Collections Trust CEO Elected to Europeana Council
Today the results of the elections to the Europeana Council of Content Providers and Aggregators were announced.
We are pleased to announce that Nick Poole, CEO of Collections Trust was one of six persons elected. Nick was in the most hotly contested section of the election, that for cross domain bodies.
The Council is a new body within the governance of Europeana and represents a voice within it for those who are actually providing the content.
In addition to Nick here are the others who were elected to the council.
- Francisco Barbedo (Portuguese Archives);
- Anne Bergman-Tahon (Federation of European Publishers);
- Kjell Nilsson (National Library of Sweden);
- Henning Scholz (Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity);
- Hans van der Linden (Flemish Government).
The first meeting of the Council will take place later in the year when 3 of its members will be elected on to the governing body of Europeana Foundation. This last is a new change of name from EDL Foundation which reflected the Foundation within European digital libraries.
July 12th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Further to the meeting mentioned above here is an announcement from Europeana:
“The Content Council’s elected officers recently held their first meeting in Frankfurt, Germany. During this fruitful meeting the positions of chair, vice chair and secretary were filled.
We are very pleased to announce that the Content Council will be chaired by Nick Poole from Collections Trust, vice chaired by Anne Bergman-Tahon from the Federation of European Publishers and the secretary is Henning Scholz from the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.
We would like to congratulate them on behalf of the Content Council and are very much looking forward to the development of the Content Council and working together with Nick, Anne and Henning.”
Well done Nick!!