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This post, by RADS Project Manager Shawna Taylor, provides an update on their recent in-person meeting. Stay up to date with the RADS project at the ARL project page. Background In April 2022, the Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative project team met in-person at the offices of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). … Continue reading RADS x DCN: It Takes a Network to Work

The Data Curation Network is, at its core, a robust community of practice; a key benefit of this community of practice is the ability to have open and candid conversations about our current practices and challenges, as well as future goals. This is important for our organization– for building trust in one another and advancing … Continue reading Peer-Compare in the DCN: Research Data Preservation Practices

Edited to add: Recording is now available! Today's Ingredients Plain text and character encoding: A primer for data curators(Hyper)active data curation: A video case study from behavioral scienceResponding to reality: Evolving curation practices and infrastructure at the University of Illinois What is Data Soup? So glad you asked! Data Soup is a collaboration between the Journal … Continue reading Data Soup Webinar: Friday, May 13

Over the course of many months, members of the Data Curation Network have revised the CURATE(D) workflow, and are delighted to share it with everyone! The revised workflow now includes: A preamble, that includes information about how to use the CURATE(D) steps, in particular the iterative nature of curation and prompting questions to consider whether … Continue reading Presenting the CURATE(D) Workflow, version 2.0

Lisa Johnston, DCN’s Director, has accepted a new position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Data Management and Analytics Services as the Director of Data Governance. While her leadership style and strong advocacy for those around her will be missed, she has agreed to continue serving on the Governance Board– she will bring a … Continue reading DCN Leadership Transition

The Data Curation Network has been selected as a case study on research data management collaboration as part of OCLC's Library Collaboration in RDM series. The DCN joins Portage and the Texas Data Repository in this project. DCN members have volunteered their time to serve as interview participants to discuss both the history of the DCN … Continue reading DCN Participates in OCLC Library Collaboration Research Project

Update: April 4, 2022 After three rounds of voting with a great participation, the subject of our next data curation primer will be: PPKX! This is an ArcGIS format that contains an entire project. From the help website: Project packages (.ppkx files) allow you to share complete projects. A project package is a file that contains … Continue reading DCN Presents: Data Curation March Madness

The members of the Racial Justice Working Group of the Data Curation Network (DCN) as well as other DCN volunteers collectively submitted feedback on the on the draft of “Cultural Proficiencies For Racial Equity: A Framework," created by the Joint ALA/ARL Building Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity Framework Task Force. The following is an excerpt … Continue reading DCN Responds to Cultural Proficiencies For Racial Equity: A Framework