Dr Sarah Callaghan is a senior scientific researcher and project manager for the British Atmospheric Data Centre, at STFC Rutherford Appleton, UK. She currently project manages the NERC Data Citation and Publication project, which is a cross NERC Data Centre project which aims to develop the mechanisms for the citation and publication of datasets. She is also a co- chair of the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citations, a member of the DataCite Working Group on Criteria for Datacentres, and an associate editor for the scientific journals Atmospheric Science Letters and Geoscience Data Journal. She is project manager for the PREPARDE project, which works with publishers and researchers to develop the processes and procedures needed for data publication. She has experience of both creating and managing large datasets, and so understands well the frustrations that scientists can experience as a result of dealing with data. She blogs about data citation and publication at
http://citingbytes.blogspot.co.uk