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External Advisory Board (EAB)
We are proud to introduce the External Advisory Board (EAB) for the REEVALUATE project.
With deep expertise in AI, digital heritage, and intellectual property, the EAB provides invaluable guidance to ensure the REEVALUATE vision, global impact, and outreach align with the highest standards, enhancing its relevance and effectiveness in the Cultural Heritage sector.
Members
Eirini Kaldeli holds a PhD from the University of Groningen on the application of Automated Planning methods in the field of Web Services, and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh. Since 2014, she is a researcher at the Intelligent Systems, Content and Interaction laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, from where she has originally graduated with a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In the last years, she has been working on the design of Web services for aggregating, managing, and creatively reusing digital cultural heritage, investigating how AI methods can be applied and assist end-users in this context.
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Johan Oomen is Head of Research and Heritage Services at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and a researcher at the User-Centric Data Science group of the VU University Amsterdam. Throughout his practice, Oomen works on initiatives that focus on providing access to digital heritage. He has a background in information science, media studies and computer science, and his current research focuses on exploring the potential of digital cultural heritage in the wider Cultural and Creative Industries. He is a board member of the Europeana Foundation, the EUscreen Foundation and the PublicSpaces Foundation. Oomen is an advisor to the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Time Machine Organisation and the Dutch National Research Council for Cultural Heritage, and co-chair of The Netherlands Heritage Network. In 2020, he co-founded the NLAIC working group on Culture and Media and the Cultural AI Lab.
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Brigitte Vézina is a fellow at CIGI and the Director of Policy, Open Culture and GLAM at Creative Commons. Brigitte is an expert on international negotiations for the intellectual property (IP) protection of traditional cultural expressions and IP issues around cultural appropriation in the fashion industry. From 2006 to 2016, she worked as a legal officer in the Traditional Knowledge Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, where she dealt with IP issues related to cultural heritage. Her past experience includes work in the Cultural Enterprise and Copyright Section at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris, and with the Montreal-based IP law firm Robic. Brigitte holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Montreal (2002) and a master’s in law from Georgetown University (2005, with distinction). She has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 2003.
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