Sarah Lisa Day
Sarah Day is a scientific Information specialist and has been working since February 2026 on the DFG project “Der Wert der Architektur” in the Research Area “Contemporary History and Archives.”
From 2019 to June 2022, she worked as a Information specialist in the BMBF project “StadtWende” in the “Contemporary History and Archives” Research Area. In this project, she developed and modeled the associated website stadtwende.de, bundling, processing, and visually presenting the data from the project partners. Following this (2022–2023), she worked as a research assistant for the National Research Data Infrastructure Association (NFDI) in the BMBF project “Data literacy in NFDI” (Datenkompetenz in NFDI), where she compiled an overview of the requirements for continuing education courses in the areas of data literacy and data science for scientists.
She holds a bachelor's degree in museum studies from the University of Applied Sciences with a focus on museum databases on the Internet. She completed her master's degree in library and information science at Humboldt University to Berlin, where her thesis dealt with the quality assessment of metadata in the Digital Humanities.
Her focus includes the implementation of projects in which she develops digital presentation options for websites and deals with the modeling, structuring, and quality of data. Research data management also plays a central role in this, especially with regard to the sustainable processing and archiving of scientific data.
