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DCN to Develop Nationwide Training on Specialized Data Curation

Members of the Data Curation Network will lead a 2-year, specialized data curation training program. Funded by a $247,379 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, this program will develop and deliver specialized data curation training for library staff and professionals, nationwide. This training will build upon previous efforts of the DCN to…

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DCN Hosts Data Curation Workshop

The IASSIST & Data Curation Network (DCN) hosted a Data Curation Workshop on December 11 & 12, 2017 at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Support from IASSIST, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Minnesota, Cornell University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign brought together approximately 45 professionals to…

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DCN Training Event Sponsored by IASSIST

Supporting researchers with data curation is an important role that information specialists aspire to fill as the workforce transforms to assume greater digital stewardship responsibilities. To address this need, the Data Curation Network partners are holding a data curation training workshop this December hosted by the Social Sciences Librarians at Washington University in St. Louis and generously…

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New presentations uploaded

The DCN team has been busy presenting at conferences this fall. We are posting all slides and posters on our Publications page of the website.  More recently we presented some preliminary results of our researcher engagement activities on which data curation activities researchers value most. The full presentation to the Digital Library Federation meeting in Milwaukee, WI…