We are the Data Curation Network
As professional data curators, data management experts, data repository administrators, disciplinary scientists and scholars we represent academic institutions and non-profit data repositories that steward research data for future use.
What we do
We strive to build a trusted community-led network of curators advancing open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and understandable.
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Our Values
Open. We share data curation techniques that are practical, transparent and available to all.
Trusted. We add value to data while maintaining data integrity and upholding the ethical responsibilities of data sharing.
Inclusive. We foster an accessible and welcoming environment to equitably support all participants.
Collaborative. We build an innovative community of practice for data curation.
Empowering. We advocate for data professionals by providing a pipeline for training data curators, promoting data curation practices and enriching capacities for data curation writ large.
Recent blog posts
Get to Know DCN Curator Molly Hirst!
This post is part of our Curators’ Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Curator. The series grew out of a community-building activity wherein curators at our partner organizations interview each other “chain-letter style” in order to get to know each other and their work outside of the DCN better. We hope…
Reflecting on 2025 DCN All Hands
This post is authored by Avianna Wooten, Data Management & Sharing Specialist at Washington University in St. Louis and first time All Hands Meeting attendee A takeaway from the 2025 DCN All Hands (AHM) as a first-time attendee: I could really go for deviled eggs.As part of my 2025 DCN All Hands Meeting (AHM) experience,…
Get to Know DCN Curator Alfredo Gonzalez-Espinoza!
Alfredo Gonzalez-Espinoza is the Research and Data Services Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University. Alfredo was interviewed by Sarah Reiff Conell in June 2025. How did you come to your current position? During my PhD (Physics) in México and postdoctoral studies at interdisciplinary labs (Biophysics and Computational Genomics in México and Mathematical Biology at Penn), I realized…
This is the work: Tales from a journey towards racial justice in the DCN
This post is authored by members of the Racial Justice Working Group (RJWG). This serves to document our efforts, along with the evolution and status of a DCN ethics statement. Many racial justice efforts were born out of the upheaval of 2020 and have since faded. The DCN’s Racial Justice Working Group (RJWG) persists and…
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