This post was authored by Jen Darragh (Duke University), Shawna Taylor (ARL), and Mikala Narlock (DCN). In 2024, advocacy emerged as a focal point of external DCN activities, with members drawing on years of collaboration and expertise to emphasize the essential role of institutional repositories and professional data curation expertise. From surveying researchers and repository…
This post was authored by Mikala Narlock, DCN Director. When the DCN was spinning up 9 years ago, our principal investigator created the Google Drive Folder that would grow to be the nervous system of the DCN, tracking grants, curation, workshops, primers, research–you name it, it was likely in our Google Drive Folder.1 The benefits…
This post was authored by Matthew Murray 🦇 (CU Boulder), Fernando Rios (University of Arizona), and Seth Erickson (UCSB). When you’ve used computers long enough you’ve probably come across some files or folders (henceforth called directories) that don’t look quite right. The names are similar to, though not exactly the same as, other files and…
This post was authored by intern Jodecy Guerra, as part of a semester-long intern with the DCN Spring 2024. This post was edited by Shawna Taylor and Mikala Narlock. Introduction As a spring 2024 intern with the Data Curation Network (DCN), I had the opportunity to explore how data curation enhances data reuse. While the…
This post was authored by Shanda Hunt, Research Data Education and Outreach librarian (Left), and Alicia Hofelich Mohr, Research Support Coordinator (Right), both at the University of Minnesota. This is the story of policy development. As federal data sharing mandates change and grow, we thought our experience of adding a new policy may be timely…
As part of our NSF research grant to research data sharing in academic institutions, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is recruiting a project manager will assist the research team in answering the following questions: Where are funded researchers sharing their data and what is the quality of that metadata How are researchers making decisions…
Dryad just posted an announcement seeking curation help: https://blog.datadryad.org/jobs/. According to Associate Director Elizabeth Hull: “The opportunity is fully remote and offers flexible scheduling. We’re open to part-time and full-time, and will consider applications from current grad students. It’s an exciting time to join Dryad. We recently launched a new platform and are looking forward to…