DCN-29: Dynamics of Cooperation and Social Status, a tabular anthropology dataset, was submitted by Erin Clary and curated for the DCN by Jen Darragh. Due to Jen’s expertise, essential curation actions were taken (e.g. errors were corrected, documentation was added). See the dataset page (linked through the dataset identifier above) for more details. Thank you…
DCN-25: In vivo pump-probe and multiphoton fluorescence microscopy of melanoma and pigmented lesions in a mouse model, a chemistry image dataset, was submitted by Jen Darragh and curated by Dave Fearon. Due to Dave’s expertise, major curation actions were taken (e.g. files were updated or added, metadata was updated or added). See the dataset page…
DCN-28: Scaled Hydrokinetic Turbine Array, a Civil and Environmental Engineering code dataset was submitted by Lisa Johnston and curated by Chen Chiu. Due to Chen’s expertise, major curation actions were taken (e.g. documentation work, file updates). See the dataset page (linked through the dataset identifier above) for more details. Thank you Chen and Lisa!
The purpose of this Dataset Digest series of blog posts will be to keep our followers informed and up to date on the curation activities of the DCN! These weekly updates will summarize datasets that have been curated by the network. Once a dataset is “finalized” (curation is complete, any necessary updates or changes have…
The 2019 RDAP Summit took place May 15th – 17th in Coral Gables, Florida. Around 150 people were in attendance – including a few members of the DCN! DCN Project Coordinator, Liza Coburn, was there to present a poster detailing our progress and the early results of both our data curation service and specialized data…
We are pleased to announce that the data curation primers from our first specialized data curation workshop are now being published! It has been a wonderful six months working with amazing professionals from over thirty different institutions on this first round of our project! Primer groups formed out of the first of three IMLS-funded Specialized…
The Data Curation Network (DCN) is pleased to announce its newest partner – Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (WashU) – joining the project in Year 2 of the implementation phase which runs through June 2021! The DCN Representative for WashU is none other than Jennifer Moore, Data Services Coordinator and GIS & Anthropology Librarian…
Two DCN members presented at the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) in Melbourne, Australia on February 5, 2019. DCN Curators Debra Fagan and Erin Clary, both from Dryad, developed the presentation “The Data curation Network: A Curator’s Perspective.” Fagan and DCN PI Lisa Johnston co-presented the talk. The audience asked several great questions, such as:…
We’re excited to announce that after months of testing the Data Curation Network is officially in production! We’re now curating data sets submitted from Network partner institutions with our unique cross-institutional curation service. This is a significant milestone for the project, which is currently in its first year of a three-year implementation phase (2018-2021) supported…
The encompassing work and actions taken by curators of a data repository in order to provide meaningful and enduring access to data can be very time and resource intensive. Which begs the question: does data curation add value? This is a difficult question to tackle as each curation story is as different as the datasets…