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Diving Into OpenRefine: Creating a Tool-Based Primer

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…

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Data Curation Primer Webinars: New in 2023

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,…

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New data curation primers!

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…

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Primer Hackathon at the 2020 DCN Virtual All Hands Meeting

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…

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Announcing the Second DCN Primerpalooza Webinar!

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…

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Update from the April 2019 Data Curation Workshop

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…

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Data Curation Primers Now Available!

We are pleased to announce that the data curation primers from our first specialized data curation workshop are now being published! It has been a wonderful six months working with amazing professionals from over thirty different institutions on this first round of our project! Primer groups formed out of the first of three IMLS-funded Specialized…