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.
Status: Recognised & Endorsed
The development of advanced materials inherently rests on access to a distributed materials infrastructure and materials research data to fuel discovery and innovatio...
Communication Plans
2015 RDA/US
Plenary 5
Presentations
08/15 – The Research Data Alliance: Building Community and Infrastructure for Data Sharing World-wide
06/15 – RDA/US Leadersh...
This is a restricted access space for documents and records of the RDA/US Advisory Committee, which consists of RDA Working and Interest Group chairs, OAB Members of US and US Members of TAB, Council,...
Status: Recognised & Endorsed Joint RDA/WDS IG
In order to guarantee data sharing, the long-term preservation of these data in sustainable digital repositories is a sine qua non. Data that are cr...
I. RDA COVID-19 Working Group Objectives
II. Group & Website Navigation
III. Weekly Webinar RDA COVID-19 Updates – Completed
I. RDA COVID-19 Working Group Objectives
The overarchi...
Many natural data sets are not confined by political borders. The RDA in the Americas Group will foster collaboration between research organizations and individuals on the American continents. This w...
This is the working space for the Organisational Assembly and includes all open OA meetings.
Organisational Membership
If you know of an organisation that is interested in joining the RDA as an Organi...
The goal of a discipline-agnostic, standardized reproducibility assessment checklist is to promote scientific integrity by providing a practical framework for researchers, scientists and organizations...
Context and purpose
Research data repositories are at the heart of data sharing as they provide platforms to acquire, store, archive, publish, curate, preserve, and access data. Thus, the major goal o...
Overview
This interest group seeks to advance and enable reproducibility in research based on or producing datasets that require code. Our goals are to build bridges with the many RDA external efforts...
