The DCN team has been busy! We just completed a pilot where each team member curated the same dataset with local curatorial actions to compare and contrast our practices. The results will allow us to define how data might successfully flow through the Network!
One idea of the DCN Model looks like this…
Post by Sophia Lafferty-Hess, DCN Curator at Duke University. In a recent Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communications article, curation and repository staff from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shared the outputs of a “thought exercise” to conceptualize data curation activities within our individual institutional contexts. This exercise was part…
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…
As we prepare for the webinar on the results of surveying 124 ARL institutions, we find that there is so much interesting data to share….and not enough time to discuss. For example, how do (n=51) ARL libraries support 47 data curation activities? See the results below! Raw data is attached and read the full report…
The Data Curation Network project team released two new reports this week. The first shares the results of six focus group sessions with researchers on their perceptions, use, and barriers of data curation activities. In total we engaged 91 researchers from across our institutions U. of Minnesota, Cornell, Penn State, U of Illinois, U of…
Over the course of many months, members of the Data Curation Network have revised the CURATE(D) workflow, and are delighted to share it with everyone! The revised workflow now includes: A preamble, that includes information about how to use the CURATE(D) steps, in particular the iterative nature of curation and prompting questions to consider whether…
The following was adapted from a presentation by Wind Cowles, Associate Dean for Data, Research, and Teaching at Princeton University, and Mikala Narlock, Director of the Data Curation Network based at the University of Minnesota. This was presented on October 19, 2023 during a workshop titled, “Developing New Approaches to Promote Equitable and Inclusive Implementation…