Hello! I’m Amy and I’m thrilled to join the Data Curation Network as the new Special Programs Manager, where I’ll divide my time between community management in the DCN and supporting the RADS Initiative. I’m a professional Dungeons and Dragons Game Master (I’ve been hired to GM birthday parties and teach/facilitate games for local middle…
Matthew Murray🦇 is the Data Librarian at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Matthew was interviewed by Talya Cooper in December 2024. What is your name and your position title? My name is Matthew Murray, and my position is Data Librarian, which I think is like the shortest librarian title they have in the library where I work….
Talya Cooper is the Research Curation Librarian at New York University. Talya was interviewed by Neggin Keshavarizan in October 2024. How did you come to your current position? My first position at NYU was a grant funded position as part of a project called Collaborating on Software Archiving For Institutions. The PI was my now-colleague,…
Neggin Keshavarzian is the Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Neggin was interviewed by Lauren Phegley in October 2024. How did you come to your current position? It was kind of serendipitous. I didn’t know that this was a type of job that someone could have. In my previous position, I was a research…
Lauren Phegley is the Research Data Engineer at the University of Pennsylvania. Lauren was interviewed by Halle Burns in August 2024. How did you come to your current position? I came to the University of Pennsylvania from graduate school. I worked at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in their Research Data Service in the…
This post is a spin-off of our Curators’ Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Advisory or Governance Board member. Get to know the colleagues at the DCN that help keep our operations going! Tim McGeary, Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Technology, Duke University, DCN Advisory Board Chair, was interviewed…
Halle Burns is the Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Halle was interviewed by Alexandra Provo in June 2024. How did you come to your current position? When I was in a library school, I largely took either data management or data science courses – learning how to code, metadata schemas, data cleaning, things…
Alexandra Provo is the Research Curation Librarian at NYU. Alexandra was interviewed by Brandie Pullen in April 2024. How did you come to your current position? I was working in metadata before, and I enjoyed that a lot – the mix of technical work and project work. But I also really enjoyed teaching workshops, and…
Brandie Pullen is the Resident Librarian working in Data Curation at Virginia Tech Library. Brandie was interviewed by Sherry Lake in March 2024. How did you come to your current position? Coming out of college I knew I wanted to work in Libraries, something “behind the scenes.” I started working in metadata and cataloging, doing…
Sherry Lake is the Scholarly Repository Librarian at the University of Virginia. Sherry was interviewed by Madina Grace in February 2024. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been at the University of Virginia (UVa) Library for over 20 years but I’ll start in 2010 when the NSF sharing data letter came out….