Governance · Founding board 2026
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.
Confirmed members
Confirmed members of the founding board. Each bio links to the member's canonical profile on their own organisation's site — the same cross-site entity link we recommend adopters publish.
Founding board member — adopter & industry seat
Founder & CEO, LAC Healthcare Solutions
Brings the standards-adopter and industry perspective to the board: a healthcare procurement and supply-chain operator whose company applies the CRediT taxonomy and CASRAI-style DefinedTermSet markup to its own clinical reference content — the implementation we cite as a worked example of CRediT adoption outside scholarly publishing.
Founding seats
Each seat targets a perspective the board needs to function. Bios will appear here as positions are confirmed.
Chair
Being recruited
Standards-body governance, federation
Vice-chair
Being recruited
Editorial process, working-group oversight
Secretary
Being recruited
Records, notice, release minutes
CRIS practitioner
Being recruited
CRIS / repository perspective
Library standards
Being recruited
Library + IFLA standards perspective
Publisher / NISO liaison
Being recruited
CRediT stewardship continuity
Researcher representative
Being recruited
Working-author perspective
Board mechanics
7 seats. Term-limited (3 years, renewable once). Light workload.
Quarterly online meeting. Async sign-off on each release.
A WG can escalate a contested term proposal to the board. Board adjudicates by simple majority.
Board signs jointly with federation partners (NISO, euroCRIS, CODATA) on stewardship questions.
Board sets the definition pattern, examples policy, relationship vocabulary, translation policy.
Board members disclose all material affiliations. Voting recusal where a member has material interest.
Conflict-of-interest policy
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.
