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Expressions of Interest Open: RADS 2 and DCN Membership

The Data Curation Network and the members of the Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative are pleased to announce the expansion of the RADS project to include additional institutions. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the DCN are seeking five US-based academic libraries to join a research project focused on understanding the costs…

Advancing Trust and Transparency: Insights from DCN Member Repositories on Meeting Desirable Characteristics for Federally Funded Research

This post has been authored by Sarah Reiff Conell (Princeton) and Sarah Wright (Cornell) who both attended the International Digital Curation Conference in February 2024 held in Edinburgh, Scotland. We recently presented a poster titled ‘Desirable Characteristics and Trust in Repositories: a cross-institutional comparison’ at IDCC 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The poster summarized the self-evaluation…

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Announcing the Summit for Academic Institutional Readiness in Data Sharing (STAIRS)

The DCN is excited to announce the next phase of our project, “Sustaining Open Research: Institutional Repository Readiness.”  Building on our virtual learning series held in Summer/Fall 2023, we are excited to share our plans to host the Summit for Academic Institutional Readiness in Data Sharing (STAIRS) in August 2024! This summit is funded under…

DCN Response to USDA Implementation Plan to Increase Public Access

In February 2024, the Data Curation Network provided feedback on the USDA’s Implementation Plan to Increase Public Access to USDA-Funded Research Results, Notice 2024-01673. We are excited to see and support the USDA’s continued efforts to provide access to invaluable data and research outputs, and submitted the following feedback (slightly edited from the full version),…

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Value of Curation: End User Satisfaction Interest Group Update and Webinar

This post has been authored by End User Satisfaction Interest Group members Sophia Lafferty-Hess, Hoa Luong, Wanda Marsolek, and Sarah Wright. EDIT: The slides and recording for this webinar are now accessible. Thanks to all who attended! What is the impact of data curation? Do curated datasets have greater measurable value than non-curated datasets? How…

DCN Website Updates 2024

Since its launch in September 2019, the DCN’s WordPress site has grown organically alongside our community. In Spring 2023, Amy Drayer, a colleague at the University of Minnesota, conducted an accessibility review of our site — and found many areas for improvement! Some of these were relatively straightforward, such as general text updates to improve…

DCN Response to NIH Best Practices for Sharing Software

On behalf of the Data Curation Network (DCN), we appreciate the opportunity to provide input on the Best Practices for Sharing NIH Supported Research Software, Notice NOT-OD-24-005. The DCN has been an advocate for open and ethically shared data since our inception, and we are excited to see and support NIH’s continued efforts to provide…

Teaching an old repository new tricks: developing a human participant data policy

This post was authored by Shanda Hunt, Research Data Education and Outreach librarian (Left), and Alicia Hofelich Mohr, Research Support Coordinator (Right), both at the University of Minnesota. This is the story of policy development. As federal data sharing mandates change and grow, we thought our experience of adding a new policy may be timely…