Sandra Collins, Edit Herczog, Kay Raseroka were approved for a three-year term of service with 79 people accepting the slate and 3 people rejecting the slate.
The Governance Documents of RDA and the RDA Foundation describe the duties of Council members who serve three-year (renewable) terms, with three members selected each year.
A Nomination Committee determined by the current Council develops a slate of three candidates each year who are approved by a general election of the membership.
The full report of the 2017 Nomination Committee describes their methodology and the qualifications of the new Council members.
Contact:
Mark A. Parsons
0000-0002-7723-0950
Secretary General, Research Data Alliance
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://rd-alliance.org, http://idea.rpi.edu
mail: 1550 Linden Ave., Boulder CO 80304, USA
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