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DCN collaborates with Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on National Science Foundation Award
July 22, 2021March 25, 2024

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and six universities involved in the Data Curation Network a $297,019 grant to conduct research, develop models, and collect costing information for public access to research data across five disciplinary areas. The Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative (#2135874) will…

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All Hands Meeting

DCN Holds 4th Annual All Hands Meeting
July 8, 2021December 8, 2023

The 4th annual All Hands Meeting was held virtually from Jun 22-24, 2021 from 1-4pm EST each day. Special thanks to the planning team that made the virtual format fun, participatory, and informative: Liza Coburn (DCN/Minnesota), Katie Wissel (NUY), Wendy Kozlowski (Cornell), Dorris Scott (WashU), Wanda Marsolek (Minnesota), and Jennifer Moore (WashU). Highlights from the…

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Curators' Corner

Get to Know DCN Curator Melinda Kernik!
July 1, 2021

Melinda Kernik is the Spatial Data Analyst and Curator for the University of Minnesota Libraries and U-spatial. She was interviewed by Susan Braxton in June, 2021. How did you come to your current position? I was a graduate student at University of Minnesota in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society. In my first year,…

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DCN News | DCN Reports

New Release: “Centering Racial Equity in Data Curation” report to the Data Curation Network
June 4, 2021March 25, 2024

Last summer at the 2020 All Hands Meeting, the Data Curation Network identified several community goals related to addressing racial justice and equity through our unique role as data curators, as well as increasing the inclusivity, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) within our own community. After a successful RFP in fall 2020, our DCN Special…

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Collaboration | Grant Funding | Repository Readiness

New NSF-Funded Collaboration between Ithaka S+R and the Data Curation Network
May 20, 2021March 25, 2024

We are excited to announce that the Data Curation Network will collaborate with Ithaka S+R on their recently awarded grant from the National Science Foundation to support the development of infrastructures for data sharing within data communities. The project will bring together scientists and information technology professionals for focused discussions about initiating and sustaining data…

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Advocacy | Collaboration | Members

New guide offers institutions a path toward public access for research data
April 30, 2021March 25, 2024

Last week the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) released their “Guide to Accelerate Public Access to Research Data” to prompt campus discussions on how their institution might improve public access to data resulting from federally funded research and open science. The Data Curation Network applauds this…

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Collaboration

Portage Curation Expert Group Meetup with the DCN!
April 14, 2021March 25, 2024

Members of the Data Curation Network met with the Portage Curation Expert Group on March 26, 2021 for a joint meet-up to discuss potential future collaborations. To kick-off the event, Portage executive director Jeff Moon introduced the history and work of the Canadian based Portage Network which has recently joined NDRIO. Portage helps researchers meet…

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Curators' Corner

Get to Know DCN Curator Susan Braxton!
April 13, 2021September 16, 2021

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 ten 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…

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Grant Funding | Primers

New data curation primers!
March 23, 2021December 8, 2023

It’s taken some time, but we’ve published a new set of data curation primers! Many of these were created by participants from our third IMLS funded Specialized Data Curation Workshop which occurred at Washington University in St. Louis on November 5-6, 2019. Many thanks to IMLS for funding this series of workshops through IMLS LB21…

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Advocacy | Collaboration | Repository Readiness

DCN Responds to Publishers’ Repository Section Criteria or Features
January 26, 2021March 25, 2024

The Data Curation Network has co-signed a statement by COAR that provided a response to “Data Repository Selection: Criteria that Matter,” a set of criteria or features proposed by a group of journals, journal publishers and scholarly communication organisations. We recognize that determining or recommending where data should be archived is a challenge for researchers,…

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