Scientific Board

The Scientific Board receives guidance from the Advisory Board and provides a high level supervision of the network’s integration and research activities. It promote and assess the scientific quality of the network, define means to implement all major technical decisions, define funding policies, identify the need for significant changes in the NoE work-plan and oversees their implementation. The Board is composed of the Scientific Coordinator of the Network and the Work Package Leaders. The Administrative Coordinator will also attend meetings of the Scientific Board to guarantee coordination between scientific and integration activities and the necessary administrative back-up actions.

Present Board Members

• Bruno Le Dantec, ERCIM
  Administrative Coordinator
     
• Constantino Thanos
  Scientific Coordinator
   
• Hans-Jörg Schek, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, University for Health Informatics and Technology, Tyrol
  Coordinator of WP1 (Digital Library Architecture)
    
• Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens
  Coordinator of WP2 (Information Access and Personalization)
    
• Alberto Del Bimbo, Università degli Studi di Firenze
  Coordinator of WP3 (Audio/Visual and Non-traditional Object), together with Stavros Christodoulakis
    
• Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete
  Coordinator of WP3 (Audio/Visual and Non-traditional Object), together with Alberto del Bimbo
    
• Tiziana Catarci, DIS Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "Antonio Ruberti"
  Coordinator of WP4 (User Interfaces and Visualisation)
    
• Elizabeth Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath
  Coordinator of WP5 (Knowledge extraction and Semantic Interoperability)
    
• Seamus Ross, HATII, University of Glasgow and ERPANET
  Coordinator of WP6 (Preservation and Curation)
    
• Norbert Fuhr, Universität Duisburg-Essen Germany
  Coordinator of WP7 (DL Evaluation)
    
• Vittore Casarosa, ISTI-CNR
  Coordinator of WP8 (Dissemination and Spreading of Excellence)