RDA Technical Advisory Board

The Technical Advisory Board provides technical expertise and advice to the Council. It also assists in developing and reviewing RDA Working Groups to promote their impact and effectiveness. The Technical Advisory Board is responsible for the development, maintenance and evolution of the RDA Technical Strategy. There are 12 members of the TAB set up in phases, the first six members were appointed  by the RDA Council, five more were elected after the Second Plenary in Washington. A final appointee was then made to bring greater regional balance across TAB. At the fourth Plenary in Amsterdam, four more members were elected to replace four of the appointees. The election in September 2015, will replace the last two appointees and two other elected members. There will then be a regular election every year for four members to serve three year terms.

The 12 current members of TAB are:

	Françoise Genova, Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre CDS - TAB Co-chair
	Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology, Australian National Data Service - TAB Co-chair
	Wenbo Chu, Deputy Director at the National Science and Technology Infrastructure Center of China
	Simon J D Cox,  Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Australia
	Stephen Diggs, Hydrographic Data Group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
	Ingrid Dillo, Deputy Director at DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services)
	Peter Fox,  Tetherless World Constellation Chair, Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Computer Science, Director of the Information Technology and Web Science Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
	Larry Lannom, Director of Information Services and Vice President at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives
	Carole Palmer, Professor, Information School at the University of Washington
	Susanna-Assunta Sansone,  Associate Director and Principal Investigator, University of Oxford e-Research Centre, Consultant for the Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
	Rainer Stotzka, Leader of  “Software Methods” department and software development group “Big Data”, Institute for Data Processing and Electronics,  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
	Peter Wittenburg, The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics