The re3data Editorial Board is pleased to welcome seven new members:

• Dalal Hakim Rahme, Coordinator of Content Curation, United Nations
• Rene Faustino Gabriel Junior, Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grando do Sul
• Sandra Gisela Martín, Library Director, Universidad Católica de Córdoba
• Tekleweyni Geday, Lecturer, Mekelle University
• Theodora Bloom, Executive Editor, BMJ
• Vaidas Morkevičius, Professor, Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology
• Ziyi (Neko) He, Researcher, China National GeneBank

The purpose of the editorial board is to advance re3data’s mission by providing stewardship and curating registry records; identifying and cataloging new data repositories; establishing and maintaining editorial strategies and policies, and promoting the registry across disciplines and geographies.

The editorial board will be meeting in a few weeks at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to discuss issues related to repository typologies, artificial intelligence, domain repositories, trusted research environments, and potential updates to the Metadata Schema for the Description of Research Data Repositories in consideration and implementation of the RDA Common Descriptive Attributes of Research Data Repositories.