Cynthia Hudson Vitale is the Head of Research Informatics and Publishing at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries where she leads a team focused on enhancing the technology-driven research capacity of faculty and students particularly in the areas of statistics, digital humanities, research data services, open-access publishing, and maps & GIS. She is a founding member of the Data Curation Network, a multi-institutional initiative building a shared staffing model for making research data FAIR and the principal investigator on a project developing specialized data curation training. She received her BA from St. Louis University and her MA from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her areas of expertise include information architecture, data curation, and scholarly communication.
