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Kahea-21

Katherine Hearne contributed to the SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir repository by engineering robust data curation and management workflows for archaeological and bioinformatics datasets. Over nine months, she expanded and maintained complex TSV and JSON datasets, integrating new radiocarbon dating sources and refining host-associated metadata to improve data accuracy and reproducibility. Her work included developing documentation tutorials in Markdown, standardizing metadata processes, and implementing configuration management for lab codes. By addressing schema errors, enhancing data validation, and maintaining comprehensive changelogs, Katherine ensured high data integrity and traceability, enabling reliable downstream analyses and supporting reproducible research across genomics and archaeological data domains.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

94%Features

Repository Contributions

309Total
Bugs
6
Commits
309
Features
88
Lines of code
1,688
Activity Months9

Work History

February 2026

9 Commits • 3 Features

Feb 1, 2026

Concise monthly summary for Feb 2026 focusing on data quality, metadata, and documentation improvements for SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir. Delivered clear calibrated age range terminology, updated host-associated dates for ancient metagenomes, and expanded CHANGELOG with attribution, strengthening data relevance, reproducibility, and governance.

December 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2025

Month 2025-12 monthly summary for SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir: Delivered a new Documentation Tutorial on adding dates metadata for ancientsinglegenome-hostassociated samples, enhancing onboarding and data annotation. Implemented the C14 Tutorial section (#1612) with accompanying files, links, and navigation updates. Performed targeted documentation hygiene by fixing broken links and updating the table of contents and images to improve accessibility. This work strengthens the data curation workflow and metadata consistency across the repository, delivering measurable business value through improved user onboarding and data quality. Demonstrated technologies/skills include documentation authoring, version control collaboration (co-authored commits), and metadata-aware content organization.

October 2025

1 Commits

Oct 1, 2025

Month: 2025-10. Focused on data integrity improvements in the AncientMetagenomeDir repository. Delivered a targeted bug fix to ensure RodriguezVarela2024 reference depth reporting aligns with the expected depth metadata format for the ancient singlegenome host-associated dataset, reducing downstream data inconsistencies and improving reliability for downstream analyses.

June 2025

26 Commits • 8 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025: Key updates to AncientMetagenomeDir focusing on data accuracy, dataset coverage, and release hygiene. Achievements include updated dating data, new dataset entries, and standardized lab metadata, delivering clearer provenance for researchers and streamlined releases.

May 2025

46 Commits • 15 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 performance summary for SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir: Focused on expanding C14 genealogical coverage, enhancing data accuracy, and improving traceability through documentation updates. Delivered significant data integration and host-dits improvements, enabling richer temporal analyses and stronger provenance.

April 2025

41 Commits • 8 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025: Delivered critical data updates and dataset expansions to AncientMetagenomeDir, strengthening data accuracy, metadata integrity, and repository maintainability to enable reliable downstream analyses and reporting for researchers and project stakeholders.

March 2025

111 Commits • 18 Features

Mar 1, 2025

During 2025-03, SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir delivered substantial data curation and quality improvements across host-associated dating datasets, expanded historical dating coverage, and targeted fixes to dataset schemas and radiocarbon sample ID handling. Key outcomes include batch updates to ancientsinglegenome-hostassociated_dates.tsv and related dates, incorporation of C14 Schuenemann2018 data, new historical range dates, calibration curve update, and updated changelog/documentation. These efforts directly enhance dating accuracy, reproducibility, and downstream analyses, while strengthening data governance and engineering practices.

February 2025

68 Commits • 34 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 performance for SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir: Delivered extensive data catalog expansion and quality improvements. Key features delivered include Patrono2022 integration and broad ingestion of C14 radiocarbon datasets across Warinner2014 to deBarrosDamgaard2018, plus multiple targeted C14 data ingestions (Majander2020, Spyrou2018, Schuenemann 2013/2018, Zhou2018.tsv, Sabin2020, Kay2014/2015, and Barquera2020). Data governance and provenance were strengthened via updates to material.json, ancientsinglegenome-hostassociated_dates, and new citations (PattersonRoss2018). Documentation maintained with CHANGELOG updates. Business value: richer, more discoverable dataset enabling robust historical analyses and reproducibility.

January 2025

6 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 monthly summary for SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir. This period focused on data curation and release preparation for Patrono2022, delivering updated samples, corrected metadata, and a comprehensive release notes entry to improve data quality and downstream usability.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness97.2%
Maintainability97.8%
Architecture96.4%
Performance96.4%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSVJSONMarkdownNANoneTSVtsv

Technical Skills

Archaeological DataBioinformaticsBioinformatics Data ManagementConfiguration ManagementData CleaningData CurationData EntryData FormattingData ManagementData ValidationDocumentationGenomics Data ManagementTechnical Writingdata analysisdata entry

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir

Jan 2025 Feb 2026
9 Months active

Languages Used

TSVJSONMarkdownNAtsvNoneCSV

Technical Skills

Data CurationBioinformaticsBioinformatics Data ManagementConfiguration ManagementData EntryData Management