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…
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,…
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 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…
Sarah Reiff Conell is the Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Sarah was interviewed by Jennifer Patiño in April 2025. How did you come to your current position? I came to this position through a PhD in art history. I was a project manager for a few different projects, but in each of my positions,…
Mikala Narlock, DCN Director, has accepted a new position at Indiana University Libraries as the Director of Research Data Service. Beginning March 28th, Emma Molls, the Director of Open Research and Publishing at the University of Minnesota Libraries, will serve as the interim Director. We anticipate filling the vacancy during the summer of 2025. This…
Jennifer Patiño is the Data and Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Jennifer was interviewed by Matthew Murray in March 2025. What’s your current position and how did you come to it? I am the Data and Digital Scholarship Librarian over at UW Madison. I’m from Chicago, and I have a background…
Hello! I’m Amy and I’m thrilled to join the Data Curation Network as the new Special Programs Manager, where I’ll divide my time between community management in the DCN and supporting the RADS Initiative. I’m a professional Dungeons and Dragons Game Master (I’ve been hired to GM birthday parties and teach/facilitate games for local middle…
The post was authored by Jesse Ann Long and Peyton Tvrdy of the National Transportation Library. This post was authored in Fall 2024. In June 2023 the National Transportation Library’s (NTL) Data Services Team incorporated the Data Curation Network’s CURATE(D) workflow into their data cataloging process. NTL is a sub-organization that exists within the Bureau…
Matthew Murray🦇 is the Data Librarian at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Matthew was interviewed by Talya Cooper in December 2024. What is your name and your position title? My name is Matthew Murray, and my position is Data Librarian, which I think is like the shortest librarian title they have in the library where I work….