Kevin Ashley, Chair of the Judges
Head of Digital Archives Department, University of London Computer Centre. For the past ten years, Kevin's group has worked on the preservation of digital resources on behalf of other organisations. Kevin represents ULCC on the board of the Digital Preservation Coalition, was a member of the Advisory Council for Erpanet and is part of the RLG-NARA task force seeking to develop an audit and certification mechanism for trusted digital repositories. He speaks frequently on matters related to digital preservation and management of digital content and has contributed to training through the Society of Archivists and the DPC, as well as other organisations.

Michael Day
Research Officer at UKOLN, University of Bath. UKOLN (www.ukoln.ac.uk) is a centre of expertise in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities. Michael joined UKOLN's research and development team in 1996 and has worked on a range of externally funded research projects, mostly related to metadata issues, interoperability and digital preservation. He is currently part of the distributed research team of the Digital Curation Centre (www.dcc.ac.uk), whose overall mission is to achieve continued quality improvement in data curation and digital curation. He is also a participant in the digital preservation research cluster of the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (www.dpc.delos.info).

Helen Hockx-Yu
Helen is a programme manager at the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), responsible for the programme area Digital Preservation. She currently oversees the Digital Preservation and Asset Management Programme (Circular 4/04), the Digital Curation Centre, the UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme and all the digital preservation related projects funded under the Repositories and Preservation Capital Programme. Helen was on the steering committee for the UK Preservation Needs Assessment study and acted as a member of the Digital Preservation and Curation Working Group, formed by a DTI-led steering group in October 2005 to develop strategy and funding requirements for information e-infrastructure and inform the 2007 comprehensive spending review.

William Kilbride
William is Research Manager at Glasgow Museums. As assistant director of the Archaeology Data Service, he was involved in a large number of digital preservation activities. He was on the steering committee for the UK Needs Assessment and tutor to the Digital Preservation Training Programme, and has contributed to numerous workshops, guides and advice papers on the topic. William has recently returned to Glasgow as Research Manager within the Major Projects department of Glasgow Museums. With one of the largest civic museum collections in Europe, Glasgow has recently embarked on major capital projects to transform access to its collections. Digital preservation and access are integral to these projects.

Andreas Rauber
Associate Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (IFS) at the Vienna University of Technology. He is head of the iSpaces research group at the eCommerce Competence. In 2001 he joined the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Pisa as an ERCIM Research Fellow, followed by an ERCIM Research position at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), at Rocquencourt, France, in 2002. Professor Rauber serves on the board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL), and is actively involved in several research projects in the field of Digital Libraries, focusing on the organization and exploration of large information spaces, as well as Web archiving and digital preservation.

Chris Rusbridge
Director of the Digital Curation Centre, whose overall mission is continuing quality improvement in data curation & digital preservation. Chris was previously Director of the Information Services at the University of Glasgow, active in the area of digital preservation, and before that he was Programme Director of the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme, where he was closely involved in many digital preservation activities including the CEDARS and CAMiLEON projects.

Helen Shenton
Helen became the first Head of Collection Care at the British Library in 2002, with increasing responsibility for digital preservation alongside conservation and collection storage and security. She is a founding Board member of the DPC and chairs the the NPO's Preservation Administrators' Panel. She sits on a number of national and international groups, including IFLA’s Preservation and Conservation Committee and the Academic Advisory Committee of the Centre for Sustainable Heritage at UCL. Helen has taught and examined Master's degree courses in Conservation and Preservation, and has lectured and published widely in areas such as national preservation strategies, life-cycle collection management and digital preservation.

Dave Thompson
Dave is the Digital Curator, Wellcome Library. Dave has worked in libraries in both the UK and in New Zealand. Before coming to the Wellcome Library he worked for the National Library of New Zealand on national digital preservation strategies. He is now working on bringing born-digital archival materials into the Wellcome Library. He also leads the Library’s contribution to the UK Web Archiving Consortium, archiving web-based material. As well as practical archiving, this also involves developing strategies for the preservation of web-based materials and the development of the tools for web archiving.