EOSC Future grant: Allyson Lister – Standards, repositories and policies
Summary
As the RDA/EOSC Future Domain Ambassador for standards, repositories and policies, Allyson focused on enriching the relationships among these resources through the development of a FAIRsharing Community Champion Programme. This programme drew upon the collective domain expertise within the RDA and EOSC to build a network of community curators who will “champion” their domain of interest, and who:
- promote these resources across research areas by enriching their descriptions within FAIRsharing;
- gain attribution and a support network;
- provide feedback on training material;
- improve the discoverability of new resources / crosswalks of existing standards developed by RDA groups;
- help EOSC Future’s ESFRI clusters make their data standards more visible within FAIRsharing, and more accessible to EOSC information aggregators; and
- ensure FAIRsharing, a RDA-contributed element of the EOSC ecosystem, continues to meet the needs of its diverse EOSC stakeholders and research communities.
There is clear interest from the community in becoming community champions, and the programme begun under her ambassadorship has matured into an engaged network of members. As an RDA/EOSC Future Domain Ambassador, Allyson formalised this programme for the benefit of the RDA, EOSC and the wider community.
People and organisations
Dr. Allyson Lister completed a BA (1997) in Biology and Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations from Rice University, an MSc (1999) in Computational Biology from the University of York and a PhD (2012) in Computer Science from Newcastle University.
In 1999, she joined the European Bioinformatics Institute as a Software Engineer for UniProtKB, a protein sequence database. In 2006, she joined Newcastle University as a full-time Research Associate while completing her PhD in semantic data integration. Between 2012 and 2014, she also worked for the University of Manchester on various short-term ontology development projects.
Allyson moved to the Oxford e-Research Centre in 2015 where she is currently working on the FAIRsharing project.
Key outputs
- FAIRsharing for you: developers and curators: https://fairsharing.org/educational#developers
- FAIRsharing for you: librarians and trainers: https://fairsharing.org/educational#librarians
- FAIRsharing for you: societies and alliances: https://fairsharing.org/educational#societies
- FAIRsharing for you: journal publishers: https://fairsharing.org/educational#publishers
- FAIRsharing for you: funders: https://fairsharing.org/educational#funders
- FAIRsharing for you: researchers: https://fairsharing.org/educational#researchers
- FAIRsharing content: databases overview: https://fairsharing.org/educational#databases
- FAIRsharing content: standards overview: https://fairsharing.org/educational#standards
- FAIRsharing in a nutshell: https://fairsharing.org/educational#nutshell
More information
- Documentation: https://fairsharing.org/community_champions
- License: https://fairsharing.org/licence
- Contact: allyson.lister@oerc.ox.ac.uk
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