David Giaretta – United Kingdom

David Giaretta is a chairman at Repository Audit and Certification Working Group of CCSDS in Oxford. For more than five years he worked as a director of PARSE.Insight project and CASPAR project which are concerned with digital preservation. He studied theoretical physics at the University of Oxford.
Dr Giaretta has had extensive experience in planning, developing and running scientific archives and providing and managing a variety of services to large numbers of users. In 2003 he was awarded an MBE for services to Space Science. As chair of CCSDS Panel 2 he made fundamental contributions to the OAIS Reference Model (ISO 14721) He leads the work which aims at producing an ISO standard for audit and certification of digital repositories, following on from the work of the RLG/OCLC/NARA working group of which he was a member.(source: www.wepreserve.eu)