The Data Curation Network held six focus groups in the fall of 2016 and asked 91 researchers from a wide variety of disciplines: how would you rate the “importance” of a variety of key data curation activities. Our preliminary results for the importance ranking of 35 data curation activities are presented in the table below….
The DCN team has been busy! We just completed a pilot where each team member curated the same dataset with local curatorial actions to compare and contrast our practices. The results will allow us to define how data might successfully flow through the Network! One idea of the DCN Model looks like this…
The next step in the DCN project timeline involves hosting engagement activities where we ask researchers: what are the most important data curation activities for you data? Why? Our list of curation activities is now in the publications section of our website. For example, Wendy and I met with Cornell Researchers on Friday and heard that…