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.
Of interest to this group’s members and relevant for our collective work, the Open Science Monitoring Principles were released today from the Open Science Monitoring Initiative. During their presentation at UNESCO’s conference on “Open Science: Monitoring Progress, Assessing Impact,” they mentioned interest in accepting comments. Enjoy!
Hi, all, As we collectively prepare for P23 next week please find below two efforts that members of this group may find of interest. Looking forward to meeting with you at the Plenary! NIH Data Sharing Index (S-index) Challenge Promoting data sharing and developing a robust metric to reward exemplary data sharers. This Challenge aims […]
Dear ETHRD-IG Community, We are pleased to invite you to apply for a presentation slot in our upcoming session at the RDA P23 on November 14, 2024 at 10:00 – 11:30 CST / 16:00 – 17:30 UTC (Breakout Session 6) in San José, Costa Rica. The session, “Training RDM? Teaching RDM? What is our future?,” […]
Hi, all, Members of this group may find the following of interest (I did!) The UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library hosted a virtual session “Implementing for Impact: Measuring Open Science for the SDGs” (description below) and the recording is now available at their website: https://www.un.org/en/library/OS —————— “A virtual panel discussion: “Implementing for Impact: Measuring Open Science […]
Hey, RDA friends, You may be interested in participating in the following study being conducted by Ceilyn Boyd on “the procedures data curators perform to recognize … anomalous datasets deposited in research data repositories and transform them into acceptable research datasets.” [apologies for cross-posting] —————————- Do you curate or manage research data in a repository several hours […]
Hey, RDA friends, You may be interested in participating in the following study being conducted by Ceilyn Boyd on “the procedures data curators perform to recognize … anomalous datasets deposited in research data repositories and transform them into acceptable research datasets.” [apologies for cross-posting] —————————- Do you curate or manage research data in a repository several hours […]
Hi, Bridget and Shelley, Francoise has let me know that she will be unavailable to provide an update report at Monday’s meeting, and has asked me to take her place. I am happy to do so, but must leave at half past to catch a train. Is it possible to have the agenda accommodate this? […]
Hi, Bridget and Shelley, Francoise has let me know that she will be unavailable to provide an update report at Monday’s meeting, and has asked me to take her place. I am happy to do so, but must leave at half past to catch a train. Is it possible to have the agenda accommodate this? […]
Collaborative session notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16YAyLpGzkGHPaj9VnXzT4g0I7L0gXdNIJsHm… Preferred notes: https://bit.ly/ETHRDp20 Starting with a review of the last ten years of the ETHRD-IG, its developments and outputs, we would like to shift the focus to andragogy. We invite the community to share their projects and to test new methods on delivering RDM to students and researchers in ways […]
