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Makx Dekkers
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Makx Dekkers has been the Managing Director of DCMI since March 2001. In this position, he has overall responsibility for the activities, finances and external relations of the Initiative.
His main areas of interest and experience are development, interoperability and management of metadata solutions, both from a strategic as well as a technical perspective. In recent years, he has also been involved in projects concerning the organisation of and access to public sector information in Europe. Over the last two decades, he has been involved in many international projects in the area of information networking. Before joining DCMI, he was development manager at a company in the Netherlands that develops software and services for library automation and co-operation, and manager technology solutions at a global consultancy company. He holds a M.Sc. in Theoretical Chemistry, Computer Science and History of Science of Utrecht University.
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Thomas Baker
Chief Information Officer
Thomas H. Baker was the DCMI Director Specifications and Documentation since May 2005. He is currently the Chief Information Officer of DCMI Ltd., and is the chair (and founder) of the DCMI Usage Board. He has previously worked as a researcher on digital library issues at the Göttingen State and University Library in Germany and a Project Leader for Digital Libraries at the Birlinghoven Library of the Fraunhofer Society in Bonn. He holds an M.S. in library science from Rutgers University, a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University, and taught for two years at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. He has worked as a partner and activity lead in several EU-funded projects, such as SCHEMAS, CORES, and the DELOS Network of Excellence. He currently co-chairs a working group on interoperable metadata profiles in the Compentence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM) and the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group of the World-Wide Web Consortium.
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