Andrea Medina-smith
Executive Editor, Sage Data
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Medina-Smith is an information and data services leader with 11 years of experience helping research organizations make publications and datasets discoverable, accessible, and FAIR. Currently Executive Editor for Sage Data, she previously led data and metadata services at NIST, where she drove DOI deployments for thousands of digital objects and automated repository workflows. Trained in archives management with advanced study in digital curation and a PhD in Information and Communication in progress, she blends archival rigor with practical automation (ExifTool, XSLT) and policy work on persistent identifiers. Colleagues know her as the “PID Queen,” reflecting deep expertise in persistent identifiers and research data management. Based in Baltimore, she pairs hands-on technical skills and metadata design with program-level project planning, training, and assessment. A detail-oriented strategist, she often surfaces value by turning preservation requirements into scalable, discoverable outputs.
10 years of coding experience
M.S., Library and Information Science, Archives, M.S., Library and Information Science, Archives at Simmons CollegeDiploma, Estudios Hispanicos, Diploma, Estudios Hispanicos at Universidad de SalamancaUniversity of California Santa CruzDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information and Communication, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information and Communication at The Manchester Metropolitan UniversityThe University of Maryland, College Park
Spanish
Github Skills (10)
portal8
open-data7
data-management5
data-cleaning3
data-science2
openrefine2
data-wrangling2
stable2
reconciliation2
data-visualisation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
andreamedinasmith/planets
Jul 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
andreamedinasmith/sprint-content
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:26 pushes in 1 month
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