Meet the new DMPTool Product Manager

Today, August 19, marks my seventh week as the new DMPTool Product Manager, and the latest Research Data Specialist to join the team at UC3. I’m thrilled to be joining such an active and engaged community of professionals committed to the principles of open science, open infrastructure, and public access to research and knowledge.

As I take the reins from Stephanie Simms, I’m grateful for her instrumental work in rethinking the capabilities of a data management plan (DMP) and her work with the community in developing the conceptual frameworks and use cases for the creation of machine-actionable DMPs. As I’ve learned more in these first weeks, I am invigorated by the plans for machine-actionable DMPs, seeing the critical role they could play in research and data sharing and the exciting potential for expanding their dynamism, utility, and centrality to research data workflows. 

Prior to joining CDL, I was a Program Manager in the Web Archiving and Data Services group at the Internet Archive. At the Internet Archive, I managed domain-scale web harvesting, dataset and indexing services, and computational access to large-scale data for researchers. I bring a strong background in product management for services used by a global set of partners and a commitment to community-driven feature development and system integrations. 

I’m looking forward to expanding upon this experience as I begin work on furthering development of the DMPTool, keeping in step with what can be useful to and benefit the community, and advancing our shared commitment to open access to research and research data.

Please feel free to reach out and introduce yourself! I’m eager to receive any feedback or questions. You can reach me directly at maria.praetzellis@ucop.edu.