The 2020 Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 11-13. DCN project coordinator Liza Coburn and project manager for the IMLS-sponsored specialized data curation workshops Hannah Hadley were both present this year along with many other DCN project members. Unfortunately, due to the global pandemic COVID-19 and at … Continue reading DCN at RDAP 2020
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We'd like to share the Data Curation Network (DCN) response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy request for public comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research posted January 17, 2020 as document 85 FR 3085 in the Federal Register. Our team, … Continue reading DCN Responds to the US Request for Public Comment on Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories
When the DCN started as an idea back in 2016, we knew that this project had the potential to quickly grow and attract interest from a wide range of stakeholders. And today, thanks to the ongoing support of the Alfred P Sloan foundation, we have been successful so far in planning and implementing a pilot … Continue reading New Report: Sustainability Plan for the Data Curation Network
Lots of exciting talks, posters, and keynotes at the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 2020 this week in Dublin...and the DCN was well represented! Curators Share their Research Susan Borda presented her work with the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology on storing and sharing vertebrate data. Slides at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3667733. Dave Fearon presented services developed … Continue reading DCN at the International Digital Curation Conference 2020
Remember 2019? This was our first year of piloting our collaborative data curation service in the Data Curation Network. Our 10 partner institutions submitted 74 datasets from their overall deposits that year (see below) to be matched with a data curator with domain and software expertise. And 95% of these datasets were successfully matched to … Continue reading January was a busy month – here’s why!
Back in 2017, several members of the Data Curation Network participated in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Data Curation Spec Kit, a survey asking the 124 ARL institutions across the United States and Canada to self-assess their data repository and curation services. Three years later, institutional support for data sharing is as relevant as ever. For … Continue reading Academic ARL institutions have published 24,178 datasets…
Dryad just posted an announcement seeking curation help: https://blog.datadryad.org/jobs/. According to Associate Director Elizabeth Hull: "The opportunity is fully remote and offers flexible scheduling. We're open to part-time and full-time, and will consider applications from current grad students. It's an exciting time to join Dryad. We recently launched a new platform and are looking forward to … Continue reading Dryad is Hiring!
Our third specialized data curation workshop took place on November 5th and 6th of 2019 at Washington University in St. Louis. In attendance were twenty-eight professionals from twenty-five different institutions! Our instructors for the event included: Cynthia Hudson Vitale - Pennsylvania State UniversityLisa Johnston - University of MinnesotaJennifer Moore - Washington University in St.LouisWendy Kozlowski … Continue reading Update from the November 2019 Specialized Data Curation Workshop
Last month, our friends Jay Brodeur (McMaster) and Lee Wilson (ACENET/Portage) from the Portage Network organized the first Canadian Data Curation Forum held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario October 16-18, 2019. Cynthia Hudson Vitale and Lisa Johnston were invited to give a talk and share in this exciting development. We also taught a mini-workshop on … Continue reading DCN helps to foster a Canadian data curation network
The Data Curation Network is pleased to share a new set of data visualizations charting our progress! These charts display datasets submitted to the Network since the launch of our pilot service in January 2019, as well as the range of technical and disciplinary expertise within the network. They will update dynamically as we receive … Continue reading Visualizing DCN Expertise and Impact