Tomás Baiget
Professional Information Journal (EPI)

Founder and editor Professional Information Journal (EPI). Teacher of the Master Online of Digital Documentation of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Tomás Baiget is a creative and participate in many successful initiatives in the field of information professional: EXIT Directory; Think Tank on Library and Documentation; Yearbook ThinkEPI; System Author Names Authorities IraLIS, and others. He is currently Spain Editor of the repository EPrints in Library and Information Science (E-LIS).

Peter Ballantyne
International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD)

President of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD). In the past 3 years as director of Euforic working in a cooperative information exchange for an opening and better access to information and knowledge on international development in Europe. Euforic addition, works as an independent specialist in agricultural information in the CGIAR ICT-KM program and several CGIAR centers, FAO, GFAR, among others.

Stephen Rudgard
World Agricultural Information Center (WAICENT)

Head of World Agricultural Information Center (WAICENT) - Capacity Development and Extension Services at the FAO, in its World Headquarters located in Rome, Italy. It leads to a global team that works on a wide range of programs that aim to strengthen institutional capacities in developing countries to manage information; also facilitate international alliances in information / knowledge for agricultural development.

Abel Packer
Director of BIREME / PAHO / WHO
Brazil

Information professional, has participated in the development and management of most BIREME projects such as the Health Information Center Latin America and the Caribbean (cooperative network with more than 900 information centers), the LILACS database (which indexes the literature on health sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean), the CD-ROM LILACS (launched in 1987, which allowed wide dissemination of scientific literature for the first time in the region), the SciELO project - The Library Science Online (launched in 1997), and the Virtual Library on Health (the regional platform for technical cooperation in scientific and technological information in health promoted by BIREME).

Jean Claude Guedon
Advisor to the Open Access Publishing in European Networks
France

Researchers participating in various international academic initiatives. It is a founding member of the Internet Society and the first Canadian electronic Journal. Between 2006 and 2008, was Vice President of the Canadian Society for the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2009 he joined the Advisory Board of the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN). Join the Advisory Board of the IFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) and is also an active member of the Open Humanities Press, a publishing Open Access international collective specializing in critical and cultural theory.

Michael Nelson
Teaching the Computer Science Department. Old Dominion University
United States

Specialist in implementing digital libraries, information exchange protocols, digital preservation, web architecture, among other topics. He worked at NASA Langley Research Center, where he developed the "NASA Technical Report Server." One of the most important s developed by Nelson and his study group is the implementation of OAI-OMH, which is one of the means for exchanging information between different information systems of heterogeneous information.