Sophia Lafferty-Hess is a Senior Research Data Management Consultant at Duke University. Sophia was interviewed by Seth Erickson in August, 2019. How did you come to your current position? I got involved in data curation and data management during graduate school at UNC. I did an internship at the Odum Institute for Research in Social…
Our third specialized data curation workshop took place on November 5th and 6th of 2019 at Washington University in St. Louis. In attendance were twenty-eight professionals from twenty-five different institutions! Our instructors for the event included: Cynthia Hudson Vitale – Pennsylvania State University Lisa Johnston – University of Minnesota Jennifer Moore – Washington University in…
DCN-35: SNP Genotyping Data for the Barley Population in “Registration of the S2MET Barley Mapping Population for Multi-Environment Genomewide Selection”, a crop sciences code and genomics dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Valerie Collins and curated by Erin Clary. Although this was a good quality dataset, Erin had significant recommendations related to expanding documentation,…
Seth Erickson is the Software Curation Librarian and CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. Seth was interviewed by Chen Chiu in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I did my PhD in Information Studies at UCLA. I studied researcher software development practices. I’d been interested in this area for…
DCN-49: Silver-ableC: a Silver extension for writing ableC specifications, a computer sciences code dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Wanda Marsolek and curated by Debra Fagan. Wanda submitted this dataset looking for both technical and disciplinary expertise, and Debra was a perfect match! Debra’s suggestions included creating additional documentation in the form of a…
Last month, our friends Jay Brodeur (McMaster) and Lee Wilson (ACENET/Portage) from the Portage Network organized the first Canadian Data Curation Forum held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario October 16-18, 2019. Cynthia Hudson Vitale and Lisa Johnston were invited to give a talk and share in this exciting development. We also taught a mini-workshop on…
Chen Chiu is a Data Management Consultant at Johns Hopkins University. Chen was interviewed by Hoa Luong in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I was doing a postdoc at Johns Hopkins and wanted to transition into a full-time position. I applied for this data management position and was hired!…
DCN-59: Verasonics Processing Test Data, a biomedical engineering MATLAB dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Sophia Lafferty-Hess and curated by Susan Borda. Sophia submitted this dataset looking for technical and disciplinary expertise, and Susan was the best fit! Susan reported that this was a good quality dataset, and her only recommendation was that the…
Hoa Luong is the Assistant Director of Research Data Curation for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hoa was interviewed by Jennifer Moore in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I received my MLIS from UIUC and then I got a position in the Engineering Library at the University of…
DCN-39: “Data repository for: In vitro evolution of herpes simplex virus 1(HSV-1)”, a biochemistry genomic dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Seth Erickson and curated by Sarah Wright. Seth submitted this dataset to the DCN for technical expertise and Sarah was the best fit. Sarah reported that this was a good-quality dataset and her…