We are excited to announce that the Data Curation Network will collaborate with Ithaka S+R on their recently awarded grant from the National Science Foundation to support the development of infrastructures for data sharing within data communities. The project will bring together scientists and information technology professionals for focused discussions about initiating and sustaining data…
Last week the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) released their “Guide to Accelerate Public Access to Research Data” to prompt campus discussions on how their institution might improve public access to data resulting from federally funded research and open science. The Data Curation Network applauds this…
Members of the Data Curation Network met with the Portage Curation Expert Group on March 26, 2021 for a joint meet-up to discuss potential future collaborations. To kick-off the event, Portage executive director Jeff Moon introduced the history and work of the Canadian based Portage Network which has recently joined NDRIO. Portage helps researchers meet…
This post is part of our Curators Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Curator. The series grew out of a community-building activity wherein curators at our ten partner organizations interview each other “chain-letter style” in order to get to know each other and their work outside of the DCN better. We…
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…
The Data Curation Network has co-signed a statement by COAR that provided a response to “Data Repository Selection: Criteria that Matter,” a set of criteria or features proposed by a group of journals, journal publishers and scholarly communication organisations. We recognize that determining or recommending where data should be archived is a challenge for researchers,…
Deadline Extended: Submissions due March 25, 2021 April 8, 2021 Share your data curation expertise, ideas, and experiences! Funders and research communities increasingly require that data sets arising from sponsored research must be preserved and shared, and many publishers either require or encourage that data sets accompanying articles are made available for reuse and reproducibility…
Our team from the Data Curation Network seeks input from users, staff, curators, and directors at US-based data repositories (disciplinary, government, institutional, and general) to help us better understand (1) the level of data curation provided by your data repository and (2) what you perceive as the most important value-add that data curation has on…
The Data Curation Network has just reached a major milestone in our three-year implementation phase, funded by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, by publishing the Data Curation Network’s Sustainability and Transition Plan on our publications page. Download the Data Curation Network Sustainability and Transition Plan from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/225741. The main…
This past May we anonymously surveyed 24 DCN curators (19 responded before the deadline) to learn about their satisfaction and level of engagement with the Network. Over the summer, we analyzed the results, addressed feedback where we could, and incorporated it into our planning for the final year of our implementation grant phase (ending June…