View all Special Interest Groups on the Data Curation Network website.
Big Data
The Big Data SIG is reinvigorated! Due to interest at the 2021 AHM, the Big Data SIG has expanded membership to collaborators outside of the DCN, and we have welcomed a number of colleagues from the Canadian RDM community. Over the past few months the group has synthesized discussions and topics of interest from prior years, and we are using them to build consensus around an action plan for 2022. We look forward to reporting more on our activities in the coming months.
Education
The Education Committee is continuing to work on translating the CURATE(D) training into GitHub Modules that can be freely accessed. Thanks to all of our members for their hard work— more information will be shared when available.
End User Satisfaction
The End User Satisfaction Group is continuing to edit and refine our article. In the meantime, those who are interested can view our survey, dataset, and preliminary report to the DCN.
Human Participants
The Human Participants Interest Group is on hiatus. The group completed the Human Participants Data Essentials Primer and Participant Consent Primer in September and February 2021, respectively. The group will reconvene if and when DCN members have new topics to explore.
Institutional Outreach & Communications
The Institutional Outreach and Communications Interest Group is developing a protocol and process for DCN members to engage end users in interviews to generate stories of their data sharing experiences and perspectives. We hope to have our first stories to share this spring! We are also working with our new Assistant Director on the development of materials to promote curation and repository services. Last but not least, we continue to make space to share what we are doing locally for outreach, for instance we just discussed what members are doing for the upcoming Love Data Week!
Racial Justice
The Racial Justice Interest Group will reconvene in February 2022 to discuss the next phase for the team. More information will be shared when available.
Value of Curation
The Value of Curation Group is continuing to edit and refine our article. In the meantime, those who are interested can review our dataset, survey, and related outputs.
