The Data Curation Network team is excited to present at the IASSIST conference this week in Lawrence KS! We will give a panel Wednesday morning on Perception vs Practice in providing data curation activities where we share our research findings on what libraries say they do for data curation vs. what researchers find most important….
In partnership with the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Data Curation Network team has released Data Curation, SPEC Kit 354, an exploration of the infrastructure that 80 ARL member institutions are using for the active and ongoing management of data through its life cycle of interest and usefulness to scholarly and educational activities. This…
The DCN team is looking forward to Research Data Management, Access, and Preservation (RDAP) Summit in Seattle, WA tomorrow! Many members of our team will be there and will present a poster on our shared staffing model for data curation services! See a sneak peak of our Poster “Bridging the Gaps of Providing and Scaling Research Data Curation Services” on the…
The Data Curation Network project team released two new reports this week. The first shares the results of six focus group sessions with researchers on their perceptions, use, and barriers of data curation activities. In total we engaged 91 researchers from across our institutions U. of Minnesota, Cornell, Penn State, U of Illinois, U of…
Our baseline comparison of the DCN institutions’ repository and curation services was published today in the Journal of E-Science Librarianship. Thanks to the editors and reviewers for a great experience! To see the final result download the paper at https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2017.1102. Citation: Johnston, Lisa R., Jake R. Carlson, Patricia Hswe, Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Heidi Imker, Wendy Kozlowski,…
Heidi Imker (U. Illinois) and I are at the IDCC conference in Edinburgh this week and presenting some results on the Data Curation Network! To recap, the Data Curation Network project aims to enable academic institutions to scale their data curation services by sharing staff with file format and domain specific skills so that data…
The DCN Team is happy to have been selected as the first ARL survey of 2017 cycle! If you are at an ARL Institution, please check-in with your ARL liaison to be sure that your institution is represented in this survey on Data Curation Services. Responses are being accepted through January 31, 2017. Please note…
The Data Curation Network held six focus groups in the fall of 2016 and asked 91 researchers from a wide variety of disciplines: how would you rate the “importance” of a variety of key data curation activities. Our preliminary results for the importance ranking of 35 data curation activities are presented in the table below….
The DCN team has been busy presenting at conferences this fall. We are posting all slides and posters on our Publications page of the website. More recently we presented some preliminary results of our researcher engagement activities on which data curation activities researchers value most. The full presentation to the Digital Library Federation meeting in Milwaukee, WI…
The DCN team has been busy! We just completed a pilot where each team member curated the same dataset with local curatorial actions to compare and contrast our practices. The results will allow us to define how data might successfully flow through the Network! One idea of the DCN Model looks like this…