CoreTrustSeal is governed by the Standards and Certification Board elected by members of the Assembly of Reviewers. The Board is responsible for the development and maintenance of the CoreTrustSeal certification criteria and processes, and for the final approval of certifications. The Board is committed to ensuring community engagement and inclusion, transparency of processes, and the availability of a certification open to any appropriate data repository.

CoreTrustSeal Board 2024 – 2027

The 2024 annual CoreTrustSeal Board Statutory meeting took place on 5 November 2024.

Directors

  1. Chair—Olivier Rouchon (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
  2. Vice-chair—Maja Dolinar (Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (ADP), Slovenia)
  3. Secretary—Alina Danciu (Centre de données socio-politiques — CDSP, Sciences Po, France)
  4. Treasurer—Maaike Verburg (Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), The Netherlands)

Members

  1. Andrea Lammert (German Climate Computing Center – DKRZ, Germany)
  2. Aude Chambodut (International Service of Geomagnetic Indices, France )
  3. Debbie Roth (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA)
  4. Guoqing Li (National Earth Observation Data Center, Aerospace Information Research Institute, China)
  5. Jared Lyle (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, USA)
  6. Marjan Hartsuiker (Regionaal Archief Zutphen, The Netherlands)
  7. Peter McGarvey (Georgetown University Medical Center, USA)
  8. Tuomas J. Alaterä (Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD), Finland)

Ex officio

  • Lisa de Leeuw (CoreTrustSeal Foundation)
  • Lindsay Callaghan (South African Environmental Observation Network, South Africa)
  • Ollie Parkes (UK Data Service, UK)

Find information about previous CoreTrustSeal Boards here.