Michelle has extensive expertise in open science, research software, digital workforce capability and digital research infrastructure. As a sociologist, Michelle is passionate about building collaborative partnerships to achieve system change.
Michelle is currently Director of the Research Software Alliance (ReSA). She is Co-chair of the RDA Organisational Advisory Board and rchaired the OECD Global Science Forum expert group on digital skills for the research sector from 2018-2020.
Michelle is a former Director of the Australian Research Data Commons, where she led the strategic planning for the Australian government’s $180 million, five-year investment in ARDC, the national research software infrastructure investment program, and developed a national strategy to enhance digital workforce capacity in the research sector.
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...
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 ...
This is the subgroup of the RDA-COVID-19 working group focusing on Software.
Co-chair assigned: Ingrid Dillo
Moderator(s): Michelle Barker, Fotis Psomopoulos, Hugh Shanahan
Email: rda-covid19...
FAIR research software skills and training curriculums need to be identified and incorporated into broader efforts to facilitate increased support and recognition for the qualified personnel needed t...
Curating for FAIR and Reproducible Research
This workgroup has concluded and is now a “historical group”. See below for details on lodging issues with the maintainers of the recommendation...
The evolution of the evaluation of research from being mostly bibliographic index-based is now recognized to be indispensable to enable Open Science. In the same way that Open Science promotes the ope...
FAIR Data Maturity Model: core criteria to assess the implementation level of the FAIR data principles
Webinar – The RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG: Aligning International Initiatives for Promo...
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The Global Open Research Commons (GORC) International Model WG worked under the umbrella of the GORC IG. The GORC IM WG is concluded, with work continuing in the GORC International Implementations WG ...
