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.
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Chair(s): CJ Woodford, Andrew Treloar, Javier Lopez Albacete, Mikiko Tanifuji, Lautaro Matas, Lars Eklund
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The Global Open Research Commons International Implementations Working Group (GORC II WG) will maintain the recommendation and supporting outputs from the GORC International Model WG (GORC IM WG), spe...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Su Nee Goh, Naresh Kumar, Tim Dennis, Jennifer Gu, Susanna Nykyri, Madiareni Sulaiman, John Brown
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
Endorsed Outputs
23 Things: Libraries For Research Data – overview of practical, free, online resources and tools that you can begin using today to incorporate research data management into y...
Interest Group
PID IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
The pervasive use of persistent identifiers is seen as a foundational element in anchoring and referencing research data in an interoperable way. The purpose of the Persistent Identifier Interest Grou...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: James Savage
This is the webpage of the RDA Interest Group on professionalising data stewardship.
The idea to create an interest group was raised in a BoF session during the 14th Plenary (Helsinki), and a first i...
Regional Group
RDA in the Americas
Member
Coordinators: Rebecca Koskela, Gabriela Pino
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...
Regional Group
RDA in the United States
Member
Coordinators: Beth Plale, Rob Quick
This is a working area dedicated to RDA-US activities, updates, and events in the United States. If you would like to contribute to the group or receive RDA-US updates, please register by clicking on...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
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...
Interest Group
Reproducibility IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali
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...
Interest Group
Research Data Policy IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira
Introduction
Research data policies aim to increase the availability of research data and in some cases, FAIR research data. The number of organisations with data policies – and number of researcher...
Interest Group
Research Funders and Stakeholders on Open Research and Data Management Policies and Practices IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: James Savage
Description