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…
The Data Curation Network in partnership with the National Institutes of Health Office of Data Science Strategy is happy to announce a new training series aimed at helping data curators and information professionals in assisting researchers in making data publicly accessible via repositories. The series will include three workshops throughout the spring and summer of…
Talya Cooper is the Research Curation Librarian at New York University. Talya was interviewed by Neggin Keshavarizan in October 2024. How did you come to your current position? My first position at NYU was a grant funded position as part of a project called Collaborating on Software Archiving For Institutions. The PI was my now-colleague,…
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 intern Jasmine Phillips, as part of DCN’s partnership with the National Center for Data Services (NCDS). These internships are funded with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).* During the summer of 2024, I had the opportunity to intern with the…
In August 2024, thanks to generous funding from the National Institutes of Health Office of Data Science Strategy and the support of MITRE, the DCN hosted the Summit for Academic Institutional Readiness in Data Sharing (STAIRS). Held at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus with the support of the University Libraries, this event drew…
Neggin Keshavarzian is the Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Neggin was interviewed by Lauren Phegley in October 2024. How did you come to your current position? It was kind of serendipitous. I didn’t know that this was a type of job that someone could have. In my previous position, I was a research…
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…
In partnership with the Association of Research Libraries, the University of Minnesota Libraries is seeking a Special Programs Manager to support the Data Curation Network (DCN) and Realities of Academic Data Sharing Initiative (RADS). Through generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-254930-OLS-23), the Special Programs Manager will be funded until July 31, 2026. The minimum salary for this…
This post was authored by intern Kimberly Gisselle Carlo, as part of DCN’s partnership with the National Center for Data Services (NCDS). These internships are funded with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).* I participated in the NNLM National Center for Data Services (NCDS) internship…