The next step in the DCN project timeline involves hosting engagement activities where we ask researchers: what are the most important data curation activities for you data? Why? Our list of curation activities is now in the publications section of our website. For example, Wendy and I met with Cornell Researchers on Friday and heard that…
Community is fundamental to the Data Curation Network (DCN). We are librarians, curators, and archivists who strongly believe that as a community we can leverage our distributed curation or domain expertise to enhance and curate the research data being created at our institutions. To achieve a shared staffing model for the curation of datasets, the…
Introducing the Data Curation Network project Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant will fund development of shared model across 6 academic libraries In an effort to improve researcher support, the University of Minnesota Libraries will lead efforts to develop a network for sharing data curation resources and staff across six major academic libraries. The one-year project…