Xiaoli Chen · 陈小立

DataCite

Leading a ~$1M USD FAIR Workflows grant across seven international partners, coordinating 38 deliverables from publications to technical implementations. Representing DataCite in the wider open infrastructure ecosystem.

Grant leadership

Managed project milestones across distributed teams; tracked reuse of research outputs to inform impact measurement; developed training materials for PID adoption.

Community engagement

Represented DataCite at 20+ conferences. Chair, RDA PIDs in Tools IG. Co-chair, DataCite APAC Expert Group. FORCE11 summer school instructor. Lead for Registered Service Providers Program (17 partners).

Service development

Drove inclusion of CSTR as an alternate identifier type in DataCite metadata schema v4.6 — a concrete China-international bridge. Onboarded Award and Preregistration as new resource types.

CERN

Studied the information behaviour of the high-energy physics community through semi-structured interviews and large-scale surveys. Redesigned the information architecture of the CERN Open Data portal and prototyped features for CERN Analysis Preservation. Contributed PID landscape research to the EU-funded THOR project; outputs fed into doctoral research on engaging scientists in Open Science practice.

Earlier research & curation roles

Research Assistant at CERN analysing INSPIRE user feedback and log data. INSPIRE digital library curator at Fermilab. Digital curator at the League of Women Voters establishing the organisation's first digital archive.