This is a guest post from Jon Petters, Assistant Director of Data Management and Curation Services at Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech has been a part of the DCN for a couple of years now – and with two additional curators on our team (Padma Carstens and Brandie Pullen) we are excited to finally take advantage…
Over the past several months, we have helped publish several amazing data curation primers! We wanted to take a moment to highlight this expansion of our existing primer library. As always, we have made these accessible via GitHub, because we anticipate these will need to be adapted over time. We invite you to review them…
In April, we shared our new research project, “Sustaining Open Research: Institutional Repository Readiness,” which focuses on supporting IRs that share data in demonstrating alignment with and evaluation of the Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories for Federally Funded Research (DC-DR). As part of this work, we are hosting a series of virtual learning days that…
We are just three weeks away from our annual All Hands Meeting festivities— to be held in-person for the first time since 2019! We are incredibly excited to see many familiar and new faces at our host institution, Princeton University, at the end of June. In a previous post, we shared a high-level schedule. Today,…
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…
Sarah Wright is a Research Data and Life Sciences Librarian at Cornell University. Sarah was interviewed by Laura Bowman in April 2023. Can you tell us a little bit about how you came to your current position? I have a Master’s in Botany that is really more geared toward biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology….
Laura Bowman is a Data Curator at DRYAD. Laura was interviewed by Yasir Karim in March 2023. Can you tell us a little bit about how you came to your current position? I have my masters in accounting, and I was an auditor for six years. I then went into Higher Education and did financial…
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…
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…
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…