The Executive Board members in 2012 are as follows:
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Jussi Nuorteva is director general of the National Archives of Finland since 2003 and adjunct professor of the University of Helsinki. In APA he presents the Delegation of the Finnish Academies of Sciences and Letters. He has concentrated on the challenges of permanent preservation of digital records and research data, access to information and electronic publishing. He is board member of CSC – Center IT Center for Science and chaired the Finnish governmental Committee of public information 2000-2009. He was secretary general of the Research Council of Culture and Society at the Academy of Finland in the 1990s and has a wide international experience from the European Commission, UNESCO, ESF and science academies organizations. |
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Juan Bicarregui is the vice-chair |
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William Kilbride (treasurer) is Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), a not for profit membership organisation which exists to enable and advocate long term access to digital objects. William started his career as an archaeologist in which processes are often unrepeatable making the archives from previous research essential for the viability of future research. This led him to an on-going association and specialisation in digital preservation. He was previously Lecturer in Archaeology at Glasgow University, Assistant Director of the Archaeology Data Service at the University of York and Research Manager at Glasgow Museums. He is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Southampton and retains an honorary lectureship at Glasgow University. |
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Peter Doorn is director of Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). In APA he represents the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD), of which he is executive board member. Peter studied human geography in Utrecht and defended his PhD at that university. He taught computing for historians at Leiden university between 1985 and 1997. He was director of the Netherlands Historical Data Archive and head of department at the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI). He is involved in several data infrastructure projects, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. |
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Reinhard Altenhöner, is head of the IT-department of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), the national library of Germany. Based on his experiences in building up digital library services and infrastructure in leading positions at different locations in Bonn, Münster and Mainz he is responsibile for the IT-structure, -services and further development / strategy at DNB in Frankfurt/Main and Leipzig. DNB provides national services and is involved in a lot of national and European projects. Topics of interest are standardisation, data/ data-interoperability, semantic technologies, special attention is on digital preservation. He is member in different boards and scientific steering committees, he periodically publishes on different topics. |
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Eefke Smith (vice-chair from 2008-2011) is the Director of Standards and Technology of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). The STM Association is the leading global trade association for academic and professional publishers. It has over 110 members in 21 countries who each year collectively publish nearly 66% of all journal articles and tens of thousands of monographs and reference works.Her professional background includes responsibility for the development of several successful scholarly information products, among which ScopusTM, ScirusTM and ScienceDirectTM. She has also spent many years in the print world of academic publishing in areas such as Physics, Astronomy, Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics. After her university studies in the mid-eighties, she started her working life as a newspaper journalist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad writing on research and high-tech developments. Next to her STM work, Eefke works as an independent consultant in new business development, e-publishing and innovations. |
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Salvatore Mele (board member 2008-2011 and now ex-offico member as coordinator of the ODE project) is head of Open Access at CERN where he manages the SCOAP3 initiative and oversees the INSPIRE digital library. He contributes to several international projects and initiatives to understand and design policies and governance for the management of scientific information; Open Access publishing; and emerging issues in data preservation, re-use and sharing. In his previous carrier as a physicist he led teams which measured fundamental physics constants, hunted for the Higgs boson and searched for extra dimensions. |
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Neil Grindley (JISC) is responsible for organising and managing the JISC strand of work in the area of Digital Preservation and works closely with colleagues across a number of overlapping and adjacent areas of work in JISC, including: the Repositories programme, the Managing Research Data programme and Digital Libraries initiatives. The scope of JISC Digital Preservation activity requires interaction with archivists and records managers in addition to digital preservation and curation practitioners, many of whom might describe themselves first and foremost in a number of other roles, e.g. repository manager, data librarian, computer scientist, etc. Cross-domain working and partnership building is therefore another essential prerequisite for taking the programme forward, both at a national and international level. The programme has also funded work in the area of cost and economic modelling in relation to the digital object lifecycle and more general issues around sustainability and green computing where it relates to the long term storage and appraisal of data. |
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Pirjo-Leena Forsstrom (CSC) did her Ph.D. in computational Earth Science at the University of Helsinki. She has been Director of Data Services for Science and Culture at CSC since August 2007, and her previous work experience includes tasks as data acquisition system designer, scientific visualization expert, development manager for Networking and Visualisation, and scientific software specialist. She coordinates a national initiative on GIS-related issues for science on behalf of the Ministry of Education. She is an advisor for the Nordic Minister Council in IT and Information Society–related issues and is involved in several national task forces for Long Term storage and Open Access. |
| Stefan Strathmann (nestor) |
Former Board members:
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Prof. Keith Jeffery (chair from 2008-2011) is currently Director International Relations at STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council). Keith previously had operational responsibility for IT with 360,000 users, 1100 servers and 140 staff. Keith holds 3 honorary visiting professorships, is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and the British Computer Society, is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT Professional and an Honorary Fellow of the Irish Computer Society. Keith is currently vice-president (past president) of ERCIM and president of euroCRIS, and serves on international expert groups, conference boards and assessment panels. |
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Matthias Hemmje is full professor at the University of Hagen (FernUniversität in Hagen FUH), one of the leading distance universities in Germany. He is involved in FUH’s research clusters on Virtual Information and Knowledge Environments, Technology Enhanced Learning and E-Education, Knowledge-based Virtual Collaboration Environments, as well as Long term Archival and Digital Preservation. His ongoing research and development activities are related to Distributed Collaborative Digital Libraries, Multimedia Archives, Information Retrieval, Filtering, Linking, Enrichment, Personalization, and Information Visualization. He is building on research expertise from a long standing history in national and European projects. He also guides research in the area of content engineering, knowledge technologies, peer-to-peer based systems, collaboration and e-learning support systems as well as mobile and location based services. |
| Richard Boulderstone (British Library) |
