Rees is a principal scientist at Science Commons’ Neurocommons Project. A computer scientist, he worked in Millennium Pharmaceuticals’ computational biology group before joining Science Commons. At the company his work focused on large-scale curated protein interaction networks.

Wilbanks is the executive director of the Science Commons project at Creative Commons. Before taking on this role, he founded a bioinformatics company that developed semantic graph networks that could be used in the research and development of pharmacological products. Earlier Wilbanks worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Barbour has been the chief editor of PLoS Medicine – a journal of the Public Library of Science – since 2008. She came to PLoS in 2004 from a career in publishing at The Lancet where she had worked for about five years before joining PLoS.

Gardner is a professor of physiology and biophysics and a professor of neuroscience at Cornell University’s Weill Medical College. His recent work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research and by the Human Brain Project/Neuroinformatics.

Gibbons is Vice Provost and Dean of the River Campus Libraries at the Univ. of Rochester in Rochester, New York. In 2007 The Chronicle of Higher Education praised Gibbons for her pioneering work in the field of library administration.

Hakan Olsson is a professor and specialist in forestry remote sensing at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, which is the nation’s main center of research in forestry. He has initiated a large number of research projects evaluating remote sensing data.

Jean Bernard Minster is a University of California-San Diego distinguished professor of geophysics and chair of the International Council for Science’s World Data System Scientific Committee (ICSU WDSSC). He has been involved with data issues for over two decades, through the National Research Council.

Mark Parsons is a manager at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His specialties include data management processes, interdisciplinary data management; metadata and long-term data stewardship.
In his role at the NSIDC, his duties include serving as program manager for the International Polar Year Data Management, the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge [...]