“We are excited to announce that Ithaka S+R has been awarded grant funding from the National Science Foundation to support the development of infrastructures for data sharing within data communities in collaboration with the Data Curation Network. “Leveraging Data Communities to Advance Open Science,” will bring together scientists and information technology professionals for focused discussions about initiating and sustaining data communities….”
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DCN Responds to Publishers’ Repository Section Criteria or Features – Data Curation Network
“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, librarians, publishers, and others in the scholarly communications ecosystem, and we appreciate the author’s efforts to establish a mechanism in which to do this. But, we ultimately feel that the set of criteria presented oversimplifies the decision making process for publishing and archiving research data. …”
DCN Responds to Publishers’ Repository Section Criteria or Features – Data Curation Network
“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, librarians, publishers, and others in the scholarly communications ecosystem, and we appreciate the author’s efforts to establish a mechanism in which to do this. But, we ultimately feel that the set of criteria presented oversimplifies the decision making process for publishing and archiving research data. …”
The Data Curation Network – A shared staffing model for digital data repositories
“As professional data curators, research data librarians, academic library administrators, directors of international data repositories, disciplinary subject experts, and scholars we represent academic institutions and non-profit societies that make research data available to the public….
Data curators prepare and enrich research data to make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). Sharing our data curation staff across DCN partner institutions enables data repositories to collectively, and more effectively, curate a wider variety of data types (e.g., discipline, file format, etc.) that expands beyond what any single institution might offer alone….”
Data Curation Network Makes More Research Data Available to All – Association of Research Libraries
“Research data has the most impact when other researchers and the public can find it and use it to build upon the original researcher’s findings.
Researchers struggle with sharing their data in ways that make it findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). Depositing their data in a repository is only part of the solution.
Data curators are employed by repositories to enrich research data, making the data FAIR through such activities as authentication, archiving, metadata creation, and digital preservation….
But each repository alone cannot supply all the expertise needed to curate the wide variety of data types and discipline-specific data formats it contains, such as spatial data, computer code, databases, chemical spectra, 3-D images, and genomic sequencing data.
To cooperatively, and more effectively, curate all types of research data the Data Curation Network shares staff among participating repositories. The network also expands the skills of data curators and shares best practices by providing free workshops for librarians, curators, and archivists and by developing community resources, such as curation checklists, primers, and workshop content….”