About Us
We are a group of librarians, IT staff, and graduate students in the School of Library & Information Studies. We have expertise in data/digital information management and experience matching the needs of researchers with appropriate practices, tools, and campus resources. Our mission is assist UW-Madison researchers in their efforts to preserve and maintain their data. We can consult with you on data management approaches, provide assistance with technologies, and refer you to campus resources. Contact us with your questions or to schedule a consultation (at no charge).
You may also wish to join the Research Data campus mailing list. We monitor this list, but it also reaches campus researchers and research staff. To join, send an email to researchdata-join {at} lists.wisc.edu.
Digital Curation Team
Trisha Adamus, Ebling Library (Health Sciences)
Trisha Adamus is the Data, Network and Translational Research Librarian at the Ebling Library for the Health Science. Her interests include data sharing, open access for datasets and publications, data management best practices, data visualization and data management policy. She uses and promotes the use of research networks both on and off campus. Trisha was formerly an eScience Fellow at Syracuse University and a formulations chemist for Bausch & Lomb.
areas: Health Sciences & Biomedical
Allan Barclay, Ebling Library (Health Sciences)
I’m an Information Architecture Librarian at the Ebling Library for the Health Sciences. My interests include web development, resource indexing and discovery, and games and simulation in healthcare. I’m particularly interested in ways to make research data more findable, sharable and usable.
areas: Health Sciences & Biomedical
Bruce Barton, General Library System Shared Development Group
My interests include data architecture and design, ontologies, and digital object and metadata management. I’m presently active in the development of Work Spaces for Project Bamboo, a research computing ecosystem supporting the digital humanities. (See http://projectbamboo.org.)
areas: Humanities
Jan Cheetham, DoIT Academic Technology
I’m interested in helping sustain the lifespan of research data. My areas include data storage, technologies that integrate data management with research workflows, and the use of metadata standards.
areas: Biochemistry, Chemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology
Laura Grady, DoIT Academic Technology
Laura Grady is a marketing specialist with the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). Her background is marketing, communications, graphic design and writing.
areas: Information Technology
Brad Leege, DoIT Academic Technology
My background is in helping groups perform their primary tasks and meet research goals by working with them to figure out effective solutions for structuring data that meet the needs of the University and group while also being minimally invasive to day to day operations of the group. It’s been my experience that if the “solutions” implemented for data management issues cause more headaches on a day to day basis for the working group then they neither benefit the group’s mission nor the University community as a whole.
areas: Science
Caroline Meikle, Soil Science Department/UW-Extension
I’m an instructional technology consultant in the UW-Madison Soil Science department. My professional interests include the long-term curation and accessibility of digital data, and the use of data visualization and information architecture to facilitate understanding and broaden information dissemination.
areas: Life Sciences
Dorothea Salo, School of Library & Information Studies
My professional interests have always involved long-term use and preservation of digital data. I started working with digital text and SGML markup in 1999, and after earning my library degree in 2005, I have run digital-archiving services.
areas: Humanities, Linguistics, qualitative social sciences
Ryan Schryver, Wendt Commons (Engineering)
Ryan is a resource librarian with the Wendt Commons Engineering Library. He has a background in both private sector research and development as well as regulatory management through the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin. His current focus is assisting faculty and staff from the College of Engineering, and Departments of Computer Science and Statistics, in developing research background, as well as advising on issues related to intellectual property ownership.
areas: Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics
Cindy Severt, Data & Information Services Center (DISC)
Cindy Severt is a Senior Special Librarian at the Data & Information Services Center (DISC); a data library with a collection of quantitative numeric social science data used for secondary analysis.
areas: Social Sciences
Leah Ujda
Leah Ujda is the Digital Services Librarian at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. In this role she is responsible for: administration of the knowledge management software used by over sixty grant funded research projects in the area of Education Policy, consulting with PIs on data management plans for new grants, and managing archive and retention plans for completed projects.
areas: Education
Nancy Wiegand
Nancy Wiegand is a scientist working with geospatial data in the context of semantics. She has contacts within the geospatial community. She also is working with RDF, OWL, ontologies, and other semantic technologies.
areas: GIS
Alan Wolf
I direct the UW – Madison Digital Media Center. My background is the life sciences, specifically in systematic biology. Recently, I have been working in the area of digital libraries for the NSF sponsored National Science Digital Library.
areas: Biology, General Science, Education, STEM
Research Data Services is a collaboration between UW-Madison Libraries, DoIT, the CIO office, the Graduate School, and the School of Library and Information Studies to assist researchers with data curation needs. Digital data curation was identified as a campus IT strategic initiative.
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