“Radical Collaboration In Practice” Part 1 of 2 On July 8, 2019 the DCN members had a wonderful opportunity to present an update on our progress as we entered into Year 2 of our implementation phase. Special thanks to the Research Data Access and Preservation organization for hosting the webinar which attracted over 80 attendees…
We’re excited to announce that after months of testing the Data Curation Network is officially in production! We’re now curating data sets submitted from Network partner institutions with our unique cross-institutional curation service. This is a significant milestone for the project, which is currently in its first year of a three-year implementation phase (2018-2021) supported…
The Data Curation Network project team released two new reports this week. The first shares the results of six focus group sessions with researchers on their perceptions, use, and barriers of data curation activities. In total we engaged 91 researchers from across our institutions U. of Minnesota, Cornell, Penn State, U of Illinois, U of…
Community is fundamental to the Data Curation Network (DCN). We are librarians, curators, and archivists who strongly believe that as a community we can leverage our distributed curation or domain expertise to enhance and curate the research data being created at our institutions. To achieve a shared staffing model for the curation of datasets, the…