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The Data Curation Network has been active since 2016– and in the intervening years, we’ve learned a lot! About curation, about our profession, about ourselves, and about our community.  Following our transition from grant-funded to a sustainable, member-funded organization, we conducted a project retrospective in March 2022 to better understand what we did well, what … Continue reading Join us: DCN Retrospective Webinar

Last week, we had the pleasure to travel to Bethesda, Maryland, to offer a specialized data curation workshop. As part of a collaborative learning series between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Data Curation Network, this workshop brought together individuals from across the United States, in particular institutions with limited curation support. This … Continue reading NIH-DCN Specialized Curation Workshop Recap

Thanks to generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Grant  #RE-85-18-0040-18, the DCN is proud to share online training modules that follow our CURATE(D) workshop curriculum. CURATE(D) Online Modules The goal of the CURATE(D) Training, both in person and through these modules, is to offer an introduction to applied data curation. … Continue reading Presenting the CURATE(D) Online Modules

In May 2022, the National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) released the Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories for Federally Funded Research (DC-DR). As the title suggests, these guidelines are meant to provide funding agencies guidelines to be used when advising researchers on which repositories will meet data sharing and storage requirements. While there are many … Continue reading Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories: Institutional Repositories and Federally Funded Data Sharing

Our retrospective report will be published this Friday (March 24) through the University of Michigan Press. It has been the result of many hours and many hands. We are incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity and space to reflect on our work in growing the DCN. We would also like to take a moment … Continue reading Community: The Heart of the DCN

Our retrospective report will be published in just a few weeks! We’re incredibly excited to share it with you all, as we found the process to be rewarding: discussing the process of establishing the cross-institutional collaborations, our success and challenges, and our enabling structures, and then distilling the rich conversations into a report helped to … Continue reading Trust-based Structures of Collaboration