Today we want to share three more new primers published by the DCN! This time, we have three on essential topics for data curators: an Accessibility Checklist, Data and Code Licensing, and OpenRefine Accessibility checklist Brandie Pullen, in collaboration with Rachel Woodbrook, authored this new checklist provides a quick-start approach to help data curators ensure…
We’re excited to share three new data curation primers released by the Data Curation Network, focusing on critical formats and approaches in scientific and cultural data management: FITS (Flexible Image Transport System), TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), and Linked Data. FITS: The Astronomical Data Standard The FITS primer, developed by Lubov McKone, Robyn DeRocchis, and…
This guest blog post was written by OpenRefine Primer authors, Heather Charlotte Owen (University of Rochester, https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1771-366X), Aditi Thite (AVSInfoPro, LLC, https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6193-5407), and Peyton Tvrdy (U.S. Department of Transportation, National Transportation Library, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9720-4725). All attended the April 2023 Data Curation Workshop sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. OpenRefine is a powerful data cleaning and…
Over the past year, members of the Data Curation Network and attendees of our in-person CURATE(D) workshops have developed several data curation primers, which are concise resources designed to provide support for curators in learning about new file formats and disciplines. With these new additions, our library has expanded to a whopping 37 (!!) primers,…
Over the past several months, we have helped publish several amazing data curation primers! We wanted to take a moment to highlight this expansion of our existing primer library. As always, we have made these accessible via GitHub, because we anticipate these will need to be adapted over time. We invite you to review them…
Update: April 4, 2022 After three rounds of voting with a great participation, the subject of our next data curation primer will be: PPKX! This is an ArcGIS format that contains an entire project. From the help website: Project packages (.ppkx files) allow you to share complete projects. A project package is a file that contains…
It’s taken some time, but we’ve published a new set of data curation primers! Many of these were created by participants from our third IMLS funded Specialized Data Curation Workshop which occurred at Washington University in St. Louis on November 5-6, 2019. Many thanks to IMLS for funding this series of workshops through IMLS LB21…
The Data Curation Network hosted a Virtual All Hands Meeting on July 13-17th, 2020. We held the very first “Primer Hackathon” as part of this virtual experience. Our intention was to update the primers created by the cohort from the first IMLS-funded Specialized Data Curation Workshop, which was co-located at the 2018 DLF Forum October…
We are very pleased to invite you to attend our second Primerpalooza webinar event with the International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology, IASSIST! This event will take place on: Wed, Apr 29, 2020 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT To register please visit: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1480598364814615565 The Data Curation Network presents an update…
It’s an exciting time for the Data Curation Network’s educational efforts! Just after our first Specialized Data Curation Workshop, held at DLF in Nov 2018, published the first wave of data curation primers to Github, we are excited to announce that the primer teams from our second workshop are halfway to completion! New data curation…