Patricia Herterich
Co Executive Director at Software Sustainability Institute
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPatricia Herterich is an experienced research data and open science leader with 11 years shaping data policy, repositories, and community infrastructure from CERN to UK universities. Now Co-Executive Director at Open Life Science and running an independent consulting practice, she blends operational leadership with hands-on technical work—contributing full-stack edits to the CERN Open Data portal and developing metadata schemas and interoperability workflows during her PhD research. Her career spans roles in research data management, project delivery, and fellowship programs where she has driven ORCID/CRIS integration, DMP training, and repository strategy. Known for bridging the gap between technical implementation and governance, she brings a rare mix of library science expertise, software-savvy, and nonprofit operational experience based in Edinburgh.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Library and Information Science, Master of Arts (M.A.), Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinKøbenhavns Universitet
German, English, French, Swedish
Github Skills (12)
nio10
open-data10
data-repository10
git-repository10
document-repository10
io10
content-repository10
flask10
flask-ask10
python9
html8
json-schema6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cernopendata/opendata.cern.ch
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Source code for the CERN Open Data portal
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:100 commits, 15 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Patricia contributed to the CERN Open Data portal by adding and modifying content related to the CMS datasets. They updated the about.html page, addressing typo fixes and upgrading the CERN group name. The user also made changes related to the inclusion of new records for various CMS collections. These changes indicate a focus on content management and data presentation within the portal.
digital-librarypythoncerninveniosoftwaredigital-repository
open-life-science/resident-fellowship-patricia
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:18 commits, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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