{"id":289,"date":"2014-10-17T14:42:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2014-10-17T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T14:48:16","slug":"mary-zborowski-statement-in-support-of-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/17\/mary-zborowski-statement-in-support-of-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Zborowski: Statement in Support of Candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ZborowskiBio-for2014Candidacy\"<\/a>This is the third\u00a0in the series of short statements from candidates in the forthcoming CODATA Elections. Mary Zborowski currently serves on the Executive Committee and is seeking re-election.\u00a0 She is nominated by the Canadian CODATA National Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mary Zborowski has served on CODATA\u2019s Executive Committee<\/a> since 2012 (CODATA GA, Taipei) but has been involved with CODATA Canada<\/a> since 1998. Since 2004, she has been Executive Secretary for the Canadian National Committee for CODATA (CNC\/CODATA)<\/a>. Under her management, the CNC has thrived and attracted new key participants from Canada\u2019s principal granting agencies, government departments, collaborative working groups, data-related initiatives, and large scientific research projects such as NEPTUNE Canada and International Polar Year \u2013 which projects involve widespread collaboration and result in large data collections. Mary has also been involved with the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)<\/a> and was Executive Secretary to the Canadian Research Data Strategy Working Group, a multi-disciplinary group of universities, institutes, libraries, granting agencies, and individual researchers with a shared recognition of the pressing need to deal with Canadian data management issues. (This working group\u2019s most recent success was the Canadian Research Data Summit, which attracted over 150 leading players and decision-makers from government, private sector, academia and non-governmental organizations.)<\/p>\n

Mary\u2019s personal enthusiasm and commitment have combined with her organizational abilities to effectively promote many of CNC\/CODATA\u2019s initiatives, such as the Sangster Award for young scientists, communicated among all graduate universities in Canada and in similar networks, and awarded biennially in coordination with CODATA\u2019s International Conference. She is editor of the bilingual serial, Report on Data Activities in Canada<\/em>, presented to CODATA at its General Assemblies as evidence of Canada\u2019s contribution to shared priorities. She is also on the Editorial Board of CODATA\u2019s <\/a>Data Science Journal<\/a>,<\/em> in which journal she also has published articles. She has contributed to CODATA\u2019s Newsletters, and also to publications of own organization, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and to its networks. NRC ranks CNC\/CODATA as one of the highest ranked among its sponsored CNCs, thereby ensuring ongoing support of the Canadian National Committee as well as its involvement with CODATA International.<\/p>\n

Mary\u2019s background in atomic and molecular physics was followed by over 20 years\u2019 experience in Library and Information Science, working extensively with databases, catalogues, collaborative projects, and delivery of information services to researchers. She is especially attuned to the complexities relating to the design and delivery of services during times of rapid technological change. Since 2008, Mary worked at the corporate level, preparing ministerial documents detailing NRC\u2019s performance strategy and resultant impact to the Canadian innovation community. In recent years, she has planned and chairs sessions at international conferences held in Canada, for the purpose of promoting the interests of both CODATA and WDS.<\/p>\n

Mary has been a technical advisor to CODATA on web and publishing matters since 1998 and it is through her personal and active involvement that CODATA\u2019s web site was moved to a new and economical infrastructure in 2013, then redesigned and re-launched. She is the current Liaison officer to the CODATA Fundamental Constants Task Group<\/a> and has participated in the successful running of SciDataCon2014 in New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the third\u00a0in the series of short statements from candidates in the forthcoming CODATA Elections. Mary Zborowski currently serves on the Executive Committee and is seeking re-election.\u00a0 She is nominated by the Canadian CODATA National Committee. Mary Zborowski has served on CODATA\u2019s Executive Committee since 2012 (CODATA GA, Taipei) but has been involved with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}