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…
Post by Sophia Lafferty-Hess, DCN Curator at Duke University. In a recent Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communications article, curation and repository staff from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shared the outputs of a “thought exercise” to conceptualize data curation activities within our individual institutional contexts. This exercise was part…
We’re pleased to announce the publication of a new paper in the Journal of eScience Librarianship: Testing Our Assumptions: Preliminary Results from the Data Curation Network! In the paper we describe the assumptions our team held prior to launching the Data Curation Network, as described in our 2017 planning phase report “A Cross-Institutional Staffing Model…
The Data Curation Network hosted a Virtual All Hands Meeting on July 13-17th, 2020. We held the very first “Primer Hackathon” as part of this virtual experience. Our intention was to update the primers created by the cohort from the first IMLS-funded Specialized Data Curation Workshop, which was co-located at the 2018 DLF Forum October…
Jon Petters is Assistant Director of Data Management and Curation Services at Virginia Tech. He was interviewed by Marley Kalt in July 2020. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been working at Virginia Tech for four years now. My wife got a professor position in Blacksburg, and I was lucky enough to…
Due to the global pandemic COVID-19 we held the 3rd annual Data Curation Network “All Hands Meeting” virtually this year! We hoped to ensure optimal attendance and participation this way and were very conscious of the added stress, distraction and fatigue we’ve all been experiencing lately. Therefore, instead of 2+ full conference days, we opted…
Marley Kalt is a Data Management Consultant at Johns Hopkins University. She was interviewed by Andrew Battista in July 2020. How did you come to your current position? I recently completed a Master’s in Information Science. Before graduate school I knew I wanted to go into academic librarianship, and through digital curation coursework and extracurricular…
The Data Curation Network (DCN) is pleased to announce its newest partners – Virginia Tech and the University of California Santa Barbara – joining the project in Year 3 of the implementation phase which runs until June 2021! Virginia Tech is represented by Jonathan Petters, Assistant Director of Data Management and Curation Services. Jonathan will…