DCMI Governing Board

The Governing Board manages the affairs of DCMI and performs the duties usually performed by the board of directors of a corporation. These duties include providing direction for the general management of the Initiative, oversight of the DCMI Executive, stewardship of DCMI's finances, approval of DCMI bylaws, and a broad remit to shape the strategic direction of DCMI and formulate DCMI policies in consultation with the Executive and the wider community. The Governing Board also contributes to the promotion of the Initiative through liaisons with the public and private sectors.
  • Metadata Infrastructure Lead

    hbz – North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre

    Adrian is leading the Metadata Infrastructure team focusing on open standards, tools, and processes for the publication of structured data on the web.

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  • Metadata and University Collections Facility Manager

    University of Edinburgh

    Alasdair MacDonald, Metadata and Collections Facility Manager at Edinburgh University Library, specializes in RDA, MARC21, author identification, and metadata interoperability.

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  • Head of Automated Subject Indexing

    ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

    Dr. Argie (Anna) Kasprzik is leading the automation of subject indexing using machine learning methods at ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.

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  • Schema.org

    Dan Brickley, a key contributor to W3C’s Semantic Web project, helped shape its core technologies and now focuses on outreach for the Schema.org initiative.

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  • Coordinator of Libraries, General Coordination

    Universidade Estadual Paulista—Unesp

    Flávia Bastos, Coordinator of Libraries at Unesp, is Executive Coordinator of its Institutional Repository, specializing in digital libraries and library systems.

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  • Metadata strategist

    National Library of Sweden

    Fredrik is currently working with development of metadata policy and strategies at the National Library of Sweden.

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  • Senior Deputy Director/Senior Principal Librarian

    National Library Board Singapore

    Haliza Jailani is Senior Deputy Director/Senior Principal Librarian, Resource Discovery and Management at the National Library Board Singapore.

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  • Executive Director

    Ecuadorian National Research and Education Network (CEDIA)

    Juan Pablo Carvallo, Executive Director of CEDIA and part-time teacher at the University of Azuay, focuses on software quality, process improvement, and hybrid systems.

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  • Associate Professor

    Simmons University

    Kyong Eun Oh is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Ph.D. program in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University.

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  • Professor

    School of Information, Kent State University

    Marcia Lei Zeng, Professor, Kent State University (USA), is serving as the Chair of the DCMI Education Committee and a member of DCMI Governing Board.

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  • Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources & Discovery

    Brandeis University

    Mark's leadership portfolio at the Brandeis Library includes collections, interlibrary loan, scholarly communications, and systems.

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  • Senior Metadata Specialist

    McGraw Hill Education

    Mike Lauruhn, Senior Metadata Specialist at McGraw Hill Education, focuses on taxonomies and metadata. He is active in DCMI and has co-chaired its conferences.

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  • Information Systems Specialist

    National Library of Finland

    Dr. Osma Suominen is an information systems specialist working on automated subject indexing and cataloguing, vocabulary services and Linked Data.

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  • Director

    Antleaf Ltd.

    Paul Walk is a technical consultant with thirty years of experience working with information systems and web services primarily in the higher education.

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  • Distinguished Professor for Global Affairs

    Sungkyunkwan University

    Sam Oh, a distinguished professor at Sungkyunkwan University and affiliate at UW iSchool, is DCMI’s executive director and a leader in metadata and ontology design.

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  • Professor Emeritus

    University of Tsukuba

    Shigeo Sugimoto, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, has been active with DCMI since 1997 and serves on its Governing Board.

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  • Metadata Specialist

    Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen)

    Stefanie Rühle, of the Data Conversion Group at SUB Göttingen Library, specializes in analyzing, converting, and modeling cultural heritage metadata.

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  • Technology Director

    DCMI

    Tom helps lead the DCMI Directorate and Usage Board. Originally a social scientist, he has worked for 30 years on Semantic Web technologies.

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  • Deputy Director

    Shanghai Library

    Wei Liu (Keven), Deputy Director of Shanghai Library, has served on the DCMI Advisory Board since 2003, pioneering metadata and semantic web in China.

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