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Join us: DCN Retrospective Webinar

This event has passed, but the recording is available. The Data Curation Network has been active since 2016– and in the intervening years, we’ve learned a lot! About curation, about our profession, about ourselves, and about our community.  Following our transition from grant-funded to a sustainable, member-funded organization, we conducted a project retrospective in March…

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NIH-DCN Specialized Curation Workshop Recap

Last week, we had the pleasure to travel to Bethesda, Maryland, to offer a specialized data curation workshop. As part of a collaborative learning series between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Data Curation Network, this workshop brought together individuals from across the United States, in particular institutions with limited curation support. This…

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Presenting the CURATE(D) Online Modules

Thanks to generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Grant  #RE-85-18-0040-18, the DCN is proud to share online training modules that follow our CURATE(D) workshop curriculum. The goal of the CURATE(D) Training, both in person and through these modules, is to offer an introduction to applied data curation. This new, interactive…

Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories: Institutional Repositories and Federally Funded Data Sharing

In May 2022, the National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) released the Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories for Federally Funded Research (DC-DR). As the title suggests, these guidelines are meant to provide funding agencies guidelines to be used when advising researchers on which repositories will meet data sharing and storage requirements. While there are many…

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Now Available: DCN Retrospective Report

We are excited to share that our open access retrospective report is now accessible through Michigan Publishing Services! You can read “The Art, Science, and Magic of the Data Curation Network: A Retrospective on Cross-Institutional Collaboration” now. The open access version is available to use now. Physical copies will be made available for purchase later…

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Trust-based Structures of Collaboration

Edit: The report is now available open access through Michigan Publishing Services. Our retrospective report will be published in just a few weeks! We’re incredibly excited to share it with you all, as we found the process to be rewarding: discussing the process of establishing the cross-institutional collaborations, our success and challenges, and our enabling…