Beth Knazook

Beth Knazook is the project manager, research data at the Digital Repository of Ireland where she is working on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Future project, an EU-funded initiative to give European researchers wide access to FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data and related services. She was previously the preservation coordinator for the Portage Network, an organisation established by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries to foster a national research data culture through the provision of research data services and infrastructure. She has also worked as the digitisation manager for Huron County Library and curator of special collections for Ryerson University Library. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art and Visual Culture at Western University, in London, Canada, focusing on the introduction of photography into book illustration in nineteenth-century Canada.

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3108-3921

Expert/advisory roles

• Canadiana Trustworthy Digital Repository Audit Group (2021- )
• Data Curation Network Big Data Interest Group (2021- )
• Digital Research Alliance of Canada Preservation Expert Group (2019-2022)
• Portage Network COVID-19 Working Group (2020)