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Data Soup Webinar Dec 16 @ Noon ET

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

Recap of RDA’s “Connecting the Dots on Curating for FAIR and Reproducible Research”

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”

RDA: Facilitating active communities of practice to address data challenges 

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 

Assistant Director Job Posting

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

Depositor satisfaction with curation services: Preliminary results

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