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,…
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…
Wendy is the Data Curation Specialist at Cornell University’s John M. Olin Library and Research Data Management Services Group Coordinator. She also serves as the representative for Cornell on the DCN Governance Board. Wendy was interviewed by Adi Ranganath in October 2021. How did you come to your current position? I had a research associate…
Adi is a Data librarian in the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS) at University of Colorado – Boulder (CU) Libraries. He was interviewed by Dorris Scott in September 2021. How did you come to your current position? I came to my current position from New York University (NYU) Libraries, where I was…
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…
As part of our NSF research grant to research data sharing in academic institutions, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is recruiting a project manager will assist the research team in answering the following questions: Where are funded researchers sharing their data and what is the quality of that metadata How are researchers making decisions…
Dorris is a GIS Librarian and Social Science Data Curator for the Washington University Library. She was interviewed by Xuying Xin in August, 2021. How did you come to your current position? I came to this position because during the last semester of my PhD studies at University of Georgia, I worked at the Map…
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…
The most recent issue of the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) Volume 10, Issue 3 (2021) focused on “Data Curation in Practice” and edited by members of the Data Curation Network (DCN) was just published. Special thanks to the JeSLIB editorial board for expertly shepherding us through this amazing process and to all the authors…
Xuying is a Data Analyst for the Penn State University Libraries. She was interviewed by Melinda Kernik in July, 2021. How did you come to your current position? Before joining the Penn State University Libraries at University Park, I was a research associate in a biomedical lab at another campus of Penn State. While at…