Senior Research Data Management Consultant
Duke University
Years Active: 2018 -
Sophia provides data management instruction and guidance on best practices for organizing, documenting, preserving, and publishing research data. Sophia also works as one of the data curators for Duke’s data repository program. Prior to joining Duke, Sophia was a Research Data Manager at the UNC Odum Institute for Research in Social Science Data Archive where she curated social science research data. Within that role, Sophia also worked on the CRADLE project that created the Research Data Management and Sharing online course and worked with political science journals to develop workflows that incorporate data citation, data curation, and more reproducible research practices.
Sophia was also the Principal Investigator for the Specialized Data Curation Pilot Prokect, funded by IMLS: RE-252343-OLS-22.
Pronouns: she/her
See also: Get to know DCN Curator Sophia Lafferty-Hess!Value of Curation: End User Satisfaction Interest Group Update and Webinar
Datasets curated by Sophia:
- DCN-10: APAL Coupling Study 2019
- DCN-36: Tweet IDs annotated for enthusiasm and support…
- DCN-44: Vertical Dependence of Horizontal Scaling…
- DCN-59: Verasonics Processing Test
- DCN-85: RoboCOP: Multivariate state space model
- DCN-106: Patient burden and clinical advances…
- DCN-120: Evaluation of the mycobiome of ballast water…
- DCN-138: Why we fail: stakeholders’ perceptions of the social and ecological barriers to reforestation…
- DCN-198: Variation in carotenoid-containing retinal oil droplets …
- DCN-200: World Values Survey and World Bank Data for measuring perceptions…
- DCN-217: A semi-automated method for estimating Adelie penguin colony abundance…
- DCN-250: Characterization of pubertal development of girls…
- DCN-302: Data from: Estimating dredge-induced…
- DCN-319: Data and scripts accompanying: Localized orbital scaling…
- DCN-330: Comparison of 3D structural metrics…
- DCN-396: Prevalence of Bias against Neurodivergence-Related…
- DCN-479: A global dataset of preferential …
Data Curation Primer Contributions:
Google Docs (Mentor)
SPSS (Mentor)
Clinical Trials Data Primer (Mentor)
Archaeology Data Primer (Mentor)
Sensitive Biodiversity Data Essentials Primer (Reviewer)
OpenRefine Primer (Mentor)
Data Curation Education Contributions:
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, October 2018, IMLS Project #RE-85-18-004018, Las Vegas NV (Instructor)
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, October 2022, Minneapolis MN (Instructor)
- CURATED Online Training, 2022, IMLS Project #RE-85-18-004018 (Creator)
- Specialized Data Curation Training Project, 2022-2025, IMLS Project #RE-252343-OLS-22 (PI)
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, February 2023, Love Data Week, Virtual (Instructor)
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, April 2023, NIH Series, Bethesda MD (Instructor)
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, September 2023, Virtual (Instructor)
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, October 2023, Ambassador Hosted, Albuquerque NM (Instructor)
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, May 2024, DCN AHM, Durham NC (Instructor)
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, March 2025, NIH Series, Bethesda MD (Instructor)
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, March 2025, Virtual (Instructor)
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, June 2025, DCN AHM, Madison WI (Instructor)
- CURATE(D) Fundamentals Workshop, December 2025, Virtual (Instructor)