[posted to Research Data, Access and Preservation <rdap@asist.org> mailing list on 1 Augsut 2017]
I'm excited to announce that our team has just released the result of our planning phase, a model for launching a Data Curation Network, to our website for comment. We'd greatly appreciate your feedback on this proposed new service via in-doc commenting (web version) or via email to the group at DCN-team@googlegroups.com.
A little background: With support from the Sloan Foundation, our team researched curator skills, faculty/PI user-needs, and tracked local metrics of the datasets coming to each of our institutions' data curation services for the past year. We set out to develop a collaborative service that will allow institutions like ours to better support researchers faced with a growing number of requirements to ethically share their research data. The result is a cross-institutional staffing model for curating research data. With the Data Curation Network, institutional users (e.g., academic libraries, disciplinary repositories, etc.) will be able to provide critical new data curation services when local resources are limited (without needing to hire) and to expand the scope of their curation support to new and/or less frequently encountered data types. In our newly released report we share our next steps for launching the DCN.
Thanks for reading!
Lisa
on behalf of the DCN planning team:
Lisa Johnston (U Minnesota)
Jake Carlson (U of Michigan)
Cynthia Hudson-Vitale (WashU St. Louis)
Heidi Imker (U of Illinois)
Wendy Kozlowski (Cornell)
Robert Olendorf (Penn State)
Claire Stewart (U of Minnesota)
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Lisa Johnston
Research Data Management/Curation Lead
and Co-Director of the University Digital Conservancy
University of Minnesota Libraries
