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…
As spring approaches, we are gearing up for our favorite annual event — the All Hands Meeting! This year, we will gather May 14-17 at Duke University. Thanks to the meticulous planning of our dedicated committee, we’re thrilled to unveil a sneak peak of our agenda. As in previous years, we will offer an overview…
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…
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…
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),…
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…
Sherry Lake is the Scholarly Repository Librarian at the University of Virginia. Sherry was interviewed by Madina Grace in February 2024. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been at the University of Virginia (UVa) Library for over 20 years but I’ll start in 2010 when the NSF sharing data letter came out….
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…
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…
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…