The 2020 Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 11-13. DCN project coordinator Liza Coburn and project manager for the IMLS-sponsored specialized data curation workshops Hannah Hadley were both present this year along with many other DCN project members. Unfortunately, due to the global pandemic COVID-19 and at…
Lots of exciting talks, posters, and keynotes at the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 2020 this week in Dublin…and the DCN was well represented! Curators Share their Research Susan Borda presented her work with the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology on storing and sharing vertebrate data. Slides at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3667733. Dave Fearon presented services developed…
DCN team members Mara Blake (Johns Hopkins University) and Lisa Johnston (University of Minnesota) presented at this week’s National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) conference in Washington DC. This event bring together grants administrators and funding bodies to discuss the challenges and best practices for the field. We were invited to present on “data…
The Data Curation Network joined our colleagues with the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology for the 2019 IASSIST Conference in Sydney, Australia in late May for a panel dedicated to exploring collaborative efforts to improve data curation and discovery across institutions. Presenting with representatives from the Dataverse Project and Australia’s National…
The 2019 RDAP Summit took place May 15th – 17th in Coral Gables, Florida. Around 150 people were in attendance – including a few members of the DCN! DCN Project Coordinator, Liza Coburn, was there to present a poster detailing our progress and the early results of both our data curation service and specialized data…
Two DCN members presented at the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) in Melbourne, Australia on February 5, 2019. DCN Curators Debra Fagan and Erin Clary, both from Dryad, developed the presentation “The Data curation Network: A Curator’s Perspective.” Fagan and DCN PI Lisa Johnston co-presented the talk. The audience asked several great questions, such as:…
The Administrative Data Research Facilities Network recently posted a wonderful review of the first Specialized Data Curation Network Workshop held in conjunction with the 2018 Digital Library Federation Forum in Henderson Nevada last month. The post, “Data Curation Network Hosts First Specialized Workshop”, can be viewed on their blog. Thanks to Monica King and the ADRF team!…
DCN members Wendy Kozlowski, Data Curation Specialist at Cornell University, and Jake Carlson, Research Data Services Manager at the University of Michigan, presented on the Data Curation Network planning phase and future work at the Research Data Access, and Preservation (RDAP) Summit in Chicago, IL on March 22, 2018. Check out the information packed slides,…
The implementation phase of the DCN was presented at the international meeting of research data stakeholders at the 11th plenary of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) in Berlin Germany March 21-23, 2018. See our beautiful poster! Poster: Implementing a Cross-Institutional Staffing Model for Curating Research Data
The Data Curation Network team is excited to present at the IASSIST conference this week in Lawrence KS! We will give a panel Wednesday morning on Perception vs Practice in providing data curation activities where we share our research findings on what libraries say they do for data curation vs. what researchers find most important….