Research Interests: Research Data Management, Digital Preservation, Digitisation, Open Science, Collections as Data, Digital Humanities, History of Photography
Qualifications: PhD Art and Visual Culture in progress (Western University), MA Photographic Preservation and Collections Management (Ryerson University / George Eastman House Museum), BA Fine Art History (University of Toronto)
Contact: b.knazook@ria.ie / @bethknazook
Profile
Beth Knazook is the project manager, research data at the Digital Repository of Ireland where she is working on two European projects to improve the sharing and reuse of research data across the disciplines. She is the Work Package Lead for the Cultural Heritage Case Study (WP13) in the WorldFAIR Project, a Horizon Europe funded initiative to promote global cooperation of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data policy and practice. She is also a Task Lead on the EOSC Future Project, an EU-funded initiative to implement the European Open Science Cloud, aimed at giving European researchers wide access to FAIR data and related services.
Beth 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 services and infrastructure (now a part of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada). She has also worked as the digitisation manager for Huron County Library and curator of special collections for Ryerson University Library. She currently teaches professional development courses focused on managing and sharing photograph collections for Library Juice Academy and the Society of American Archivists.
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3108-3921
Expert/advisory roles
- Data Curation Network Big Data Interest Group (2021- ), Co-chair
- RDA Organisational Assembly (2022- )
- Digital Research Alliance of Canada Curation Expert Group (2022- )
- Digital Research Alliance of Canada Preservation Expert Group (2019-2023)
- Canadiana Trustworthy Digital Repository Audit Group (2021-2022)
- Portage Network COVID-19 Working Group (2020)
