CDVS welcomes Helenmary Sheridan as the third member of the research data management (RDM) team. Helenmary joined Duke in August 2024 to help the library scale up classes, group trainings, and individualized consultations on RDM topics including NIH data management plans, data sharing in repositories such as the Duke Research Data Repository, and improving research reproducibility through documentation. Her position is supported by the Compute and Data Services Alliance for Research (CDSA), a new cross-campus initiative to support researchers with their computational needs.
Prior to joining Duke, Helenmary was the Data Services Librarian at the health sciences library at the University of Pittsburgh, where she provided data management training to faculty, staff, and students across the health disciplines. She has nearly ten years of experience working with scientific metadata and file formats, especially for data from imaging research (biomedical and otherwise.)
Helenmary’s favorite part of her job is teaching, especially Introduction to Research Data Management workshops for new graduate students and faculty that may be their first formal experience with research data methods. “It sounds like a dry subject,” she says, “so I love to see how excited researchers get when they realize how much easier these tools can make their lives.” You can contact Helenmary through the CDVS inbox at: askdata@duke.edu.
