The DCN Team is happy to have been selected as the first ARL survey of 2017 cycle! If you are at an ARL Institution, please check-in with your ARL liaison to be sure that your institution is represented in this survey on Data Curation Services. Responses are being accepted through January 31, 2017.  Please note that the results will be released openly and our webinar details are below!

Website:http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/statistics-assessment/spec-surveys.

Data Curation, SPEC Kit 354

Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Washington University in St. Louis Libraries; Heidi Imker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lisa R. Johnston, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Libraries; Jake Carlson, University of Michigan Library; Wendy Kozlowski, Cornell University; Robert Olendorf, Pennsylvania State University; and Claire Stewart, University of Minnesota

The purpose of this survey is to uncover the current infrastructure (policy and technical) at ARL member institutions for data curation, explore the current level of demand for data curation services, and discover any challenges that institutions are currently facing regarding providing these services.

Webcast: Wednesday, June 14, 2017, 1:00–1:45 p.m. eastern daylight time

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