OTTAWA, ON – We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Sandra Crocker (Montreal) and Chuck Humphrey (Edmonton) to CASRAI’s Board of Directors. Sandra and Chuck bring a wealth of experience in research administration and data management to the Board and extensive connections within the national research community.
Sandra is Assistant Vice-Principal (Research Operations) at McGill. She has had a distinguished career in research administration. Prior to her work at McGill she served as Associate Vice-Principal (Research) in the Office of the Vice-Principal Research at Queen's University and as Queen's University's Director of the Office of Research Services. She is finishing a two year term as President of the Canadian Association of University Research Administrators (CAURA). Ms. Crocker is a member of the International Society for Research Administration, and has served on the editorial review board of The Journal of Research Administration, and on the boards of the Biocap Canada Charitable Foundation Inc., Insect Biotec Canada Inc., the Kingston Technology Council and the Ontario Centre for Communications and Information Technology.
Chuck is the Head of the Data Library at the University of Alberta and responsible for the implementation and management of a Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC) at the University of Alberta. He has worked on several regional, national and international initiatives to increase access to data for teaching and research. He has participated in the development of an international preservation metadata standard for microdata, known as DDI,and is currently overseeing a CFI-funded software project within the Canadian Research Data Centre Network to produce tools supporting the life cycle management of research data. Chuck is a member of the Research Data Strategy Working Group organized by CISTI to advance a national agenda on data stewardship in Canada and is the Lead for the Infrastructure and Services Task Group. In 2000, Mr. Humphrey received the Canadian Association of Research Libraries Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship recognizing his "expert knowledge of data formats, data access and preservation”.
Please join us in welcoming Sandra and Chuck as they bring their considerable experience to setting the strategic direction for, and ensuring effective governance of, CASRAI.
About CASRAI
CASRAI is a fully independent, not-for-profit organization that develops, maintains, and promotes standards for research administration data. It is supported by members of the research administration community. CASRAI’s mandate is to develop research administration standards that will improve the overall efficiency of research administration. Data intensive business processes (grant applications, progress reporting, and final reporting to funders, etc.) become more efficient and flexible in an environment based on data standards. CASRAI develops data standards that are both open and technologically neutral. This means members are free to use any IT systems they prefer to exchange research-related data. For more information about CASRAI please see: http://www.casrai.org.