The Advisory Board
  

With respect to the Scientific Board, the Advisory Board's role is threefold:

• it will provide external assessment of the results achieved by the network, acting as a peer-review council;
    
• it will provide guidance with respect to the network’s strategic orientations;
   
• it will provide support of the network’s excellence.
    

The board is composed of 5 senior external experts in the field, able to provide an impartial assessment of the work carried out by the network, and it will include at least two representatives of non-European research communities. The Scientific Coordinator of the Network, in agreement with the Commission, will nominate the members and the Chair of the AB.The independent experts of the board are required to make an annual assessment of the results achieved during the preceding year and the activities planned for the successive year of the Network, and to provide recommendations for improving the network’s efficiency and excellence. 
They will meet annually in order to review the activities and achievements of the Network, based on the activity reports, the deliverables produced and the milestones achieved during the previous 12-month period. The Scientific Board is invited to attend part of the meeting and present a report on the “State of the Network”, containing a self-assessment of the Network activities and the perceived or potential problems. The results of the Advisory Board review will be given in a written report.

Present Board Members

• Serge Abiteboul
  Senior researcher at INRIA; Director of project GEMO; Professor, Master in Research in Informatics, University Paris Sud, France

• Edward A. Fox
  Chairman, IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; Director of DLRL - Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech; Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, USA

• Steve Griffin
  Program Director, Digital Library activities, NSF Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Directorate, Arlington, USA. 

• John Mylopoulos
  CSCSI Fellow; Trustee Emeritus of VLDB Endowment; Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada; Visiting Professor, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Trento, Italy.

• Keith Van Rijsbergen
  ACM Fellow; Professor and leader of the Information Retrieval Group, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK.