The Data Curation Network is a vibrant and inclusive community of practice that curates datasets, educates on best practices, and performs research. DCN members are leaders in open science, collaborating with researchers to ethically share data in ways that are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). Get involved!
Individual Curators
You can participate in the DCN!
- Join a Special Interest Group
- Sign up for the CURATED workshop
- Create a Data Curation Primer (peer-reviewed)
- Sign up for future DCN webinars
- Watch presentations and webinars YouTube
Institutions
Academic institutions and non-profit data repositories may…
- Join as a sustaining institutional member
- Explore our growing network of members that make research data available to the public
- Collaborate to make a national impact
Collaborators
The DCN is open to collaborations with groups to partake in…
- Information exchanges
- Research projects
- Grant projects
- Joint responses to a RFI
- And more…
Learn more about collaborating with the DCN
“[Curation] ensures the data from all my studies is shared in a uniform, easily identifiable, and accessible manner. This makes navigation for the end user easy and thus makes my work more impactful for the community as a whole.”
Read more about the value of curation