Professional development for an emerging data curator community

Upcoming Workshops

2022

July 19, 2022 12:00-3:00pm Eastern Towards Authenticity: Critical Appraisal of Data Management Plans Sponsored by NIH/NLM This workshop, geared towards program officers, will be an introduction to the many considerations of research data management and sharing, specifically around the role of data management plans (DMPs) in grant proposals. In addition to learning how to evaluate DMPs from the perspective of a data curator, attendees will learn how their roles fit into the entirety of the research data lifecycle, will learn how to balance sharing sensitive data while protecting participant privacy, and will brainstorm ways to integrate best practices for DMPs into the grant proposal process. This session will combine lecture, activities, and discussion — attendees should come prepared to participate. This is part of the Data Curation Network / NIH Event series.

Past Workshops

2017-2019

November 5-6, 2019
Specialized Data Curation Workshop #3, WashU, St. Louis, MO
Sponsored by IMLS and Washington University in St. Louis

28 attendees
1.5 day format
5 data types explored
Primers authored from this workshop cohort are in development.

October 18-19, 2019
DCN Curate Model, Canadian Data Curation Forum, Hamilton, ON
Sponsored by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Portage Network in collaboration with McMaster University Library

22 attendees
3 hour format
1 data type explored

April 17-18, 2019
Specialized Data Curation Workshop #2, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Sponsored by IMLS and Johns Hopkins University

27 attendees
1.5 day format, 5 data types explored
Primers authored from this workshop cohort
Acrobat PDF Primer
ATLAS.ti Primer
Confocal Microscopy Image Primer
GeoJSON Primer
STL Primer
R Primer
Tableau Primer

October 17-18, 2018
Specialized Data Curation Workshop #1, DLF 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Sponsored by the IMLS and hosted in conjunction with the Digital Library Federation Forum (DLF)

22 attendees
1.5 day format, 5 data types explored
Primers authored from this workshop cohort
- Geodatabases Primer
- Jupyter Notebooks Primer
- Microsoft Access Primer
- Microsoft Excel Primer
- netCDF tutorial (based on netCDF primer)
- SPSS Primer
- WordPress.com Primer

July 24-25, 2018
DCN Curators’ Workshop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Sponsored by the Sloan Foundation and hosted in conjunction with the 2018 DCN All Hands Meeting

21 DCN Data Curators
1.5 day format, flipped classroom style (webinar lecture before in person session), 4 data types explored
Outputs from this workshop
- Data curation software tools list
- netCDF Primer (This was the first primer authored by DCN Curator Susan Borda et al. and set the template for future work!)

December 11-12, 2017
Data Curation Workshop, Washington University in St Louis
Sponsored by IASSIST, Washington University and DCN partner institutions

40 librarians and data curators in attendance
1.5 day format, 5 data types explored

About DCN Curator Workshops

Workshops are taught by Data Curation Network instructors and have reached over 150 attendees from more than 100 academic libraries, national agencies, museums, and beyond. Get in touch if you would like to organize a workshop for your staff!

All of our workshops teach the CURATED steps that were developed in the planning phase of the DCN and updated with each iteration of the workshop.

Learning Objectives

Increase understanding of data curation practices and tools in various disciplines, data types, and formats.
Share expertise and enhance curation capacity for librarians nationwide.
Meet like-minded colleagues who are interested in building and extending curation practices at their institutions.

Outcomes

Attendees work over a 6 month period to develop a Data Curation Primers that details the curation steps for a particular data type. Primers developed by past workshop attendees are published in GitHub and in our project repository for open access and reuse.

Presentations

Data Curation Primers: Expanding the community curation toolkit (slides), webinar hosted by DataOne September 10, 2019.

Primerpalooza: Introducing Data Curation Primers, RDAP webinar July 22, 2019.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Grant #RE-85-18-0040-18 sponsoring this work.

Go to the IMLS project website ➚

Special thanks to DCN Team members Cynthia Hudson Vitale and Hannah Hadley for leading this effort!