The Foundation

Airiti

Jieh is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the National Taiwan University. He is also the director of the NTU Research Center for Digital Humanities, the first such center in the Sinophone world. He has received a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and had served 6 years as the University Librarian of NTU and 8 years as the Director of NTU Press. Before returning to Taiwan, he was a full professor in Computer Science at Stony Brook University. Dr. Jieh Hsiang has been on the advisory board of several national and international institutions and agencies. He was the first President of the Taiwanese Association of Digital Humanities, as well as a past President of the Taiwanese Association of Artificial Intelligence.

Chinese DOI

Having been working for ISTIC for over 30 years, Qiao is in charge of the daily operation of WanfangData Co. Ltd., which is invested by ISTIC and one of most important on-line academic information providers in China. Before that, Qiao was the Chief Engineer of ISTIC, responsible for design, development, operation and popularization of the digital library platforms of both National S&T Library (NSTL) and ISTIC. He has been working with International Committee of S&T Information for about 10 years and is the vice chairman of it now.

CNKI

Hong Xiao now serves as Vice President of CNKI, as well as Editor-in-chief of China Academic Journals (CD Edition) Electronic Publishing House Co., Ltd., the publishing entity of CNKI. Prior to high management of CNKI, he was successively in charge of Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences, Journal Publishing Center of Science Press, and Science China Press, Chinese Academy of Sciences. XIAO Hong is a State Council Special Allowance Expert, with profound experiences spanning STM publishing, scientometrics research, subject information management, and academic resources’ global dissemination during the past three decades.

DataCite

Matt leads the team at DataCite who provide the means to create, find, cite, connect, and use research globally. DataCite is a global community that share a common interest: to ensure that research outputs and resources are openly available and connected so that their reuse can advance knowledge across and between disciplines, now and in the future. Prior to joining DataCite, Matt was the Director of Engagement at ORCID where he played an important role in growing the community into an international-scale research effort.

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EIDR

Raymond is Principal Scientist at Movielabs. He has been in the industry for more than 25 years primarily as a technologist. He has designed and implemented systems that range from the first fully interactive digital cable network in Europe, through the first-ever networked digital video system for journalists at an international sporting event, to real-time robotics systems for special effects and mechanical-industrial performance pieces. Before joining MovieLabs Raymond was CTO at Aggregator TV, a UK-based IPTV content company, and before that CTO and VP of engineering at Liberate Technologies. He has also been Director of Technology for New Media at Sybase; Principal Engineer and Architect for graphics systems at Digital Equipment Corporation. His patents, publications, and contributions to technical standards cover distributed multimedia systems and graphics hardware and software. Raymond has a BA in Classics (Latin) and Computer Science from Yale University.

JaLC

Hideaki Takeda is a professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII) Japan, and a professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai). He received Dr. Eng. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1991. His major research topic is Artificial Intelligence, in particular, Semantic Web. His interest also includes Scholarly Communication. He is currently the chair of Japan Link Center, a Board Member of CLOCKSS and a member of Membership Advisory Board of arXiv.

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mEDRA

Paola has been working in the publishing and content industry since 2000 with a particular focus on the role played by technology and innovation in the digital value chain, building bridges between the pure content-centered approach and the technology centered approach. Since 2005, Paola oversees the daily operations of mEDRA DOI RA and leads the IT team behind the DOI RA infrastructure, the Italian ISBN Agency, the LIA service for the creation of accessible content for visually impaired readers. Paola loves metadata, identifiers and standards and happily engages with standard settings organizations such as EDItEUR, ISO, W3C and the DOI Foundation that she is Chairing since 2015.

Her true-real life passions, however, are her two sons, hiking, good food and heavy metal music, not always in this exact order, though. Paola lives in Milan, Italy.

BSI Identify

Will is the Head of Operational Delivery for BSI Identify. Will and his team have the substantial mission to create and then establish BSI Identify as the trusted persistent registry for construction products, supporting the industry with digital traceability. He is responsible for all operational aspects including the technical design of the service and supporting customers to create a positive onboarding and ongoing experience. Will has worked for BSI for twenty years gaining substantial commercial experience within technical publishing and in delivering public interest and innovation programmes. Based in London, UK, Will holds a BEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham.

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Crossref

Ed became Crossref’s first Executive Director when the organization was founded in 2000 and manages all aspects of the organization to ensure that it fulfills its mission to make research outputs easy to find, cite, link and assess. Ed was Chair of the ORCID board of directors from 2014-2017 and is current Treasurer of the DOI Foundation. Prior to joining Crossref, Ed held electronic publishing, editorial and sales positions at Harcourt Brace in the US and UK and managed the launch of Academic Press’s first online journal, the Journal of Molecular Biology, in 1995. Ed has a degree in English Literature from Princeton University and lives in Oxford, England. Read Ed’s thinking about scholarly infrastructure on his blog.

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KISTI

Jinseop is Director of Korea DOI Center & Senior Researcher at Digital Curation Center, KISTI. Full bio to come. Placeholder: Jinseop is Director of Korea DOI Center & Senior Researcher at Digital Curation Center, KISTI. Full bio to come. Jinseop is Director of Korea DOI center & Senior Researcher at Digital Curation Center, KISTI. Full bio to come.

Jinseop is Director of Korea DOI Center & Senior Researcher at Digital Curation Center, KISTI. Full bio to come.

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HAND (Human & Digital)

Will is the CEO and founder of HAND (Human & Digital). Formerly: executive director of EIDR, director of metadata at Showtime Networks, and director of video product management at Charter/Time Warner (participated in CableLabs unique ID working group, contributing to EIDR’s early formation). Current working group co-chair at DDEX.net - developing interoperability standards for the future of music’s metadata supply-chain, and current co-chair of the standards register WG of the Metaverse Standards Forum. Additionally, Will was a co-founder of Wired magazine, and worked with educational software developers at the Apple Multimedia Lab.

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Publications Office of the European Union

Jan has been working for EU institutions (Eurostat and Publications Office) since 2005. Currently, he is Head of unit “Data Operations and Enrichment Services”, ensuring the appropriate quality of metadata for EU publications so that they are findable by their intended audience and can provide a sound basis for AI-based solutions. Jan supervises the team in charge of keeping the DOI Registration Agency operational. He lives in Luxembourg.