Deadline Extended: Submissions due March 25, 2021 April 8, 2021 Share your data curation expertise, ideas, and experiences! Funders and research communities increasingly require that data sets arising from sponsored research must be preserved and shared, and many publishers either require or encourage that data sets accompanying articles are made available for reuse and reproducibility … Continue reading Call for submissions to the JeSLIB Special Issue: “Data Curation in Practice”
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Our team from the Data Curation Network seeks input from users, staff, curators, and directors at US-based data repositories (disciplinary, government, institutional, and general) to help us better understand (1) the level of data curation provided by your data repository and (2) what you perceive as the most important value-add that data curation has on … Continue reading What value does data curation add to the data sharing process? Tell us!
The Data Curation Network has just reached a major milestone in our three-year implementation phase, funded by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, by publishing the Data Curation Network's Sustainability and Transition Plan on our publications page. Download the Data Curation Network Sustainability and Transition Plan from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/225741. The main … Continue reading Data curation network meets a major milestone
This past May we anonymously surveyed 24 DCN curators (19 responded before the deadline) to learn about their satisfaction and level of engagement with the Network. Over the summer, we analyzed the results, addressed feedback where we could, and incorporated it into our planning for the final year of our implementation grant phase (ending June … Continue reading Assessing Curator Satisfaction – A DCN Report
Post by Sophia Lafferty-Hess, DCN Curator at Duke University. In a recent Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communications article, curation and repository staff from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shared the outputs of a “thought exercise” to conceptualize data curation activities within our individual institutional contexts. This exercise was part … Continue reading Conceptualizing Curation: Curation, is Curation, is Curation
We're pleased to announce the publication of a new paper in the Journal of eScience Librarianship: Testing Our Assumptions: Preliminary Results from the Data Curation Network! In the paper we describe the assumptions our team held prior to launching the Data Curation Network, as described in our 2017 planning phase report "A Cross-Institutional Staffing Model … Continue reading Research results of piloting the DCN now published!
The Data Curation Network hosted a Virtual All Hands Meeting on July 13-17th, 2020. We held the very first “Primer Hackathon” as part of this virtual experience. Our intention was to update the primers created by the cohort from the first IMLS-funded Specialized Data Curation Workshop, which was co-located at the 2018 DLF Forum October … Continue reading Primer Hackathon at the 2020 DCN Virtual All Hands Meeting
Due to the global pandemic COVID-19 we held the 3rd annual Data Curation Network “All Hands Meeting” virtually this year! We hoped to ensure optimal attendance and participation this way and were very conscious of the added stress, distraction and fatigue we’ve all been experiencing lately. Therefore, instead of 2+ full conference days, we opted … Continue reading DCN 3rd Annual All Hands Meeting – the Virtual One!
The Data Curation Network (DCN) is pleased to announce its newest partners – Virginia Tech and the University of California Santa Barbara – joining the project in Year 3 of the implementation phase which runs until June 2021! Virginia Tech is represented by Jonathan Petters, Assistant Director of Data Management and Curation Services. Jonathan will … Continue reading Introducing New DCN Partners Virginia Tech and UC-Santa Barbara!
We are very pleased to invite you to attend our second Primerpalooza webinar event with the International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology, IASSIST! This event will take place on: Wed, Apr 29, 2020 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT To register please visit: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1480598364814615565 The Data Curation Network presents an update … Continue reading Announcing the Second DCN Primerpalooza Webinar!