DCN team members Mara Blake (Johns Hopkins University) and Lisa Johnston (University of Minnesota) presented at this week's National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) conference in Washington DC. This event bring together grants administrators and funding bodies to discuss the challenges and best practices for the field. Mara Blake (right) and Lisa Johnston presented … Continue reading DCN members present on data sharing at 61st annual NCURA meeting
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The Data Curation Network held its 2nd Annual All Hands Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota July 17th - 19th, 2019. This year's meeting was quite a bit larger than last year's with 36 DCN members in attendance representing each of our 10 partner institutions (welcome WashU and NYU!). The all-day business meeting kicked off on Wednesday … Continue reading DCN Holds 2nd Annual All Hands Meeting
It’s an exciting time for the Data Curation Network’s educational efforts! Just after our first Specialized Data Curation Workshop, held at DLF in Nov 2018, published the first wave of data curation primers to Github, we are excited to announce that the primer teams from our second workshop are halfway to completion! New data curation … Continue reading Update from the April 2019 Data Curation Workshop
The Data Curation Network joined our colleagues with the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology for the 2019 IASSIST Conference in Sydney, Australia in late May for a panel dedicated to exploring collaborative efforts to improve data curation and discovery across institutions. Presenting with representatives from the Dataverse Project and Australia's National … Continue reading Data Down Under: the Data Curation Network at IASSIST 2019
“Radical Collaboration In Practice” Part 1 of 2 On July 8, 2019 the DCN members had a wonderful opportunity to present an update on our progress as we entered into Year 2 of our implementation phase. Special thanks to the Research Data Access and Preservation organization for hosting the webinar which attracted over 80 attendees … Continue reading DCN Summer RDAP Webinars
We’ve received a fair amount of interest about the news that NIH is working with Figshare to host a general data repository for NIH-funded research. While we are flattered to be mentioned in the press release, we would like to clarify that the Data Curation Network does not have a formal partnership with Figshare, and … Continue reading Response to Announcement that Figshare is partnering with NIH
The Data Curation Network is pleased to announce its newest partner – New York University! NYU joins the DCN in Year 2 of the Implementation Phase of the Project. Joining the DCN as curator and representative for NYU is Katie Wissel, Data Services Librarian. Katie brings curation expertise in social science and business data. Andrew … Continue reading NYU joins the DCN
The 2019 RDAP Summit took place May 15th - 17th in Coral Gables, Florida. Around 150 people were in attendance - including a few members of the DCN! DCN Project Coordinator, Liza Coburn, was there to present a poster detailing our progress and the early results of both our data curation service and specialized data … Continue reading DCN Presents at 2019 RDAP Summit
We are pleased to announce that the data curation primers from our first specialized data curation workshop are now being published! It has been a wonderful six months working with amazing professionals from over thirty different institutions on this first round of our project! Primer groups formed out of the first of three IMLS-funded Specialized … Continue reading Data Curation Primers Now Available!
The Data Curation Network (DCN) is pleased to announce its newest partner - Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (WashU) - joining the project in Year 2 of the implementation phase which runs through June 2021! The DCN Representative for WashU is none other than Jennifer Moore, Data Services Coordinator and GIS & Anthropology Librarian … Continue reading New Member Washington University in St. Louis