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Claire Sewell

Research Support Librarian

School of Physical Sciences

Areas Of Expertise:

Data management, Copyright, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Research data ethics, Data storage, Data sharing, Open data, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications, Video editing

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Biography

I’m the Research Support Librarian for the Physical Sciences at the University of Cambridge where I oversee training and support for the research community across a range of disciplines. I’ve worked in research support for seven years and have recently published my first book - “The No-Nonsense Guide to Research Support and Scholarly Communication” (Facet Publishing).

Additional areas of expertise:

RDM for librarians, presentation skills.

Concetta La Spada

Senior Library Data Analyst

Cambridge University Press

Areas Of Expertise:

File sharing systems, Discipline-specific repositories, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Data storage, Data sharing, Data archiving, Open data

Contact Information

claspada@cambridge.org

@ConcettaLaSpada

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Biography

A native of Messina in Italy, Concetta completed her BA in Conservation of Cultural Heritage in 2007 at the University of Messina. During her university years she worked in various libraries and cultural institutions in Italy. She completed her MA in Archival and Library Science at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ in 2009. In 2011 she moved to the UK where she worked as a Cataloguer for Blackwell, Baker & Taylor and YBP/EBSCO, acquiring great experience in cataloguing books and ebooks. In September 2015 she moved to Cambridge University Press where, as Senior Library Data Analyst, she uses her knowledge of cataloguing and metadata to improve the quality of the metadata supplied to customers and third parties. From 2017 she is the Cambridge University Press representative on the Metadata2020 project and from 2019 Social Media Manager for the CILIP – CIG Cataloguing and Indexing Group.

Additional areas of expertise:

Bibliographic databases, catalogues and repositories.

Creation and manipulation of metadata using tools like MarcEdit, Bibliofile, Classificationweb, WebDewey.

Library platforms such as WorldCat, Alma, Primo.

Mandy Wigdorowitz, PhD

Open Research Community Manager

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Git, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Experimental design, Copyright, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, General repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, FAIR Data, Data archiving, Data preservation, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Audiovisual data, Workshop delivery, Social media & digital communications

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Mandy Wigdorowitz is Open Research Community Manager for Cambridge University Libraries. She holds a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, St John's College, and is a registered Research Psychologist with a Masters in Social and Psychological Research from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is interested in the benefits of open research practices across all research disciplines and is building a community that promotes open research at Cambridge. Her research focuses on understanding language and interaction from linguistic, social, cognitive, and psychological perspectives. Mandy is also the Associate Editor for the Journal of Open Humanities Data, which publishes data papers in disciplines spanning the Humanities.

Sacha Jones, PhD – Data Champion Programme Supervisor

Research Data Manager

Office of Scholarly Communication

Areas Of Expertise:

Research data management, Data Management Plans, Licensing, Sensitive data, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Apollo (Cambridge University repository), Data sharing, Open data, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Database design, Workshop delivery, Digital illustration

Contact Information

scj23@cam.ac.uk

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0000-0003-0492-2662

Biography

I joined the Office of Scholarly Communication in November 2018 as Research Data Coordinator for the Research Data Management Facility. I manage the Data Champion Programme as part of my role. I have a PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from 2009–2017, specialising in human evolution and Palaeolithic archaeology.

Additional areas of expertise:

Archaeology data

Claire Sewell

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Concetta La Spada

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Mandy Wigdorowitz, PhD

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Sacha Jones, PhD – Data Champion Programme Supervisor

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