The DCN is delighted to announce our newest sustaining members: Carnegie Mellon University and the University of New Mexico! We are pleased to welcome new members from Carnegie Mellon University: Alfredo González-Espinoza is the Research and Data Services Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. Alfredo has a background/expertise in Complex Systems and interdisciplinary research. Outside…
Lauren Phegley is the Research Data Engineer at the University of Pennsylvania. Lauren was interviewed by Halle Burns in August 2024. How did you come to your current position? I came to the University of Pennsylvania from graduate school. I worked at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in their Research Data Service in the…
This post was authored by intern Jodecy Guerra, as part of a semester-long intern with the DCN Spring 2024. This post was edited by Shawna Taylor and Mikala Narlock. Introduction As a spring 2024 intern with the Data Curation Network (DCN), I had the opportunity to explore how data curation enhances data reuse. While the…
This post is a spin-off of our Curators’ Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Advisory or Governance Board member. Get to know the colleagues at the DCN that help keep our operations going! Tim McGeary, Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Technology, Duke University, DCN Advisory Board Chair, was interviewed…
This post was authored by Erin Clary, Curation Coordinator at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (Alliance), and Mikala Narlock, Director, Data Curation Network. Mikala: I recently had the privilege of co-presenting a CURATE(D) workshop at the 2024 IASSIST & CARTO Conference with Sophia Lafferty-Hess. We traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and gave an abbreviated…
This post was authored by Trisha Adamus, Research Data Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As the newest curator to attend the Data Curation Network (DCN) All Hands Meeting (AHM) at Duke University in May 2024, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Some of the schools represented had been part of the initial cohort and…
This post was authored by Heidi Imker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and Joel Herndon, Duke University. As data curators, we spend much of our time and energy preparing research data for publication. While there are many reasons for curating research data, one is the potential for reuse. Data deposits of growing complexity and…
This post was authored by Peter Cerda, Data Curation Specialist for Workflows and Big Data at the University of Michigan. It is hard to believe that my first DCN All Hands was over two months ago! As a new curator and member of the DCN, I had been counting down the days till I could…
This post was authored by Jen Darragh, Senior Research Data Management Consultant at Duke University. It’s hard to believe it’s already July (seriously if someone could tell me where May and June went I’d love to hear it), and I promised I would write a reflection on what planning and hosting the 7th DCN All…
This post was authored by Brandie Pullen, Resident Librarian – Data Curation at Virginia Tech and Curator at Large, July 2023-June 2025. This year’s Data Curation Network’s All Hands Meeting was held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. As someone with chronic illnesses and disabilities, I didn’t know if I’d be able to make…