionShare for UK universities.