My research focuses on advancing research and practice in long-term research data sustainability. I focus on the intersection of the practices, metrics, and archival infrastructures that support and maintain "data-intensive" science. These projects include work with collaborators from University of Arizona School of Sociology, UIUC, University of Tennessee, the Metadata Lab @Syracuse University, University of Fairfield, Ithaca College, and Gonzaga University, among others. Check out my CV and the videos below for examples of ongoing research!

Research Projects and Presentations

My current research projects have been presented at conferences including ASIS&T, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), the International Conference for Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), and invited talks including at the Network Science Society (NetSci), University of Arizona School of Sociology, and Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS). The videos represent completed and ongoing work, collaboratively with students and colleagues.

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Our UA College of InfoSci capstone student, Swetha Kolloju, designed a poster for the College of InfoSci "iShowcase." In collaboration with Dr. Cristian Román-Palacios (Assistant Professor, UA College of InfoSci), we conducted a study of scientific software use and collaborations in phylogenetics. Swetha created bimodal networks to model scientific collaboration and software use. We asked: Do scientists with shared characteristics (language, national or regional university affiliation) tend to use the same software in computational biology, specifically, in phylogenetics?

Swetha found that most scientists tend to use the same software, but that bridging scientists (who use multiple software, e.g., BEAST2 and IQ-TREE) may be catalysts for new collaborations. While this pattern could benefit from a deeper investigation, we hypothesize that the scientists who bridge the "hub" software communities are valued for their expertise on multiple software platforms. In the linguistic analysis of software use, Swetha found that MEGA is most prevalent among papers written in Spanish and English. Interestingly, Spanish and Finnish scientists can boast the most diverse use of software: Spanish-writing scientists use MEGA, NDE, RAxML most often, and Finnish scientists use BEAST, TNT, and IQ-TREE.

CIRSS Seminar, Fall 2024 - Sarah Bratt, December 6th 2024Zoom Recording ID: 87511035075 UUID: /KTW/0rNSE+ht6LfH8+54Q== Meeting Time: 2024-12-06 04:43:47pmGMT

Workshop Presentation at the Humility in Inquiry Integration Workshop at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Denver, CO. February 20, 2025.

ASIS&T'24 Workshop: LLMs in U.S. Academic Libraries

ASIS&T'24 Workshop: AI Literacy Toolkit in Pima County Public Libraries

ASIS&T'24 Poster: A Text-Based Measure of Humility in Inquiry Using Computational Grounded Theory

Paper Summary: Longitudinal Analysis of GenBank Metadata: Scientific Collaboration (AM2020)

ICSSI 2024 Research Presentation: Sarah Stueve and Sarah Bratt, University of Arizona

Extending and Destabilizing the Scientific Lab: Intersectionality in/and the Digital Humanities

Evolutionary Archives CAS Workshop IEEE Big Data 2022

Data Stewardship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

How do we institutionalize care in data curation? How do we leverage AI in libraries, museums, and archives?

HealthierInfoEcosystems2023-Lightning Talk

Science of Science (SoS): Equity and International Collaboration in Dataset Production

What is the division of labor on scientific datasets? Can we quantify the "western skew" in global dataset production?

Big Metadata Analytics: Data Ecosystem for Studying Science

Metadata lack linking systems to study of the biomedical research enterprise at scale. How can we create a linked ecosystem of big metadata to analyze the research enterprise?

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