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…
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…