Cosette spearheads a pilot collaboration between RDDS and the UPenn Press to design and develop digital publications that advance scholarly ideas through multimodal and interactive digital enhancements. She consults on digital publication paths and facilitates new forms of scholarly communication across campus.
Dorothy manages ScholarlyCommons, the University of Pennsylvania's institutional repository. She provides training and support to ScholarlyCommons users across campus and works together with library and campus partners to highlight the benefits of making scholarship at Penn openly available.
Cynthia initiates and supports digital projects, scholarship, and programs that center community partnerships and public engagement. She consults with audiences on and beyond campus to actively facilitate opportunities for equitable collaboration, resource sharing, and critical inquiry in the digital realm.
Cassandra serves as a liaison between the Libraries’ Center for Research Data & Digital and the Price Lab. She specializes in managing and supporting digital projects across a range of media. Her interests include archival information systems, decolonial mapping, queer interfaces, e-textiles, and feminist data visualization.
Andy works with project partners as the server-side programmer and technical lead on data-intensive digital humanities and digital scholarship projects. He creates lightweight web applications, digital humanities tools, and digital projects in collaboration with Penn faculty and students.
Jaj engages with researchers across the disciplines interested in employing techniques for data storytelling, natural language processing, computational social sciences, data visualization, network analysis, and text mining. She works with campus partners to establish foundational programming in research computing, data literacy, and data ethics.
Lynda designs, develops, and oversees the Libraries’ research support services for Penn community members who work with data at any point in the research lifecycle. She works with the RDDS team and subject librarians to develop programming, educational opportunities, and more.
Ben supports faculty and students of all backgrounds with integrating spatial analysis into learning and research. He enjoys enabling others to form new insights into communities and environments through the use of accessible GIS technology, and is particularly interested in enabling research for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Girmaye provides research consultation and training services to faculty, staff, and students who are engaging with spatial methods, bringing deep technical expertise in both GIS and Mapping application development to that work. He enjoys the daily interaction with the campus community across all disciplines and the everyday new learning experience associated with it.
Lauren supports and collaborates with research teams, faculty, and students across the subject area spectrum regarding data management, data analysis, data literacy, data sharing, research workflows, and compliance with publisher and funder mandates. Her goal is to assist researchers with managing the research process so they can conduct efficient, effective, and ethical research.
