We are the Data Curation Network
As professional data curators, data management experts, data repository administrators, disciplinary scientists and scholars we represent academic institutions and non-profit data repositories that steward research data for future use.
What we do
We strive to build a trusted community-led network of curators advancing open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and understandable.
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Our Values
Open. We share data curation techniques that are practical, transparent and available to all.
Trusted. We add value to data while maintaining data integrity and upholding the ethical responsibilities of data sharing.
Inclusive. We foster an accessible and welcoming environment to equitably support all participants.
Collaborative. We build an innovative community of practice for data curation.
Empowering. We advocate for data professionals by providing a pipeline for training data curators, promoting data curation practices and enriching capacities for data curation writ large.
Recent blog posts
Driving change and changing our Drive: Migrating from a Google Folder to a Shared Drive
This post was authored by Mikala Narlock, DCN Director. When the DCN was spinning up 9 years ago, our principal investigator created the Google Drive Folder that would grow to be the nervous system of the DCN, tracking grants, curation, workshops, primers, research–you name it, it was likely in our Google Drive Folder.1 The benefits…
Exploring Data Curation: Tools, Techniques, and AI in Summer Internship at NCDS
This post was authored by intern Jasmine Phillips, as part of DCN’s partnership with the National Center for Data Services (NCDS). These internships are funded with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).* During the summer of 2024, I had the opportunity to intern with the…
Final STAIRS Report Published
In August 2024, thanks to generous funding from the National Institutes of Health Office of Data Science Strategy and the support of MITRE, the DCN hosted the Summit for Academic Institutional Readiness in Data Sharing (STAIRS). Held at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus with the support of the University Libraries, this event drew…
Get to Know DCN Curator Neggin Keshavarzian!
Neggin Keshavarzian is the Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Neggin was interviewed by Lauren Phegley in October 2024. How did you come to your current position? It was kind of serendipitous. I didn’t know that this was a type of job that someone could have. In my previous position, I was a research…
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