The 2020 Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 11-13. DCN project coordinator Liza Coburn and project manager for the IMLS-sponsored specialized data curation workshops Hannah Hadley were both present this year along with many other DCN project members. Unfortunately, due to the global pandemic COVID-19 and at…
We’d like to share the Data Curation Network (DCN) response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy request for public comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research posted January 17, 2020 as document 85 FR 3085 in the Federal Register. Our team,…
When the DCN started as an idea back in 2016, we knew that this project had the potential to quickly grow and attract interest from a wide range of stakeholders. And today, thanks to the ongoing support of the Alfred P Sloan foundation, we have been successful so far in planning and implementing a pilot…
Lots of exciting talks, posters, and keynotes at the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 2020 this week in Dublin…and the DCN was well represented! Curators Share their Research Susan Borda presented her work with the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology on storing and sharing vertebrate data. Slides at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3667733. Dave Fearon presented services developed…
Susan Borda is the Data Workflow Specialist atthe University of Michigan Library. She was interviewed by Dave Fearon in January, 2020. How did you come to your current position – when did you start and where were you before this? June 2017. Montana State University. I had jobs in Higher Ed and corporate IT for…
Remember 2019? This was our first year of piloting our collaborative data curation service in the Data Curation Network. Our 10 partner institutions submitted 74 datasets from their overall deposits that year (see below) to be matched with a data curator with domain and software expertise. And 95% of these datasets were successfully matched to…
Dave Fearon is a Senior Data Management Consultant atJohns Hopkins University. He was interviewed by Alicia Hofelich Mohr in January, 2020. How did you come to your current position? I originally got a PhD in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara. Neither I nor my wife wanted to be professors (nor were the offers coming), so…
Back in 2017, several members of the Data Curation Network participated in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Data Curation Spec Kit, a survey asking the 124 ARL institutions across the United States and Canada to self-assess their data repository and curation services. Three years later, institutional support for data sharing is as relevant as ever. For…
DCN-75: “Terrestrial land-cover type richness is positively linked to landscape-level functioning”, a GIS/geospatial ecology and evolutionary biology dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Elizabeth Hull on behalf of Dryad, and curated by Melinda Kernik. This dataset was of good quality initially, but Melinda had several recommendations for the data author, including: adding citations for…
Dryad just posted an announcement seeking curation help: https://blog.datadryad.org/jobs/. According to Associate Director Elizabeth Hull: “The opportunity is fully remote and offers flexible scheduling. We’re open to part-time and full-time, and will consider applications from current grad students. It’s an exciting time to join Dryad. We recently launched a new platform and are looking forward to…