Spotlight on: Santiago Bolaños Meneses
Every other week, the Thematic DCCs and the Data Steward Interest Group (DSIG) put the spotlight on one research data steward working in the Netherlands to stimulate knowledge exchange and peer-to-peer learning.
What drew you towards the research data management field?
The idea of supporting research without having to choose a specific field of research but rather learning from each other and being able to put all the pieces together to help innovate or optimize infrastructures, workflows, etc.
What is an activity/task of your role that you find yourself looking forward to?
Data mining for data enrichment. I enjoy diving into new datasets and discovering how I can link the data/metadata together to make it enriched.
What is something unexpected that you can offer help with, if a colleague reaches out to you?
EGA submissions, NWO submissions, Genomics data.
What do you think your community of research data professionals is missing?
A software developer that can have a critical eye of the software the UMCs are looking into and finding potential advantages or disadvantages on choosing one or the other.
What is a topic you would want to collaborate on with others?
Multi-omics metadata standards, Federated EGA for the Netherlands, Health Data Access Body Genomics (HDAB-NL) policies.
How would you like to see your current field of work evolve in the next 5 years?
I would like to be at a position in which I can be a product owner within a UMC's Research Data Management department that can offer to collaborate with research groups, other departments and manage a group of people that develop, maintain and onboard new people in the use of this product.
Do you have an open question yourself that you would like to see your peers answer?
How do you explain what you do in research data management to colleagues outside RDM?
Get in touch with Santiago Bolaños Meneses on: LinkedIn | ORCID
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