Summary
Sarah Bratt is an Assistant Professor of Digital Curation & Preservation with nine years of experience researching how people and communities organize, share, and sustain research data across cyberinfrastructure-enabled sciences. She combines quantitative and qualitative methods—from metadata analytics, network science, and inferential statistics to interviews and neuroimaging (fNIRS/EEG)—to study trust, resilience, and the ethics of AI in data curation. Multi-disciplinary collaborations and academic leadership inform her work advising students and supervising programs while translating research into practical data management practices for specialized and underrepresented communities. Sarah’s background in both library & information science and data science lets her bridge technical skills (SQL, R, Python, Linux, HTML) with professional writing, survey design, and visualization. Motivated by social justice, she focuses on long-term data sustainability and community-building, and she has investigated how large research repositories form resilient digital communities.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Library and Information Science, Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Library and Information Science at Syracuse University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, 3.7, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, 3.7 at Ithaca College
Italian, Spanish