In December 2024, the Data Curation Network became a Network member of the World Data System (WDS). 🎉 The WDS, through the International Program Office (IPO) and International Technology Office (ITO), connects generalist, disciplinary, and institutional repositories, researchers, and organizations around the world, all committed to ensuring FAIR data. Through its resources, such as metadata…
The Data Curation Network in partnership with the National Institutes of Health Office of Data Science Strategy is happy to announce a new training series aimed at helping data curators and information professionals in assisting researchers in making data publicly accessible via repositories. The series will include three workshops throughout the spring and summer of…
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 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 Mikala Narlock, DCN Director. In May 2024, I had the opportunity to attend the NoCTURN All Network Meeting, held at the University of Florida in Gainesville. I am incredibly grateful to the planning committee for the kind invitation to present at and attend the meeting, especially project PIs Morgan Chase,…
EDIT: Applications closed on May 17. Thanks to all who applied! Set your calendars – the Summit for Academic Institutional Readiness in Data Sharing (STAIRS) will be held August 5-6 2024 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities! The STAIRS team is also delighted to announce that applications for the summit are open now through…
The Data Curation Network and the members of the Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative are pleased to announce the expansion of the RADS project to include additional institutions. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the DCN are seeking five US-based academic libraries to join a research project focused on understanding the costs…
The Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative entered its second phase of funding in July 2023, thanks to support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Since that time the team has been hard at work, reviewing outputs of the first phase funded by the National Sciences Foundation, and preparing for the…
A new OCLC report “Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration” explores how multi-institutional collaborations expand services for data sharing. Authors Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, and Amanda K. Rinehart conducted in-depth interviews with participants in three collaborative research data management efforts: the Texas Data Repository, Portage (now within the Digital Research…
Since our launch as a member-funded organization in July 2021, the DCN has worked diligently to continue expanding our membership. While we are very proud of that transition and view it as a success we have continued to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of our membership model. We recognize that we must balance the…