(ella/she/sie)

💻alicia.urquidi@protonmail.com

📞 +1 250 885 1311

📧1-121 South Turner St., Victoria, BC V8V 2J9

Current position

Research Associate at the World Data System - International Technology Office (WDS-ITO); Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria.

Work experience on LinkedIn

Alicia Urquidi Díaz, PhD, MLIS - Research Associate - World Data System | LinkedIn

Academic work on ORCID

Alicia Urquidi Diaz (0000-0001-9766-3545)

"I admire [Alicia's] ability to find structure in chaos, see solutions where others see problems, and create perspective from within the most entangled of positions"

• A mechanical engineer

🔌Technical skills

<aside> 💡 Connect to & query data sources

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• Get data by crawling websites or querying an API with Python (cURL, wget..).
• Query a linked open data (RDF) endpoint with SPARQL.
• Use an OS (Linux/Ubuntu or Windows) without a GUI (but also with a GUI), and I can connect to a remote server.
• Use Jupyter Notebooks, (often for Python, almost always for R).

Personal sandbox on GitHub

aliciuki - Overview

<aside> 💡 Refine data & give it structure

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• Turn unstructured data (especially text files) into structured datasets with regex, Python, R, Pandoc, and other tricks and hacks.
• Use Python and OxygenXML to manipulate structured data as JSON(L), XML. - Design and build a relational database to contain structured datasets, using MySQL/MS SQL.

My Zotero libraries

Alicia

Academics

Techy areas of study

🏅 Awards and Scholarships

2018 & 2019 DHSI tuition scholarships, UVic, Victoria, BC 2018 & 2019 International Tuition Award, Graduate Studies, UBC 2018 R. Howard Webster Foundation Fellowship, Green College, UBC 2018 Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, UBC 2015 DAAD International Doctorates Scholarship (IPID4all) 2013 & 2015 Step-by-Step PhD Scholarships, Uni-Bamberg

🤝 Memberships

Green College Society Portage Network's Discovery and Metadata Expert Group (DMEG) Portage Network's Canadian Data Repository Landscape Working Group International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) Alliance of Digital Humanities Associations (ADHO)

On Twitter

https://twitter.com/aliciabedul/status/1396185558792081408

🗨️ Languages

🇪🇸🇨🇱 Spanish

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Native

🇩🇪 German

⭐⭐⭐⭐ C2 (DSH-3)

🇨🇦 English

⭐⭐⭐⭐ C2

🇫🇷🇨🇦 French

⭐⭐⭐ A2/B1