Marta Nicholson
Systems Developer at Digital Curation Centre
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarta Nicholson is a systems developer with 11 years of professional experience building information management and digital curation solutions across clinical trials, social policy, financial services, and research data. Based in Edinburgh, she combines a BSc in Informatics Management and an MSc in Information Management and Preservation from the University of Glasgow with deep domain knowledge of data curation, regulatory compliance, and multimedia dataset handling. At the Digital Curation Centre she designs, develops and maintains DMPonline and its international instances, turning complex data requirements into practical, auditable workflows. She is equally comfortable coding new features and defining curation processes, and brings nearly two decades of hands-on experience in both software engineering and records management. A detail-oriented practitioner, Marta’s work bridges technical implementation and policy-aligned data stewardship to make research data more accessible and reusable.
11 years of coding experience
M.Sc. Information Management and Preservation (Digital), Archives, Records Information Management & Digital Curation, M.Sc. Information Management and Preservation (Digital), Archives, Records Information Management & Digital Curation at Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), Glasgow UniversityLicentiate degree Informatics Management, Information Technology Project Management, Licentiate degree Informatics Management, Information Technology Project Management at Universidade do MinhoEscola D. Sancho I
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
dmp10
data-management10
ruby10
planning10
ruby-on-rails10
forking9
nodejs9
collaboration9
renewable-energy6
codebase6
open-data5
tweak4
whatsapp3
windows1
desktop1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DigitalCurationCentre/roadmap_dev_env
Jul 2020 - Jul 2023
A docker environment to run roadmap project
Contributions:113 PRs, 66 pushes, 74 branches in 3 years
containersdocker-environmentdocker-composedocker
DigitalCurationCentre/dcc_roadmap
May 2023 - Feb 2024
DCC/UC3 collaboration for a data management planning tool
Contributions:1 release, 16 PRs, 16 pushes in 9 months
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