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Diving Into OpenRefine: Creating a Tool-Based Primer

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…

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Announcing Five Joining DCN Members and the Growth of the RADS Initiative

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…

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Get to know DCN Advisory Board Member, Tim McGeary!

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…

The Importance of Data Ethics in Data Interpretation

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…

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Knowledge exchange and cross-pollination of ideas: Reflections on the IASSIST & CARTO 2024 Workshop

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…