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Gerhard Budin is full professor for terminology studies and translation technologies at the Centre of Translation Studies (CTS) at the University of Vienna. He is director of the Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology (ICLTT) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member (kM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is Chair holder of the UNESCO Chair for Multilingual, Transcultural Communication in the Digital Age.

His research interests and areas of teaching include language technologies, corpus linguistics, and knowledge engineering, E-Learning technologies, distributed digital research environments, terminology studies, ontology engineering, cognitive systems, cross-cultural knowledge communication and knowledge organization. For the last 25 years Gerhard Budin has been active in national, European, and international research projects in the areas mentioned above. Gerhard Budin is Chair of a technical sub-committee in the International Standards Organization (ISO) focusing on terminology and language resources, managing pre-normative research.

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Paolo Budroni, started working at the University of Vienna (Centre for Scientific Documentation) in 1991. Since 2005 he has been working at the University Library and Archive Services. He graduated with a PhD. in 1986, specialized in Foreign Trade at Vienna University of Business and Economics in 1988, and in 1997, he earned a Postgraduate Degree in European Integration for Public Administration. During a sabbatical over several years, he worked as a lecturer in marketing at the University of Perugia in Communication Sciences, Master Studies (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Scienze della Comunicazione, Master Studies) and as the Director of Marketing and Strategic Business Development Manager for a German telecommunications company. At the present time he is the Managing Director of Phaidra (Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets), a digital asset Management System with long-term archiving functionalities.

Link: www.phaidra.org 

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Kresimir Duretec is a Researcher at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the same department. Previously he graduated with MSc and BSc in Computer Science from the University of Zagreb in 2011 and 2009 respectively. Currently he is working on SCAPE and Austrian national project BenchmarkDP.

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Hans Fransen is subject librarian for the Science Faculty of Leiden University since 2011. Before that he worked as a subject librarian and information specialist at the library of Wageningen University. Also he practitioned as a civil engineer and building engineer both in the Netherlands and abroad. Currently his interests are the changing world of scholarly publishing (peer review, open access, data curation and management) and information literacy. He initiated a project on scholarly publishing support that is a collaboration of the University Library of Leiden and CWTS, Centre for Science and Technology Studies. As one of the two data librarians at Leiden University he is involved in most activities of the Leiden Research Data Office.
LinkedIn link: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15394785&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile 

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David Giaretta gained his MA, MSc and a doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Oxford University.
He has worked on a number of astronomical satellites, including the Hubble Space Telescope, ran a number of repositories of scientific data and has published numerous scientific articles.
He chaired the panel which produced the original and led the update of OAIS Reference Model (ISO 14721).
He led the production of the ISO standard (ISO 16363) for audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories, and the creation of the certification process. In 2003 he was awarded an MBE for services to Space Science and 2012 the Emmett Leahy Award.
He is the director of the Alliance for Permanent Access.

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Marjan Grootveld is project manager and policy consultant at DANS. Enabling the re-use of knowledge, information and data is the common element in her career, ranging from corporate knowledge management via red tape reduction in eGovernment to sustainable data management in academia. At DANS Marjan is currently involved in certification activities (Data Seal of Approval, DIN 31644 and ISO 16363), as well as in data management support for research organisations. DANS participates in various national and international networks, such as the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD).
Link: http://dans.knaw.nl/ 

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Stefan Hein is a Software Developer in the context of processing digital objects and their Digital Preservation at the DNB since 2010. He graduated with a Diploma in Computer Science at the Humboldt University at Berlin. The current main focus of his work is the further development of the ingest workflow for example with capabilities for validating and identifying digital objects and their long term preservation.

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Ayhan Kaygusuz has been library director of Istanbul Şehir University since 2010. He worked as library director of Istanbul Technical University for 13 years and Abant Izzet Baysal University for one year. Before that he worked for public library authority under the Ministry of Culture and run ISBN Agency and ISSN Center. Between 2000 and 2007 he was steering committe member and then president of ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium). He is interested in information literacy, open access and institutional repositories. He has been actively working on these subject areas with a group of library directors in Turkey.

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Ross King received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. After moving to Vienna in 1995, he migrated to the IT sector, and joined AIT in 2002 to help found the Digital Memory Engineering working group, which he presently leads as Program Manager for Next Generation Content Management Systems. Dr. King served on the Board of Directors of the FP6-IP Projects BRICKS and Planets. He is presently a Chairman of the Board of the Open Planets Foundation and the Coordinator of the FP7 Integrated Project SCAPE. His research interests are primarily concerned with multimedia information management and digital preservation.

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Marian Lefferts, is the Executive Manager of the Consortium of European Research Libraries. CERL promotes cultural heritage in print and manuscript, for example by hosting and maintaining the Heritage of the Printed Book database (HPB), the CERL Thesaurus, the CERL Portal and the Material Evidence in Incunabula database. CERL also (co-organises) events, publishes on provenance, and promotes the use of standards. This year CERL celebrates its 20th anniversary (for more details see www.cerl.org). CERL and LIBER are jointly responsible for the LIBER Forum for Digital Cultural Heritage, Marian support Claudia Fabian (BSB) in her position as Chairman of this Forum.

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Norbert Lossau (b. 1962) read Finno-Ugrian philology and Scandinavian studies at the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen. He worked for his doctorate at the Finno-Ugrian department of Göttingen University in the framework of Collaborative Research Centre 309, ‘Literary Translation’, completing it in 1991 with a dissertation on literary translation dealing with the writings of Hungarian poet Sándor Petöfi. In 1994 he entered higher training in academic librarianship, completing this successfully in 1996. From 1997, he established at the State and University Library of Lower Saxony one of two Competence Centres funded by the German Research Foundation for the digitisation of library holdings (Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum, GDZ). In 2001 Norbert Lossau became the first ‘Head of the Oxford Digital Library’ at the University of Oxford, before being appointed Director of the Library of Bielefeld University in 2002 and subsequently Director of the State and University Library, Göttingen, in 2006. In 2011 he became an Honorary Professor of the Humboldt University Berlin (Institute for Library and Information Sciences). Norbert Lossau is a member of numerous national and international boards, including the Committee on Scientific Library Services and information Systems (AWBI) of the German Research Foundation, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Advisory Committee, the working group ‘Digital Information in Research and Teaching’ of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), the Board of the German Library Association LIBER, the Board of the international Confederation of Open Access Repositories COAR (chairman), and the Working Group on Data Infrastructures of the G8 + O5 countries. He is scientific coordinator of the European project ‘OpenAIRE/plus’ and a member of the High Level Strategic Forum of the European Project iCordi in the context of the Research Data Alliance.

His focus areas in research and teaching include information and research infrastructures, e-research, open access and scholarly/scientific communication, as well as strategies for academic libraries.

http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/427732.html 

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Marion Massol is a research engineer who has been working on long-term preservation of digital data since March 2009. She is head of Digital Preservation Department at CINES (Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur), a French IT datacenter for the Higher Education and Research community. CINES is the national center for the preservation of French PhD theses, publishing (HAL), digitalized books and documents (Persée, university libraries, high schools, labs…), administrative data (labs, institutes, universities…). CINES is also the French repository of the pan-european EUDAT initiative (EUropean DATa infrastructure) for the accessing and preserving research data. Marion Massol is sharing her expertise in long-term preservation and quality insurance through national and international working groups (as pilot of the French working group called “PIN” on digital preservation and of the national initiative BSN6, member of the Data Seal of Approval board, APARSEN project, DARIAH project, national steering committee on the standard SEDA, expert in AFNOR and ISO standard working groups…) and trainings.

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JMarco de Niet is the director of the DEN foundation, the Dutch knowledge centre for digital heritage. He studied Dutch language and literature, and History of the book at Leiden University. Before DEN he worked at the National Library of the Netherlands, where he was a co-founder of the European Library service. He is actively involved in international networks, including Europeana and Unesco. He is also a core partner in ENUMERATE, that runs a statistical framework to measure the progress of digitisation in Europe.

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Carlos Morais Pires joined the European Commission in 1998 and is the Head of Sector in DG CONNECT for “Scientific Data e-Infrastructures” activities, as part of the European R&I Programme Horizon 2020. Before, he was lecturing computer networks and signal processing at the technical university in Lisbon. Carlos holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico (1996) after his work on video coding in Telecom Italia Labs.

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Andreas Rauber is Associate Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ifs) at the Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien). He furthermore is president of AARIT, the Austrian Association for Research in IT and a Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow. He received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he joined the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Pisa as an ERCIM Research Fellow, followed by an ERCIM Research position at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), at Rocquencourt, France, in 2002. From 2004-2008 he was also head of the iSpaces research group at the eCommerce Competence Center (ec3).

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Sven Schlarb, PhD, studied Humanities Computer Science at the University of Cologne. He has many years of experience as a software developer in various companies and institutions in Cologne, Madrid, and Vienna. In 2008 he joined the Austrian National Library as a Software Developer with a focus on digitisation and long term preservation. In the past, he participated in the European projects PLANETS (www.planets-project.eu) and IMPACT (www.impact-project.eu). Now he is working in the SCAPE project (www.scape-project.eu) on the implementation of Hadoop-based solutions for processing large data sets.

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Sabine Schrimpf is a Scientific Officer for Digital Preservation at the DNB since 2007. She holds a Master's degree in Book Studies and in Library and Information Science. She supports the nestor office at the German National Library and is involved in the daily coordination of the network's activities. She actively participates in the European projects APARSEN and 4C and was involved in the PARSE.Insight project and in the ODE project.

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Graduated from Innsbruck University, worked at Innsbruck University Library and changed to Vienna University Library, where she has been head of Vienna University Library and Archive Services since 2004

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Hans van Grieken is a Vice President for Business Innovation at Capgemini and part of the company's international innovation network. He delivers about 120 speeches worldwide on a yearly basis, covering 26 different markets and sectors. Through this international exposure to numerous markets/trends, Van Grieken is frequently consulted for his ideas around transferring Global Innovation Best Practices from one sector to the other. Hans is Adjunct Professor at Tias Nimbas Business School in Tilburg the Netherlands, a visiting lecturer at the Executive Master program of Delft University of Technology (Toptech) as well as a Executive Lecturer to Nyenrode International Business University in Breukelen The Netherlands.

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Jeffrey van der Hoeven is a business analyst at the National Library of the Netherlands (KB). He has been involved in various national and international projects such as the European projects PLANETS, KEEP, PARSE.insight and APARSEN. Between 2006 and 2012, Jeffrey worked on research and development of emulation targeted for long-term access to digital objects. This resulted in tools such as the emulator Dioscuri (Dioscuri project) and the Emulation Framework (KEEP project). Between 2009 and 2010 he also conducted several surveys and interviews regarding preservation and access of research data in Europe as part of the PARSE.insight project. Currently, Jeffrey is involved in scaling the digital library of the KB via process optimization and several ICT projects such as business intelligence and real time monitoring. Jeffrey holds a Masters degree in Computer Engineering which he received on the work done at IBM and its Universal Virtual Computer (UVC).

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Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University (Belgium), and in 2000 obtained a Ph.D. in Communication Science there. For many years, he headed Library Automation at Ghent University. After leaving Ghent in 2000, he was Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University, and Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. Currently, he is the team leader of the Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Team does research regarding various aspects of scholarly communication in the digital age, including information infrastructure, interoperability, digital preservation and indicators for the assessment of the quality of units of scholarly communication. Herbert has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse & Exchange specifications (OAI-ORE), the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, the SFX linking server, the bX scholarly recommender service, and info URI. Currently, he works with his team on the Open Annotation, Memento (time travel for the Web), ResourceSync, and Hiberlink projects.

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Els van Eijck van Heslinga studied history at the University of Leiden. She holds a PhD and worked as an assistent-professor in the field of maritime history in Leiden from 1976. In 1990 she joined the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam as head of Collections and deputy-Director. From 1999 till 2004 she was deputy-Director of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek/National Library of the Netherlands at the Hague. In 2004 she returned to Leiden University as general director of the Central Office of the university. As of April 2007 she again joined the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Currently she is director of Finance & Corporate Services.

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David Wang is a researcher at SBA Research, a national competence center in IT Security. His research focuses on digital preservation, cost and business models. He is currently involved in the EU project 4C. Previously, he has worked as an analyst for finance and insurance products.

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