Seat 1 — Chair
Chair
Being recruited
Standards-body governance, federation
Governance · Founding board 2026
Editorial board
The board sets editorial standards, adjudicates contested entries, and signs off on each release. Members serve 3-year terms (renewable once). The founding 2026 board is being recruited from senior research-administration practitioners, librarians with standards experience, and infrastructure-organisation leadership.
7
Seats
3 yr
Term
Renewable once
4×
Meetings per year
Quarterly, online
Open
COI policy
Published openly
Founding seats
Seven roles, all open
Each seat targets a perspective the board needs to function. Bios will appear here as positions are confirmed.
Open
Seat 2 — Vice-chair
Vice-chair
Being recruited
Editorial process, working-group oversight
Seat 3 — Secretary
Secretary
Being recruited
Records, notice, release minutes
Seat 4 — CRIS practitioner
CRIS practitioner
Being recruited
CRIS / repository perspective
Seat 5 — Library standards
Library standards
Being recruited
Library + IFLA standards perspective
Seat 6 — Publisher / NISO liaison
Publisher / NISO liaison
Being recruited
CRediT stewardship continuity
Seat 7 — Researcher representative
Researcher representative
Being recruited
Working-author perspective
Board mechanics
How decisions are made
Composition
7 seats. Term-limited (3 years, renewable once). Light workload.
Cadence
Quarterly online meeting. Async sign-off on each release.
Working-group escalation
A WG can escalate a contested term proposal to the board. Board adjudicates by simple majority.
Joint statements
Board signs jointly with federation partners (NISO, euroCRIS, CODATA) on stewardship questions.
Editorial standards
Board sets the definition pattern, examples policy, relationship vocabulary, translation policy.
Conflict of interest
Board members disclose all material affiliations. Voting recusal where a member has material interest.
Conflict-of-interest policy
Disclosure + recusal
Board members disclose all material affiliations (employer, funder relationships, vendor relationships). Voting recusal is required when a board member has a material interest in the outcome of a decision — for example, the chair of a working group whose proposal is being adjudicated by the board. The full COI policy will be published as the founding board is convened.
