people and standards
Data Futures (
01653xx13) is a non-profit and leading provider, to major institutions in Europe and the U.S., and to the U.N., of resilient infrastructure for long-term accessibility to research data, through colocation with French and Swiss national infrastructures. Data Futures is an originating member of the IIIF and InvenioRDM international consortia and the principal developer of Web Annotation Data Model (WADM) infrastructure for Open Repositories.
It's board members are:
- Peter Cornwell is Research Fellow at ENS-Lyon and at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, Westminster, and Professor of Research Practice, SOAS University of London. Cornwell is PI for the Dallapiccola Foundation's South Indian Paintings grant, and was recently co-PI on Arcadia Fund's Zenodo WADM project and SNSF's Divisive Power of Citizenship program at the Institute for European Global Studies, Basel. https://iao.cnrs.fr/laboratoire/membres/chercheurs-et-ita/peter-cornwell/
- Neil Jefferies is Executive Director of the Open Preservation Foundation and Head of Innovation, Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services, University of Oxford. He is course leader of Oxford University's MA in Digital Scholarship and a key originator of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). https://openpreservation.org/about/meet-our-team/
- Tom Lamberty is a Senior Research Fellow at Cisco, Inc. and publisher of Merve Verlag GmbH. Merve has won the German Publishers Prize for two years since 2020. https://gblogs.cisco.com/at/author/tolamber/
- Andreas Witt is Professor of Computational Humanities & Text Technology at Universität Mannheim and Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS-Mannheim). https://www.phil.uni-mannheim.de/en/leibniz-institute-for-the-german-language/team/prof-dr-andreas-witt/