Who We Are
About us
Semantify helps research organizations, repositories, and funders design metadata and PID systems that interoperate — and make sure they get adopted.
Research infrastructure strategist who leads DataCite's Templeton-funded FAIR Workflows programme across seven international partners, with a research career rooted in user studies of CERN's open-data and analysis-preservation services.
Current
- —FAIR Workflows Project Lead, DataCite (Templeton WCF-funded, 3 years, 7 partners, 38 outputs)
- —Co-chair, RDA “Working with PIDs in Tools” Interest Group
Past
- —Co-chair, DataCite APAC Expert Group
- —Doctoral researcher / data-management collaborator at CERN Scientific Information Service — communications and engagement lead on the EC THOR PID project; user research and information architecture on the CERN Open Data Portal and CERN Analysis Preservation
- —DataCite schema contributor — Award and Preregistration resource types; CSTR as alternative PID
- —FORCE11 summer school instructor (PIDs, RDM)
- —PhD Information Studies, University of Sheffield iSchool (data reuse practices among high-energy physicists, based at CERN); MS, Syracuse iSchool; BA, Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology
Representative publications
- —Chen, X., Dallmeier-Tiessen, S. et al. Open is not enough. Nature Physics 15, 113–119 (2019)
- —Chen, X., Dallmeier-Tiessen, S. et al. CERN Analysis Preservation: A Novel Digital Library Service. TPDL 2016
- —Guide for funders to support FAIR workflows & enable research tracking. Zenodo, 2023 (DataCite × Crossref × ORCID)
- —The Role of Funders in Building a Robust and Trustworthy Output Tracking Mechanism Using PIDs and Open Metadata. Zenodo, 2023
Methods depth
Qualitative user research (semi-structured interviews, contextual inquiry)Usability evaluation of scholarly toolsInformation architectureStakeholder mappingMulti-partner programme leadershipFunder engagement & guidance authoringAdoption strategy & change managementCross-organisational coordination (DataCite × Crossref × ORCID × MPI)Library & information science methodologyAPAC ecosystem access (CNIC, ARDC, China research-data community)
Co-founder
To be announced
New co-founder profile coming soon