The Council maintains the vision of RDA, ensuring the guiding principles of the organisation are maintained, and formally endorses RDA Working and Interest Groups and Recommendations.
The Council is responsible for the overall oversight, success, strategy, and sustainability of the RDA. The powers and authority of the Council are described in the RDA Governance Document. Details of the processes governing Council membership and responsibilities are described in the Organisational and Process Plan.
Elected Council Members also serve as Trustees for the RDA Foundation, an official Charity registered in England and Wales under Company Number 9021881. Details are described in the Foundation’s Articles of Association.
Membership
Council Members are nominated by a Nomination Committee and approved by the general RDA membership as described in the Organisational and Process Plan Document. In addition to the 9 elected members, the Council has one permanent representative from UKRI-STFC, and other consensus forming non-voting members representing the Organisational Advisory Board (OA and OAB), Regional Advisory Board (RAB), Technical Advisory Board (TAB), and the Secretary-General.
Elected Council Members serve three-year terms and may be reelected for a maximum of two consecutive terms. Two co-chairs serve offset two-year terms. Full details on the Council election processes, balancing criteria and procedures (updated in 2022) are available in the RDA Council Election Processes & Procedures 2023 document.
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Current Elected Council Members
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Jill Benn Co-Chair, RDA Council |
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Wolfram Horstmann Director, |
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Juan Bicarregui* Head of Data Division, *RDA Council Non-voting consensus forming member representing STFC, RDA legal entity host.
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Sarah Jones Engagement Manager, |
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Ingrid Dillo Deputy director, Data Archiving and Networked Services |
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Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros Professor, University of Campinas, |
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Joyce Gosata Maphanyane Researcher, |
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Amy Nurnberger Program Head for Data Management Services, |
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Jason Haga Chief Senior Research Scientist, |
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Lee Wilson Co-Chair, RDA Council |
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Council Rotation Schedule
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Term expires 2024 |
Term expires 2025 |
Term expires 2026 |
| Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros (2nd term) | Jill Benn (2nd term) | Joyce Gosata Maphanyane (2nd term) |
| Ingrid Dillo (2nd term) | Lee Wilson | Sarah Jones |
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Jason Haga (2nd term) |
Amy Nurnberger |
Wolfram Horstmann |
Meetings
The Council meets three times per year—twice during or before RDA Plenaries and once between Plenaries, typically in May. Minutes of the meetings are available below:
- Minutes 2023
- Face to Face Meeting 27 October 2023, Salzburg
- Virtual Meeting 7 September 2023
- Virtual Meeting 19 July 2023
- Virtual Meeting 26 April 2023
- Face to Face Meeting 20 March 2023, Salzburg
- Virtual Meeting 25 January 2023
- Face to Face Meeting 3-4 November 2022, Dublin
- Virtual Meeting 20 September 2022
- Virtual Meeting 29 June 2022
- Virtual Meeting 27 April 2022
- Virtual Meeting 17 February 2022
- Virtual Executive Meeting 7 December 2021
- Virtual Meeting 8 June 2021
- Virtual Meeting P17 27 April 2021
- Virtual Meeting 11 February 2021
- Virtual Meeting 14 December 2020
- Virtual Meeting P16 4 November 2020
- Virtual Meeting 5 October 2020
- Virtual Strategy Meeting June 2020
- Virtual Meeting May 2020
- Virtual Meeting March 2020
- Telcon February 2020
- Meeting Helsinki October 2019
- Meeting The Hague June 2019
- Meeting Philadelphia March 2019
- Meeting Gaborone November 2018
- Meeting Troy June 2018
- Meeting Berlin March 2018
- Telecon February 2017
- Virtual meetings December 2016
- Meeting Denver September 2016
- Meeting Melbourne May 2016
- Meeting Tokyo March 2016
- Telecon January 2016
- Meeting Paris June 2015
- Meeting San Diego March 2015
- Meeting Rome December 2014
- Meeting Amsterdam September 2014
- Meeting Paris May 2014
Subcommittees
The Council has established several Council subgroups to assist in Council business and to advise Council in important areas. Subgroup members are appointed by Council and may include members outside of the official Council.
Emeritus Council members
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Fran Berman Chair, RDA/US, Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Patrick Cocquet Chief Executive Officer, Cap Digital cluster |
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Tony Hey Chief Data Scientist, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) |
Bernard Minster Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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Satoshi Sekiguchi Deputy Director General, Directorate for Information Technology and Electronics, AIST |
Michael Stanton Director of Research and Development at the Brazilian NREN (RNP) |
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Doris Wedlich Chief Science Officer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Ross Wilkinson Co-Chair, Director Global Strategy, Australian Research Data Commons |
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John Wood Advisory Board Chair, ATTRACT |
Kay Raseroka Independent consultant and Trainer, IFLA Building Strong Library Associations |
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Mark Leggott Director, International Relations, Digital Research Alliance of Canada |
Sandra Collins University Librarian, University College Dublin
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Edit Herczog Managing Director, Vision & Values SPRL |
Robert Hanisch Director, National Institutes of Standards and Technology |
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