Metadata Working Group

With a background in information science and information technology, Matthias leads the work on the Australian Research Data Commons PIDs roadmap, has experience in minting and managing identifiers for a range of outputs, and is a member of the ROR curation board.

Wendy manages the institutional repository and is part of the journal publishing team at the University of Iowa Libraries. Her interests include PIDs, shareable metadata and digital preservation, especially of small journals. Previously she cataloged serials and managed eresources, and worked with digital humanities projects.

Jan is a metadata analyst at the British Library. She began her career in Cambridge University Library as a cataloguer and subject librarian, moving to Ireland to work at the University of Limerick which was implementing a new Library system. This led to her new post at a Library automation company as an Implementations analyst liaising between the users and the developers. Jan has an MSc in English and Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, a BSc in Psychology and a Library Diploma from the College of Librarianship in Wales.

Manager of the Open Access repository of the Spanish National Research Council, DIGITAL.CSIC. Previously worked at Stichting EIFL headquarters in Rome, the European Commission Unit of Preservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage (DG INFSO) in Luxembourg, the European Union Delegation to the United States (Political and Academic Affairs Department) in Washington DC, and the University of Seville.

Anusuriya has extensive experience working with various national and international environmental research infrastructures and data initiatives, specializing in information modeling and developing data practices and services to support long-term preservation of and continued access to scientific digital assets such as scientific data, physical samples and instruments.

As repository manager for GFZ Data Services, the geosciences domain repository hosted at GFZ (Potsdam, Germany), one of Kirsten’s aims is to support data discovery via rich metadata. Her data curation expertise include metadata standardization, harmonization and interoperability and the usage of persistent identifiers for data, text and physical samples. She is a member of the IGSN DataCite Partnership Steering Group and IGSN Allocating Agent.

Gretchen Gueguen is a library and information science professional specializing in digital libraries, metadata, and data archives. She currently serves as Member Experience Manager at the Center for Open Science, supporting product development and community engagement for the Open Science Framework. With prior leadership roles at the Digital Public Library of America and extensive experience in academic libraries, she has led large-scale metadata initiatives, taught graduate-level courses, and contributed to professional publications and standards work.

Dr. Ted Habermann (officially known as Ray E. Habermann) spent over 25 years working in scientific data management at NOAA and NASA Data Centers, specializing on metadata creation, management, and standards. He is currently the founder and CEO of Metadata Game Changers, working with communities to understand and improve how they use metadata to share data and knowledge.

Robin is an information manager at the PID competence center at TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library Hannover. Their work is focused on metadata quality and the analysis of metadata flows between scientific infrastructures. Robin is a member of AG Systemlandschaft.

Jia Liu has long been engaged in research on data identification policy, standards and practices, as well as distributed data analysis technologies and systems, since 2009. She is currently the director of the Identification Technology and Application Service Lab, which operates the Common Science and Technology Identification Platform. She is currently leading a national project related to PID. She is a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and an expert member of ISO/TC46/SC9/WG8 (Information and documentation: identification and description; structured vocabularies).

Ian Mathews is the CEO and co-founder of Redivis, a data platform focused on the needs of academic research. He envisions a world where data are widely accessible and believes that well-designed, researcher-focused software will be critical to making this happen. Prior to his work at Redivis, Ian worked with global health researchers and data journalists as he taught himself software development and the tools of interactive data visualization. Ian holds BAs in Public Policy and Economics from Stanford University.

Andrea Medina-Smith is the Executive Editor for Sage Data. Prior to moving to Sage she was a Data Librarian at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Andrea holds a Master of Science in Library Science concentrating in Archives Management from Simmons College in Boston and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the Manchester Metropolitan University.

Adam is a product specialist focused on persistent identifiers and open research infrastructure. With experience spanning metacognitive learning, bioinformatics, and repository architectures, he works to enhance the discoverability and accessibility of research outputs through robust metadata and PIDs. At Jisc, he supports the UK ORCID consortium and contributes to developing interoperable scholarly infrastructure. His current interests include exploring how global PID networks and metadata standards can advance equitable access to research, while fostering the interconnected nature of scholarly information systems through open infrastructure development.

Myung-Ja (MJ) K. Han is the Andrew Turyn Professor and Metadata Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on metadata interoperability, information management, and the application of information technologies in libraries. She has served as Co-PI on research projects exploring the benefits for users of linked open data. She is also the co-author of two textbooks on XML. MJ currently serves on the MODS Editorial Board and the HathiTrust Program Steering Committee, and previously served as Chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC).

Joe is a Principal Scientist, in the National Gallery (NG), London, with expertise in preventive conservation, color science, conservation documentation, technical examination of paintings, generating/sharing digital images, image processing, web development, data management, and open-linked FAIR data. He is responsible for examining the “Interoperability of instrumentation and digital documentation” in the IPERION-HS (H2020) project and generating a new Data Management plan for the new E-RIHS ERIC within the E-RIHS IP (Horizon Europe) project. He also managed the The National Gallery’s involvement in the SSHOC (H2020) project and was the principal investigator on an AHRC funded project developing practical applications for IIIF.

Anne works at the University of Maryland for NASA’s Planetary Data System (PDS) as a data standards expert and metadata engineer. She focuses on issues of discoverability, reusability, and interoperability both within the PDS and among the national planetary archives that comprise the International Planetary Data Alliance.

Dorothea Strecker is a researcher and PhD candidate at the research group Information Management at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her PhD project, she is exploring metadata practices at research data repositories. She is a member of the ScholCommLab and the re3data Working Group.

Joined DataCite: April 2022
Based in: Vancouver, Canada

Kelly is responsible for the development and adoption of the DataCite Metadata Schema and works closely with the DataCite community on technical implementations. Prior to joining DataCite, Kelly worked at the Portage Network of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, where they contributed to national data discovery initiatives and supported the DataCite Canada Consortium. Kelly holds an MLIS from the University of British Columbia, a BS in Computer Science, and a BMus in Music Composition.

Favorite DataCite thing: “Supporting our community members with building REST API queries to make use of DataCite metadata.”

Joined DataCite: November 2023
Based in: Lerum, Sweden

Focusing on metadata quality, harmonization, and interoperability, Sara conducts quantitative and qualitative analyses to inform metadata strategies. She develops automated tools and dashboards to monitor and improve metadata usage, accessibility, and overall quality. Sara has a background in research data management, metadata curation, and semantic technologies.

Favorite DataCite feature: “Definitely DataCite Profiles. You can grant DataCite persistent permissions via the ORCID Search & Link wizard or directly through DataCite. This lets DataCite automatically update your ORCID record whenever your ORCID iD is included in metadata for a newly registered DOI.”