Sonia Barbosa
Associate Director Of Dataverse Support, Data Curation, And The Murray Archive
United States
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Top SchoolSonia Barbosa is an experienced data curation and repository leader with 11+ years building and sustaining the Harvard Dataverse and the Murray Research Archive. As Associate Director of Dataverse Support she combines hands-on curation, user training, and technical integration work—recently advancing large-data support via Globus and implementing Traditional Knowledge Labels with Local Contexts. Her career spans operational archive management, metadata and data lifecycle design, and long-running stewardship of sensitive longitudinal social science data focused on women's lives. She co-chaired Year Three of the NIH-Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative, helping bridge generalist repositories into the NIH data ecosystem and improve discoverability of funded research. Known for translating researcher needs into practical repository workflows, she also brings deep institutional knowledge from two decades of archive operations and data processing.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
2008, 2008 at Simmons CollegeJohn D. O'BryantBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at College of the Holy CrossBSN, BSN at Simmons University
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Github Skills (8)
data-repository10
open-source10
creative-commons10
dataverse4
data-platform1
portal1
data-analysis1
datasets1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NIH-GREI/grei-pm
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 push, 8 comments, 25 issues in 4 months
IQSS/dataverse
Mar 2015 - Mar 2025
Open source research data repository software
Contributions:1 review, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 1 month
research-datadata-repositoryopendataresearch-data-repositorycreative-commons
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