Amy is the Program Head of Data Management Services at MIT. Within the broader research data community, Amy is an active contributor and leader in the global Research Data Alliance (RDA), serving on Council and co-chairing groups, as well as many other regional, national, and global initiatives. Amy developed her information career at Columbia University as the Research Data Manager and started her position as Program Head of Data Management Services at MIT in June 2017, serving as the Interim Department Head for Data and Specialized Services from July 2021 to 4Q2024. Spanning the time from 2016-2022, Amy held the position of Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Learning Analytics program, teaching research data management for education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Amy has a degree in biochemistry and worked in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries for over a decade. A fascination with the human aspects of information and processing combined with her deep experience with organizations and information led Amy to attain an MS in Information Studies from The University of Texas at Austin iSchool in 2012.
The context of increasing volumes of data being created by researchers and the strengthening of requirements for research data management and data sharing has created demand for a new and evolving set...
The evolution of the evaluation of research from being mostly bibliographic index-based is now recognized to be indispensable to enable Open Science. In the same way that Open Science promotes the ope...
Researchers are increasingly encouraged or required to make their research data available for reuse but might often feel there are insufficient incentives for submitting and publishing data, resulting...
The proposed activity of this group is to act as a nucleus for discussing requirements for and identifying developments needed to support active (i.e. able to evolve and be monitored) data management ...
Space for the task force on the Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct (policy document) was published on 22 March 2018.
Suggested task force members:
Amy Nurnberger
Andrew Treloar
Hilary Hanahoe
Ly...
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This group is aimed at collections professionals such as archivists, librarians, records managers and museum curators, as well as related professions such as IT professionals, knowledge scientis...
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The Data Director Agentic AI Blueprint Working Group is a time-bound, eight-week initiative convened by the Research Data Alliance ...
The Data Repository Attributes Working Group seeks to produce a list of common attributes that describe a research data repository and to provide examples of the current approaches that different dat...
Ethical and social issues with respect to data archiving, sharing, and reuse cut across many of the technical and policy work of the rest of the RDA. Such issues are complementary to but separate fr...
FAIR Data Maturity Model: core criteria to assess the implementation level of the FAIR data principles
Webinar – The RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG: Aligning International Initiatives for Promo...
