Rachel Woodbrook, she/her/hers DCN Director

Rachel has shoulder-length curly darke blonde hair and is wearing red glasses and a blue floral-patterned shirt.

Email: [email protected]
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4548-944X

Full position title(s): Director, Data Curation Network
Libraries department: Open Research & Publishing

About

Rachel is the Director of the Data Curation Network, a cross-institutional membership community of research data management professionals administered through the University of Minnesota. She has a background in research data and institutional repository management at the University of Michigan Library and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

Research Interests & Publications

Rachel is particularly interested in data ethics and accessibility as well as cross-organizational cultural heritage metadata and data management. A few projects she has recently contributed toward include:

Accessibility for Data and Data Repositories: Understanding and Applying the 2024 ADA Title II Rule (2026)
Reparative Description and Metadata Remediation Planning at the University of Michigan Deep Blue Institutional Repositories (2025)

Education

MLIS, University of Washington iSchool
MA, Museology, University of Washington