Beth Picknally Camden, Patricia and Bernard Goldstein Director of Information Processing at the Penn Libraries, has been named chair of the Share-VDE Advisory Council, an international group setting direction for the Share-VDE project. Share-VDE is a collaborative endeavor, based on the requirements and perceptions of libraries, promoted by: Casalini Libri, provider of bibliographic and authority data as a member of the Program for Cooperative Cataloguing; @CULT, provider of ILS, discovery tools and semantic web solutions for the cultural heritage sector; with input and active participation from an international group of research libraries and influenced by the vision of the LD4P initiative. The cooperative initiative is steered by the library community and enhanced by R&D activities aimed at identifying additional workflows and use cases according to priorities determined by the Share-VDE network. Share-VDE currently connects the catalogues of libraries in the US and Canada, and is now expanding to a broader network, including European libraries. All partners contribute to the initiative through the Advisory Council and the working groups devoted to the various work streams.