Ashley E. Sands
Ashley Sands is the manager of the Digital Scholarship and Data Services division at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Libraries.
Previously, Ashley was a Senior Library Program Officer in the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in which she managed a portfolio of grants and funding opportunities related to scholarly communications, research data management, digital infrastructures, open science, and more.
Ashley earned her MLIS and PhD from UCLA. Her dissertation examines astronomy data management practices to reveal the expertise and infrastructure most appropriate for maximizing the utility of scientific data. Research methods include semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document analysis.
Maintenance Group
Stage: Completed
Chair(s): Francis P. Crawley, Perihan Elif Ekmekci, Natalie Meyers, Seonyoung Kim, Patricia Buendia, Ugochi Okengwu, Luis Jacob Retanan
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Anupama Gururaj
Mission The mission of the AIDV-WG is to contribute to building the ethical, legal, social, and technical frameworks for Artificial Intelligence while examining the potential of data visitation to bri...
Interest Group
Collections as Data IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
About
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...
Working Group
Common Application Programming Interface (API) for machine-actionable Data Management Plans (maDMPs)
Member
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Chair(s): Tomasz Miksa, Marek Suchánek, Becky Grady, Marie-Christine Jacquemot-Perbal, Diamantis Tziotzios, Peter Neish, Diana Sisu
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Romain DAVID
This group will develop a standardized Application Programming Interface (API) for machine-actionable Data Management Plans (maDMPs). This API will provide a unified approach to accessing and managing...
Interest Group
Data Discovery Paradigms IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Anupama Gururaj
RDA Interest Group Charter
Name of Interest Group: Data Discovery Paradigms IG
Introduction:
The F.A.I.R. Principles, i.e. that data should be “Findable, Accessible, Interpretable and Reusable�...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
Developing from demand expressed at the RDAP25 BOF, this interest group will allow RDA members to share lessons learned while adapting, adopting, and piloting the international dataspace protocol and ...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Romain DAVID
The Data Steward Career Tracks WG aims to develop a methodology for creating data steward personas as well as sample set of data steward personas that are linked into a sample career track.
In recent ...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu
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...
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Michelle Barker, Paula Andrea Martinez, Leyla Jael Castro, Daniel S. Katz, Neil Chue Hong, Jennifer Harrow, Fotis Psomopoulos, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Morane Gruenpeter
News:
May 24th, 2022. The RDA Council have endorsed the FAIR4RS Principles as an official output!
Citation and download: Chue Hong, N. P., Katz, D. S., Barker, M., Lamprecht, A-L, Martinez, C., Psomop...
Coordination Group
Funders Forum
Member
Chair(s): Matthew Lucas, Dina Paltoo
The RDA Funders Forum, initiated around the launch of RDA in 2013, is a group of funding organisations / representatives with an interest in research data and related data policies. The Funders Forum,...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The coordination of data infrastructure on various levels (country, continent, discipline, sector) is on the increase. So called “Open Science Commons” or “Data commons” provide a shared virtu...