RDA Europe Forum

The RDA Europe Forum brings together 10 experts, chaired by John Wood, RDA Council & Secretary General Association of Commonwealth Universities, that will help policy makers define strategic plans and provide input to the Research Data Alliance (RDA) process. For this purpose it will define recommendations to foster the convergence of data integration, interoperability and infrastructures. Members are strategic-thinking technologists and policy makers bringing deep insights into the emerging landscape:

– Paul Ayris, Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer; President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries); Chair of the LERU community of Chief Information Officers (League of European Research Universities)
– Paul Boyle, ESRC Chief Executive, RCUK International Champion and President of Science Europe
– Donatella Castelli, Senior Researcher,`Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione, `A. Faedo` of the National Council of Research of Italy
– Sandra Collins, Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)
– Peter Linton, European Internet Foundation (EIF) Advisor
– Norbert Lossau, Vice-President Infrastructures, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
– Marja Makarow, Academy of Finland’s Vice President for Research
– Norman Wiseman, Head of Services and Acting Head of Innovation, JISC
– Jens Vigen, Head of the CERN Scientific Information Service
– Martin Vingron, Managing Director Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin