Over the course of many months, members of the Data Curation Network have revised the CURATE(D) workflow, and are delighted to share it with everyone! The revised workflow now includes: A preamble, that includes information about how to use the CURATE(D) steps, in particular the iterative nature of curation and prompting questions to consider whether…
Matt Chandler is a Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Matt was interviewed by Sandi Caldrone in March 2022. How did you come to your current position? I started at the Princeton Research Data Service (PRDS) in November 2019. Before this, I was a researcher. I completed my PhD at Notre Dame in a…
Lisa Johnston, DCN’s Director, has accepted a new position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Data Management and Analytics Services as the Director of Data Governance. While her leadership style and strong advocacy for those around her will be missed, she has agreed to continue serving on the Governance Board– she will bring a…
The Data Curation Network has been selected as a case study on research data management collaboration as part of OCLC’s Library Collaboration in RDM series. The DCN joins Portage and the Texas Data Repository in this project. DCN members have volunteered their time to serve as interview participants to discuss both the history of the DCN…
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…
The members of the Racial Justice Working Group of the Data Curation Network (DCN) as well as other DCN volunteers collectively submitted feedback on the on the draft of “Cultural Proficiencies For Racial Equity: A Framework,” created by the Joint ALA/ARL Building Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity Framework Task Force. The following is an excerpt…
Sandi Caldrone is a Research Data Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Sandi was interviewed by Nicholas Wolf in February 2022. How did you come to your current position? This is kind of like a career second act for me. I originally studied cultural anthropology and was really interested in applied anthropology, which uses…
The DCN is delighted to announce our newest sustaining member, and one of the founding members of the DCN: Washington University in St. Louis! We are pleased to welcome new members from WashU, Jennifer Moore and Dr. Dorris Scott. Jennifer Moore will serve on the Governing Board as the institutional representative. Jennifer has been involved…
Nicholas Wolf is a Research Data Management Librarian at New York University (NYU). Nicholas was interviewed by Wendy Kozlowski in December 2021. How did you come to your current position? I came to the position from a faculty position in the same university, where I was working as a digital humanist but also a historian….
The Data Curation Network is proud to release our Strategic Framework (living document). This three year “living” strategic framework outlines our vision for continued growth while further cementing our sustainability as a trusted and member-driven organization within the open research community. The Strategic Framework builds on the DCN’s Sustainability and Transition Plan (released Nov 2020),…