DCN-69: “‘Data for ‘Robust, accurate, and efficient: quantum embedding using the Huzinaga level-shift projection operator for complex systems’”, a chemistry simulation dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Valerie Collins and curated by Xuying Xin. This was a high quality dataset, and Xuying’s only recommendations were to make small changes to the documentation and to…
Alicia Hofelich Mohr is the Research Support Coordinator for Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services (LATIS) at the University of Minnesota. Alicia was interviewed by Sophia Lafferty-Hess in September, 2019. How did you come to your current position? I came to this position in a roundabout way, like a few other curators. I was in…
DCN-66: “Geometries for Minnesota Database 2019”, a chemistry database, was submitted to the DCN by Valerie Collins and curated by Xuying Xin. This was a high quality dataset. Xuying’s recommendations included converting files to a more accessible format, updating the dataset’s documentation to include variable definitions and reconciling or explaining the differences in file names…
DCN-41: “Data from: Eulerian videography technology improves classification of sleep architecture in primates”, an ecology video dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Erin Clary and curated by Jennifer Darragh. This was a high quality dataset and Jen’s only recommendation was that the author consider transforming to a more preservation-friendly format. The author did not follow…
Sophia Lafferty-Hess is a Senior Research Data Management Consultant at Duke University. Sophia was interviewed by Seth Erickson in August, 2019. How did you come to your current position? I got involved in data curation and data management during graduate school at UNC. I did an internship at the Odum Institute for Research in Social…
Our third specialized data curation workshop took place on November 5th and 6th of 2019 at Washington University in St. Louis. In attendance were twenty-eight professionals from twenty-five different institutions! Our instructors for the event included: Cynthia Hudson Vitale – Pennsylvania State University Lisa Johnston – University of Minnesota Jennifer Moore – Washington University in…
DCN-35: SNP Genotyping Data for the Barley Population in “Registration of the S2MET Barley Mapping Population for Multi-Environment Genomewide Selection”, a crop sciences code and genomics dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Valerie Collins and curated by Erin Clary. Although this was a good quality dataset, Erin had significant recommendations related to expanding documentation,…
Seth Erickson is the Software Curation Librarian and CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. Seth was interviewed by Chen Chiu in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I did my PhD in Information Studies at UCLA. I studied researcher software development practices. I’d been interested in this area for…
DCN-49: Silver-ableC: a Silver extension for writing ableC specifications, a computer sciences code dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Wanda Marsolek and curated by Debra Fagan. Wanda submitted this dataset looking for both technical and disciplinary expertise, and Debra was a perfect match! Debra’s suggestions included creating additional documentation in the form of a…
Last month, our friends Jay Brodeur (McMaster) and Lee Wilson (ACENET/Portage) from the Portage Network organized the first Canadian Data Curation Forum held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario October 16-18, 2019. Cynthia Hudson Vitale and Lisa Johnston were invited to give a talk and share in this exciting development. We also taught a mini-workshop on…