Jiri is a member of LIBER’s FIM4L Working Group, and has been involved in federated authentication in libraries for more than 14 years. From 1995 until June 2019 he worked at Charles University as system engineer handling federated authentication at library services. Jiri was hired by the Moravian Library to work at Project AARC for…
Raoul is Productmanager Trust & Identity at SURF.NL and a member of LIBER’s FIM4L Working Group. After working in IT for the Department of Defense, doing jobs at multi nationals like Philips and Akzo at Atos, and having several roles in IT, Raoul was hired by SURF while working as an independent contractor. As he…
Jos Westerbeke chairs LIBER’s FIM4L Working Group. He is an expert on authentication, federated Single Sign-On, identity and access management. He has a technical IT background and works as an IT demand and information manager at the Erasmus University Library. He is also involved in Research Data Management projects. He has acquired in-depth knowledge of…
Peter is a member of LIBER’s FIM4L Working Group. With a background in Indology and Digital Humanities, Peter evolved as expert in directory technologies and Federated Identity Management: the major subject spaces of his company, he co-founded in 2000, which is also very active in research projects on research infrastructures and AAI. Peter had also…
Sarah Ames is Digital Scholarship Librarian at the National Library of Scotland, with responsibility for the Digital Scholarship Service. As well as being a core member of LIBER’s Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group, she is a member of the RLUK Digital Scholarship Network and the Alan Turing Institute Humanities and Data Science…
Paul Johnson is an Associate Director at the University of Reading Library, where he has responsibility for strategic leadership across the areas of Collections, Planning and Research. He is particularly interested in the alignment of scholarly communications and collections services as we make the transition towards Open Access. Within the UK he has been a…
Dirk van Gorp is Open Science Manager at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and a member of LIBER’s Citizen Science Working Group. At Radboud University, the Open Science team focuses on supporting researchers in the areas of data management, open access, copyright, alt metrics, etc. Aside from local initiatives (including setting up a University Press),…
Dóra Gaálné Kalydy is the deputy director general of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, and a member of LIBER’s Citizen Science Working Group. She is responsible for the daily works of the library, renewing of the traditional library services. She is also involved in the international relations…
Simon Worthington is a researcher in future publishing — free and open source systems, economic models, and the politics of Open Science. He is active in LIBER’s Citizen Science Working Group. He authored The Book Liberation Manifesto supporting the FOSS community to make research available to all through platform independent, interoperable publications. Simon is also Editor-in-Chief…
Anne Kathrine Overgaard has worked at the University of Southern Denmark since 1998: working with management, strategic development, corporate communication, engagement, SDGs, and as project manager especially on transdisciplinary projects. She has — together with Thomas Kaarsted, also a member of LIBER’s Citizen Science Working Group — co-founded the Citizen Science Network at the university.…
Mitja V. Iskrić works at the Central Technical Library of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and is a member of LIBER’s Citizen Science Working Group. He is involved in the library in many ways: with open science projects, the analysis of e-sources, managing of repositories and dealing with copyright issues. He participates in the…
Dominic Tate is the Head of Library Research Support at Edinburgh University Library and a member of LIBER’s Citizen Science Working Group. Together with his teams, Dominic provides help and support for staff and students in all matters relating to scholarly communications and research publication (including open access, bibliometrics and copyright), research data management, and…