Mariella Guercio is a full professor in archival science and ERM at the University of Urbino since 2000. She cooperates with the State Authority for information technology to define the Italian legislation for ERMS. Co-director of the European project ERPANET and partner for the DELOS digital preservation WP, she is partner for the European project CASPAR on digital preservation (2006-2009), member of the European working group for defining a master profile for digital curation and director of the team Italy of the InterPARES project. Since 2002, she is the director of the journal Archivi & Computer. She has chaired masters in archival sectors for the University and for Italian Scuola superiore della pubblica amministrazione where now she is responsible of all the education and advanced training programmes for digital curation. She published many articles, a manual on archival science (as co-author with Paola Carucci) and a manual on electronic records.

Andreas Rauber is Associate Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ifs) at the Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien). He furthermore is president of AARIT, the Austrian Association for Research in IT and a Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow. He received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he joined the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Pisa as an ERCIM Research Fellow, followed by an ERCIM Research position at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), at Rocquencourt, France, in 2002. From 2004-2008 he was also head of the iSpaces research group at the eCommerce Competence Center (ec3). In 1998 he received the ÖGAI Award of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI), and the Cor-Baayen Award of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) in 2002. He has published numerous papers in refereed journals and international conferences and served as PC member and reviewer for several major journals, conferences and workshops. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI) and serves on the board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL).

Tore Hoel is a Norwegian expert to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 and co-editor of the MLR Part 5 Educational. He has been working on standards for learning technologies since 2003, and is now the Vice Chair of the European Committee for Standardization Workshop on Learning Technologies. Hoel is currently work package co-leader for dissemination & roadmapping in the European ICOPER project, as well as doing research for a PhD on standards governance and the use of tools to improve the standardisation process.

Sarah Currier is a librarian who has been involved in research, development and delivery related to metadata, repositories and content in e-learning for the past 10 years. Her experience spans involvement in standards bodies (she is currently Co-Moderator of the Dublin Core Education Community); national-level support for initiatives in UK higher education (via several roles within JISC CETIS); R&D projects (including the seminal SeSDL repository, the Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories Project, and, in an advisory capacity, the Jorum national learning materials repository); development and management of strategic repository services (most notably the IRISS Learning Exchange in Scotland); and two years in a key role in customer support and product management with the UK’s leading learning materials repository software supplier, Intrallect Ltd.  In 2004 Sarah published some of the earliest research into metadata quality for e-learning, and is now a freelance consultant with her own company, Sarah Currier Consultancy.  She is most excited by one of her current projects (SHEEN Sharing, with the Scottish Funding Council and Higher Education Academy), looking at the use of free Web 2.0 tools to create a virtual repository for a small community of practice involved in promoting employability in Scottish HE.

Johanna Puhl is since 07/2008 project-manager at the University of Cologne for the PLANETS-project, participance in the Work-packages Testbed and Preservation Characterisiation (Development of the XCL-Ontology and collection of the test-corpus for the Testbed-Service). 2008 Master's degree: Magister Artium; MA thesis on: Evaluation of digital Watermarks for the authenticity of photographs. 10/2001 - 07/2008 Study of Humanities Computer Science (HKI), Sociology and theater-/ film- studies at the University of Cologne. Work Experience: 1998 - 2001: Apprenticeship as mediadesigner for print-products.10/2001 - 07/2008: Student Assistant in different companies and freelancer mediadesigner.

Tomaz Erjavec is a research associate at the Dept. for Knowledge Technologies and the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia. He has been working in the field of language technologies for over two decades, and was involved in a number of projects to standardise the encoding of language resources such as corpora, computational lexica and digital editions. He was a member of the Text Encoding Initiative Council and of several Working Groups of ISO TC 37 “Terminology and other language and content resources”.

Andrea Rapp has been the head of the Goettingen Digitization Center at the State and University Library in Goettingen and is now executive director of the Competence Center for Digital Humanities at Trier University. She has been working in the field of digitization, digital editions, electronic dictionaries, and digital humanities in general for over 15 years. She is in charge of several DFG and BMBF-funded projects and is one of the initiators of the TextGrid project.

Thomas Burch worked as freelancer at the Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag GmbH and the Haufe Verlagsgruppe in Freiburg. 1998 he was one of the founders of the Competence Center for Digital Humanities at Trier University and is one of the executive directors. He is in charge of several DFG -funded projects and is one of the initiators of the FuD project.

Walter Koch was born on the 16th of February 1947 in Graz. He received a PhD in Mathematics and Physics from University of Graz in 1970. He is director for AIT Ltd. (Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH) and is an ao.Univ.-Professor at the University of Graz and a Guest Professor at the University of Krems. Furthermore he is chairperson of the CSC Europe EEIG and head of the Steinbeis Transferzentrum (IMCHI – Information Management and Cultural Heritage Informatics).
Prof. Koch's relevant experience includes: Head of different research institutes at Joanneum Research Ltd. in Graz (1976-19998); Consultant and contractor to different national and international organizations (eg UNESCO, DFG,EC, ESA, Austrian ministries, Graz municipality) ; Member of several national and international scientific associations (eg. ICOM, ONORM, VÖB).

Monika Hagedorn-Saupe studied education, sociology, psychology - with an emphasis on adult education - and mathematics at the Ruhr Universität Bochum, the Kings College London and the Freie Universität Berlin and was appointed honorary professor at the HTW Berlin in 2006.
Since 1985, she has been a staff member at the Institute for Museum Research at the State Museums of Berlin, Prussian Heritage, leading the department "Besucherbezogene Museumsforschung und Kulturstatistik" since July 1994 and acting as the deputy direcot of the institute since October 1994. Spokesperson of the professional group on Documentation of the German Museums Association; Secretary of ICOM CIDOC (International Council of Museums - Comité internationale pour la documentation).