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Regina L. Avila (Fed)

Librarian

Regina Avila is a Librarian at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, leading the library's exploration of artificial intelligence tools to support NIST researchers. She is also collaborating with NIST's Disaster and Failure Studies Program to curate and preserve research data vital to two investigations authorized by the National Construction Safety Team Act -- an investigation of the impacts of the 2017 Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the investigation into the cause of the 2021 collapse of the Champlain Towers condominium building in Surfside, Florida.  She has successfully collaborated with several NIST offices and laboratories in authoring policies and launching tools to curate and publish NIST research data. Ms. Avila has also participated in many other efforts in the library, including leading teams to digitize and preserve NIST publications, photographs, and oral histories in the NIST Digital Archives. She earned her Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver. Before she came to NIST she was a librarian and news researcher at The Denver Post.

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4340-2558

Awards

2019 Bronze Medal Award - "The team is recognized for developing and deploying an integrated software system that makes it easier for NIST scientists to share their data with the public through a secure cloud-based platform. The system meets NIST requirements for stewardship of research data throughout their lifecycle, including data management planning, review, curation, publication, and preservation, and fully satisfies OMB/OSTP policies for the management and delivery of the results of federally funded research."

Publications

The NIST Plan for Providing Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research

Author(s)
Katherine E. Sharpless, Regina L. Avila, Ronald F. Boisvert, A Kirk Dohne, James Fowler, Rachel B. Glenn, Gretchen Greene, Robert Hanisch, Andrea Medina-Smith, Alan Munter, Julie Petrousky, Yuri Ralchenko, Carolyn D. Rowland, James A. St Pierre, Adam Wunderlich, Jon Zhang
In 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a memo, "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research." In

The NIST Plan for Providing Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research

Author(s)
Katherine E. Sharpless, Regina L. Avila, Sally S. Bruce, Wo L. Chang, Robert M. Dimeo, Virginia Covahey, Alan K. Dohne, Heather M. Evans, Aaron P. Fein, Donna J. Kimball, Andrea M. Medina-Smith, Alan E. Munter, James K. Olthoff, Dianne L. Poster, Kathleen M. Roberts, Susannah B. Schiller, John H. Scott, Barbara P. Silcox, James A. St Pierre, Mark D. Stiles
Documentation of the evolution of NIST's plan for providing public access to results of federally funded research is provided, including the plan itself
Created August 19, 2019, Updated November 7, 2024
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