2021 was a record year for the DCN as we transitioned from a grant funded initiative to a membership organization. Our 2021 Annual Report showcases the numerous endeavors the DCN supports, from shared curation to conducting research in Special Interest Groups, active collaborations, and education opportunities. This report also includes an overview of the newly … Continue reading Annual Report 2021: End of Year Highlights of the Data Curation Network
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The DCN is delighted to announce our newest sustaining member: Princeton University! We are pleased to welcome new members from Princeton: Wind Cowles, Matt Chandler, and Neggin Keshavarzian. Wind Cowles will serve on the Governing Board as the institutional representative. Wind has been an active participant in the DCN, as she attended a 2019 CURATE(D) … Continue reading New DCN Partner: Princeton University
As previously announced, the Data Curation Network is partnering Ithaka S+R to build sustainable "Data Communities" to facilitate data sharing and reuse. This spring, DCN representatives Jake Carlson, Joel Herndon, and Lisa Johnston and Ithaka S+R staff Dylan Ruediger and Danielle Cooper, will bring together a cohort of researchers and informational professionals for a two-day … Continue reading Announcing the Participants in an NSF-Funded Incubation Workshop
Mikala Narlock is the Assistant Director of the Data Curation Network-- learn more about her here.
Today's Ingredients Portage Network’s Dataverse Curation Guide Active Curation of Large Longitudinal SurveysData Curation through Catalogs View the recording What is Data Soup? So glad you asked! Data Soup is a collaboration between the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) and the Data Curation Network to host a series of community focused webinars/discussions to exchange practices for … Continue reading Data Soup Webinar Dec 16 @ Noon ET
A guest post by DCN member Wanda Marsolek who warns, "For those of you who are looking for a recap like Roxane Gay’s Outlander recaps in Wired magazine, you're in the wrong place." The Research Data Alliance (RDA) held their 18th Plenary in early November over a week's span or four days (no Fridays, weekends, … Continue reading Recap of RDA’s “Connecting the Dots on Curating for FAIR and Reproducible Research”
Guest post by DCN member Sarah Wright a Research Data & Life Sciences Librarian at Cornell University. I attended the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 18th Plenary Session held Nov. 3, 2021, and went to a session focused on communities of practice (CoPs) around data challenges. Panelists included representatives from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Community for … Continue reading RDA: Facilitating active communities of practice to address data challenges
Looking to advance open research through cross-institutional collaboration? The Data Curation Network (http://DataCurationNetwork.org) is hiring an Assistant Director to help lead our growing community of data curators that empower researchers to publish high quality data in an ethical and FAIR way. Since launching in 2016, the DCN has grown into a sustainable member-driven organization with … Continue reading Assistant Director Job Posting
As part of our NSF research grant to research data sharing in academic institutions, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is recruiting a project manager will assist the research team in answering the following questions: Where are funded researchers sharing their data and what is the quality of that metadataHow are researchers making decisions about … Continue reading Job posting: Project Manager
We wanted to share some results about how data depositors feel about the curation services they receive from our repository staff. In spring 2021, members of the Data Curation Network surveyed 568 researchers who had recently deposited data into one of 6 academic data repositories (see table 1). Our survey in Qualtrics asked respondents to … Continue reading Depositor satisfaction with curation services: Preliminary results