The DCN is delighted to announce our newest sustaining members: Carnegie Mellon University and the University of New Mexico! We are pleased to welcome new members from Carnegie Mellon University: Alfredo González-Espinoza is the Research and Data Services Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. Alfredo has a background/expertise in Complex Systems and interdisciplinary research. Outside…
Lauren Phegley is the Research Data Engineer at the University of Pennsylvania. Lauren was interviewed by Halle Burns in August 2024. How did you come to your current position? I came to the University of Pennsylvania from graduate school. I worked at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in their Research Data Service in the…
This post was authored by intern Jodecy Guerra, as part of a semester-long intern with the DCN Spring 2024. This post was edited by Shawna Taylor and Mikala Narlock. Introduction As a spring 2024 intern with the Data Curation Network (DCN), I had the opportunity to explore how data curation enhances data reuse. While the…
This guest blog post was written by OpenRefine Primer authors, Heather Charlotte Owen (University of Rochester, https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1771-366X), Aditi Thite (AVSInfoPro, LLC, https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6193-5407), and Peyton Tvrdy (U.S. Department of Transportation, National Transportation Library, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9720-4725). All attended the April 2023 Data Curation Workshop sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. OpenRefine is a powerful data cleaning and…
This post was authored by Jennifer Moore, Head of Data Services at WashU, and Mikala Narlock, DCN Director. The Data Curation Network (DCN) is excited to announce the addition of five new members, who will be joining our community from August 19, 2024, to August 14, 2026. Joining members: University of Arizona Institutional Representative: Fernando…
This post is a spin-off of our Curators’ Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Advisory or Governance Board member. Get to know the colleagues at the DCN that help keep our operations going! Tim McGeary, Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Technology, Duke University, DCN Advisory Board Chair, was interviewed…
This post was authored by intern Tonja Cunningham, as part of DCN’s partnership with the National Center for Data Services (NCDS). These internships are funded with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).* As a newly minted MLS graduate, I embarked on the Spring 2024 National…
This post was authored by Erin Clary, Curation Coordinator at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (Alliance), and Mikala Narlock, Director, Data Curation Network. Mikala: I recently had the privilege of co-presenting a CURATE(D) workshop at the 2024 IASSIST & CARTO Conference with Sophia Lafferty-Hess. We traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and gave an abbreviated…
Halle Burns is the Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Halle was interviewed by Alexandra Provo in June 2024. How did you come to your current position? When I was in a library school, I largely took either data management or data science courses – learning how to code, metadata schemas, data cleaning, things…
This post was authored by Trisha Adamus, Research Data Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As the newest curator to attend the Data Curation Network (DCN) All Hands Meeting (AHM) at Duke University in May 2024, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Some of the schools represented had been part of the initial cohort and…