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.
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Chair(s): Kheeran Dharmawardena, Kristal Spreadborough
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
Extensive work has been, and continues to be done on data interoperability at the technical and information domains. However, a large portion of the challenges in building interoperable information in...
Working Group
Stage: Not Yet Endorsed
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Anupama Gururaj
AI agents are moving quickly from prototype to production, but the organizations holding sensitive and restricted research data have no shared way to decide whether they are ready to deploy them. Agen...
Historical Group
Webinar – Connecting Data, Institutions and People: FAIR Digital Objects, RDA outputs and the design of the DiSSCo Research Infrastructure – 18 March 2021
The DFT WG task is to describe...
Historical Group
Data Rescue IG
Member
Stage: Completed
14 August 2019 – A new IG is carrying forward the work of the Data Rescue IG with an expanded scope (all data, digital and analog), and with refined topics (questions in support of conservation ...
Historical Group
Stage: Completed
Chair(s): Michelle Barker, Jeremy Cohen, Daniel S. Katz, Kim Martin, Dan Rudmann, Pedro Hernandez Serrano, Hugh Shanahan
The Research Software Alliance will take ongoing responsibility for ensuring the recommendation is updated as necessary.
The Policies in Research Organisations for Research Software (PRO4RS) Working ...
Historical Group
Stage: Completed
Secretariat Liaison: Secretariat Group Account
The SHARC Interest Group is no longer active. Many really important and valuable discussions and outputs have taken place over its lifetime and you are invited to view the outputs here.
Short prese...