Curators’ Corner

Wendy is the Data Curation Specialist at Cornell University’s John M. Olin Library and Research Data Management Services Group Coordinator. She also serves as the representative for Cornell on the DCN Governance Board. Wendy was interviewed by Adi Ranganath in October 2021. How did you come to your current position? I had a research associate…

Adi is a Data librarian in the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS) at University of Colorado – Boulder (CU) Libraries. He was interviewed by Dorris Scott in September 2021. How did you come to your current position? I came to my current position from New York University (NYU) Libraries, where I was…

Dorris is a GIS Librarian and Social Science Data Curator for the Washington University Library. She was interviewed by Xuying Xin in August, 2021. How did you come to your current position? I came to this position because during the last semester of my PhD studies at University of Georgia, I worked at the Map…

Xuying is a Data Analyst for the Penn State University Libraries. She was interviewed by Melinda Kernik in July, 2021. How did you come to your current position? Before joining the Penn State University Libraries at University Park, I was a research associate in a biomedical lab at another campus of Penn State. While at…

Melinda Kernik is the Spatial Data Analyst and Curator for the University of Minnesota Libraries and U-spatial. She was interviewed by Susan Braxton in June, 2021. How did you come to your current position? I was a graduate student at University of Minnesota in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society. In my first year,…

This post is part of our Curators Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Curator. The series grew out of a community-building activity wherein curators at our ten partner organizations interview each other “chain-letter style” in order to get to know each other and their work outside of the DCN better. We…

Jon Petters is Assistant Director of Data Management and Curation Services at Virginia Tech. He was interviewed by Marley Kalt in July 2020. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been working at Virginia Tech for four years now. My wife got a professor position in Blacksburg, and I was lucky enough to…

Marley Kalt is a Data Management Consultant at Johns Hopkins University. She was interviewed by Andrew Battista in July 2020. How did you come to your current position? I recently completed a Master’s in Information Science. Before graduate school I knew I wanted to go into academic librarianship, and through digital curation coursework and extracurricular…

Andrew Battista is the Librarian for Geospatial Information Systems at New York University. He was interviewed by Jen Darragh in May 2020. How did you come to your current position? I completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and took a library job as an Information Literacy and Reference Librarian at a small liberal arts school….