This week, Rory is joined by Sonia Barbosa, Manager of Data Curation at the Harvard Dataverse Repository, for a deep dive into Dataverse and the latest developments regarding repositories and facilitation of sharing in the field of research data management!

Rory and Sonia begin this detailed and insightful conversation with a brief look at Sonia's background and how she got started with her interest in research data management in the first place. Sonia takes this opportunity to reflect on her career, and shares how her work led her to her current position, as Manager of Data Curation at the Harvard Dataverse Repository.

To kick off, Sonia shares more about the background and inception of Dataverse, before touching on aspects that led to its success and improved its offerings, such as the robust focus on community. Sonia talks about the importance of establishing trust within the community, and shares examples of the work she did to further support and strengthen relationships with researchers and the wider research community, and goes on to mention opportunities that might interest researchers such as upcoming webinars on data sharing and the use of repositories

As the conversation continues to develop, Sonia and Rory dive into the latest developments as they relate to Sonia's role, going on to talk about the use of Data Management Plans, collaboration between repositories, and the essential task of meeting researchers halfway to encourage use of tools such as the Harvard Dataverse Repository.

Join us for the full conversation and learn about Sonia's role at the Harvard Dataverse Repository, the latest developments and much more!