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 Document.
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.
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Current Elected Council Members
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Jill Benn Co-Chair, RDA Council |
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Edit Herczog Managing Director, |
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Sandra Collins University Librarian, |
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Robert Hanisch Director, |
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Ingrid Dillo Co-Chair, RDA Council |
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Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros Professor, University of Campinas, |
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Joyce Gosata Maphanyane Researcher, |
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Lee Wilson Director of Research Data Managament, |
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Jason Haga Chief Senior Research Scientist, |
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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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Council Rotation Schedule
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Term expires 2023 |
Term expires 2024 |
Term expires 2025 |
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Sandra Collins (2nd term) |
Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros (2nd term) | Jill Benn (2nd term) |
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Edit Herczog (2nd term) |
Ingrid Dillo (2nd term) | Lee Wilson |
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Joyce Gosata Maphanyane |
Jason Haga (2nd term) |
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| Robert Hanisch (2nd term, exceptionally extended to 2023) |
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:
- 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 |
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