Lynn Woolfrey
Lynn Woolfrey is a data scientist in the field of data curation with 30 years’ experience in preserving and sharing African data from governments and research institutions. She is responsible for data services and infrastructure at DataFirst. DataFirst’s open data repository, that provides open access to African data, is a World Data System member repository and has been awarded the Data Seal of Approval and CoreTrustSeal trusted digital repository certifications. Lynn recently set up an African reproducibility and replication site on our repository to allow African researchers to post the data underlying their research for open, reproducible science. She also established Africa’s only Trusted Research Environment (TRE), our secure remote access data enclave, to widen research access to sensitive African data otherwise not available to researchers. Lynn and her team and pass on lessons learned by training African researchers and government officials to curate and share their data and assisting SA universities with Research Data Management policymaking.