Jodie Francis
Volunteer
Senior Database Analyst
Ottawa, Canada
In charge of information management for national reference collections (plant & invertebrate fossils, meteorites, minerals) held by a federal department. Challenges such as: communicating the importance and complexity of curation & collection management to upper levels of bureaucracy; moving ahead on projects with minimal resources (reliance on volunteers, students and contractors), and the importance of collaborating with partners who are developing standards for information sharing, rather than re-inventing the wheel.