Kelly joined Crossref in November 2026 as Technical Project Lead to coordinate the system redesign project. They are passionate about making open infrastructures more approachable and maintainable. Prior to joining Crossref, Kelly worked in product and community management at DataCite, where they were responsible for the development and adoption of the metadata schema. Kelly holds a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia. They live in Vancouver, British Columbia where they can be found befriending neighbourhood cats.
Preserving the integrity of the scholarly record is an important component of the overall endeavour to protect research integrity. Open scholarly infrastructure enables persistent recording of research objects and associated metadata, which provides an evidence trail for these objects for all in the research community. Crossref and DataCite – as providers of essential infrastructure for preservation of the scholarly record – we share our joint expertise in the new guide on “Why metadata matters for research integrity and how to contribute”.
