Ensuring the Preservation, Accessibility, and Usability of Public Data

Maria Gould

DataCite and ROR

Maria leads DataCite’s Global Community and Services team, where she is responsible for the organization’s product vision and community strategy and coordinates strategic initiatives across the organization and with external partners. As part of her role, she also directs the Research Organization Registry (ROR). Prior to joining DataCite, Maria worked on research infrastructure and scholarly communications at the California Digital Library, the UC Berkeley Library, and PLOS.

Joel Gurin

Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE)

Joel Gurin is the President of the Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to harness the power of open and shared data for the public good. Before launching CODE in 2015, he wrote the book Open Data Now (McGraw-Hill) and led research on open data at the NYU GovLab. He previously served as Chair of the White House Task Force on Smart Disclosure, which studied how open government data can improve consumer markets, and as Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau of the FCC. For more than a decade he was Editorial Director and then Executive Vice President of Consumer Reports, where he directed the launch and development of ConsumerReports.org, which was then the world’s largest paid-subscription information-based website. 

Robert Hanisch

Campostella Research and Consulting

Robert Hanisch recently retired from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD, where he was the director of the Office of Data and Informatics in the Material Measurement Laboratory.  We were responsible for improving data management and sharing practices for all of NIST, developing and operating our public data repository (data.nist.gov).  He also led the development of the NIST Research Data Framework (RDaF), a five-year effort to aggregate community consensus on best practices for research data management, and was an active member of the OSTP/NSTC Subcommittee on Open Science.

Kristi Holmes

Northwestern University

Kristi Holmes is Associate Dean for Knowledge Management and Strategy and Director of the Galter Health Sciences Library and Learning Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She serves as Director of Informatics and Data Science at the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute and Chief of Knowledge Management at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM). Her work centers on advancing discovery and access to knowledge through collaborative initiatives that promote data standards, FAIR principles, and a robust sharing ecosystem. She is particularly focused on measuring the impact of research and developing strategies that accelerate translation and innovation.

Linda Kellam

University of Pennsylvania Libraries & the Data Rescue Project

Lynda Kellam is the Snyder-Granader Director of Research Data & Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and one of the founding organizers of the Data Rescue Project. She is the co-author of Numeric Data Services and Sources for the General Reference Librarian (2011) and co-editor of Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice (2016). She has presented extensively on data services, government data, data management, and the FAIR Guidelines. She is the current Secretary of IASSIST, an international data professional organization. She holds an MLIS, an MA in Political Science, and a PhD in American History.

Christine Kirkpatrick

San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego

Christine Kirkpatrick leads the San Diego Supercomputer Center’s (SDSC) Research Data Services division, which manages large-scale infrastructure, networking, and services. Her research is at the intersection of AI/Machine Learning (ML), with a focus on the intersection of  ML and research data management. Christine served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) and is the Secretary General of the International Science Council's Committee on Data (CODATA). 

Christopher Steven Marcum

Data Foundation and PREreview Advisory Committee

Christopher Steven Marcum is an open-science advocate, sociologist, and science policy wonk. He previously served as Assistant Director for Open Science and Data Policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as Senior Statistician and Senior Scientist at the White House Office of Management and Budget. He brings experience shaping Federal public access policies and Open Government Data Act implementation to this project. 

Mark A. Parsons

Earth Science Information Partners

Mark is the interim Executive Director for the Earth Science Information Partners. He has a long history of researching, developing, and implementing data stewardship policies, practices, and systems. He was the first Secretary General of the Research Data Alliance and has helped coordinate stewardship of a broad range of data from satellite remote sensing to Indigenous knowledge of Arctic change.

Katherine Skinner

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI)