Director (2010 – present), Chairman (2010 – 2013)
Adam is Head of Digital Library Technology at the British Library, where he co-founded the Library’s Digital Preservation Team (www.bl.uk/dp) and initiated the Library’s dataset programme. He was Co-ordinator and Scientific Director of the EU co-funded Planets digital preservation project (www.planets-project.eu) and was a lead architect on the BL’s Digital Library System. He is President of DataCite, an international association dedicated to making it easier to identify, cite, and reuse scientific data; founder and Chairman of the Open Planets Foundation; and serves on the Board of the Digital Preservation Coallition. Prior to joining the Library, he was the principle knowledge management architect for Schlumberger (1998-2003) and research scientist at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory (1993-1998). He completed his PhD in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin (1993). Over the past twenty years, his work has focused on improving the ways in which people can represent, find, share, use, exploit, and preserve digitally encoded knowledge.

Director (2010 – 2012)
Hans is Deputy General Director of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the national library of the Netherlands. Over past 20 years he has been involved in numerous national and European projects in the library field. He has been project manager for the Dutch national programs for preservation (Metamorfoze) and digitisation (Memory of the Netherlands). In his present position he is responsible for innovation and development. He is currently involved in the further development of the national information infrastructure, with a focus on national programs and international projects in the field of large scale digitisation and digital preservation. His special interest lies in the research and development into methods and techniques for the long-term preservation of and permanent access to digital objects stored in the so-called e-Depot.

Chairman (2013 – present), Director (2010 – present)
Ross received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. After moving to Vienna in 1995, he migrated to the IT sector, and joined the Austrian Institute of Technology in 2002 to help found the Digital Memory Engineering group, which he presently leads. His research interests are primarily concerned with digital preservation and semantic multimedia information management. He has been active in a number of European projects, including TELplus, Planets, and EuropeanaConnect. He is also the coordinator of the upcoming FP7 Integrated Project “SCAPE” (SCAlable Preservation Environments).

Director (2010 – present)
After her study in Information Communication Technology, Jacqueline worked at the computer centre of the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water management for 7 years. In 1994, she joined the Dutch State Archive Service, where she was responsible for different information technology projects including the Dutch Testbed. When the institution transformed into the National Archives of The Netherlands in 2003, a Digital Longevity Department was founded. She headed this department until 2010, when she was appointed Head of the new sector Digital Innovation.