The Data Curation Network (DCN) is pleased to announce its newest partners – Virginia Tech and the University of California Santa Barbara – joining the project in Year 3 of the implementation phase which runs until June 2021! Virginia Tech is represented by Jonathan Petters, Assistant Director of Data Management and Curation Services. Jonathan will…
Andrew Battista is the Librarian for Geospatial Information Systems at New York University. He was interviewed by Jen Darragh in May 2020. How did you come to your current position? I completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and took a library job as an Information Literacy and Reference Librarian at a small liberal arts school….
Jen Darragh is a Senior Research Data Management Consultant for the Duke University Libraries. She was interviewed by Liza Coburn in May 2020. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been involved in some aspect of research data since I graduated from college. I started out working on a longitudinal research data project…
We are very pleased to invite you to attend our second Primerpalooza webinar event with the International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology, IASSIST! This event will take place on: Wed, Apr 29, 2020 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT To register please visit: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1480598364814615565 The Data Curation Network presents an update…
The 2020 Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 11-13. DCN project coordinator Liza Coburn and project manager for the IMLS-sponsored specialized data curation workshops Hannah Hadley were both present this year along with many other DCN project members. Unfortunately, due to the global pandemic COVID-19 and at…
We’d like to share the Data Curation Network (DCN) response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy request for public comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research posted January 17, 2020 as document 85 FR 3085 in the Federal Register. Our team,…
When the DCN started as an idea back in 2016, we knew that this project had the potential to quickly grow and attract interest from a wide range of stakeholders. And today, thanks to the ongoing support of the Alfred P Sloan foundation, we have been successful so far in planning and implementing a pilot…
Lots of exciting talks, posters, and keynotes at the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 2020 this week in Dublin…and the DCN was well represented! Curators Share their Research Susan Borda presented her work with the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology on storing and sharing vertebrate data. Slides at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3667733. Dave Fearon presented services developed…
Susan Borda is the Data Workflow Specialist atthe University of Michigan Library. She was interviewed by Dave Fearon in January, 2020. How did you come to your current position – when did you start and where were you before this? June 2017. Montana State University. I had jobs in Higher Ed and corporate IT for…
Remember 2019? This was our first year of piloting our collaborative data curation service in the Data Curation Network. Our 10 partner institutions submitted 74 datasets from their overall deposits that year (see below) to be matched with a data curator with domain and software expertise. And 95% of these datasets were successfully matched to…