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Monthly Roundup - February 2022

Save the Date: DCN’s All-Hands Meeting 2022 will be held
June 29-July 1!

• DCN Leadership Transition

  • Congratulations to Lisa in her new role as Director of Data Governance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison!

  • Assistant Director, Mikala Narlock, will transition into the role of Director.

  • Read the full press release.

• DCN Participates in OCLC Research project

  • The Data Curation Network has been selected as a case study on research data management collaboration as part of OCLC’s Library Collaboration in RDM series

• DCN responds to Cultural Proficiencies For Racial Equity: A Framework

• ICYMI:

  • DCN launches Twitter account— connect with us! @WeAreDCN

  • DCN launches YouTube account— view presentations and webinar recordings: https://z.umn.edu/DCNYouTube

• Upcoming SIG Events

  • Join the Big Data Interest Group on Wednesday May 4, 2022 from 3:00-3:50pm EST.

    • Link to Running Notes Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ILz_O1sZT61Q2-_u8mKZG7-bNgydU2l296DnP8MjjpE/edit

    • To message the group, email <dcn-bigdata@googlegroups.com>

  DCN March Madness Results

  Over the course of three rounds of voting, the DCN and RDM communities decided the topic of the next primer. The winning format is… PPKX! PPKX won the final round with 19/31 votes.

  • You can view the Press Release, which includes an update with the results, and an with results from each round: https://datacurationnetwork.org/2022/03/15/dcn-presents-data-curation-march-madness/

Monthly Reporting

New Submissions

DCN-300: Data from “Assessment of Candida albicans Invasion of Human Pharyngeal Epithelial Cells” was submitted to March Madness by Hoa Luong for Illinois.

DCN-301: Data from ArcGIS Pro Project (.ppkx) was submitted to March Madness by Melinda Kernik for Minnesota.

DCN-302: Data from: Estimating dredge-induced turbidity using drone imagery was submitted to March Madness by Sophia Lafferty-Hess for Duke.

DCN-303: Data from: A pilot study investigating the effects of voluntary exercise on capillary stalling and cerebral blood flow in the APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease was submitted to March Madness by Sarah Wright for Cornell.

DCN-304: Supporting data for "3D Printed Self-Supporting Elastomeric Structures for Multifunctional Microfluidics" was submitted to March Madness by Valerie Collins for Minnesota.

DCN-305: Data for Hudson River Project Website was submitted to March Madness by Sarah Wright for Cornell.

DCN-306: Data for ROCR Isoprene Retrievals from the CrIS Satellite Sensor was submitted by Katie Barrick for Minnesota and curated by Susan Borda for Michigan.

DCN-307: Energy Facilities Screening in Illinois: Mine-Mouth Power Plants was submitted by Hoa Luong for Illinois and curated by Melinda Kernik for Minnesota

DCN-308: A Global Catalog of Volcanoes and Shield Fields on Venus was submitted by Jennifer Moore for WashU and curated by Briana Ezray Wham for Penn State.

Resolved Datasets

DCN-306: Data for ROCR Isoprene Retrievals from the CrIS Satellite Sensor was submitted by Katie Barrick for Minnesota and curated by Susan Borda for Michigan. Thanks to the suggestions of Susan, Katie added additional descriptive information to the dataset to improve reusability and consolidated the files into a single zip for ease of use.