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Monthly Roundup - June 2022

June was a busy month for the DCN! Our update section is longer than usual— enjoy! 🥳

DCN’s All-Hands Meeting 2022 was held June 28-June 30! Thanks to all of our participants and speakers for another wonderful virtual AHM.

Special thanks to Planning Committee members Hoa Luong, Neggin Keshavarzian, Wanda Marsolek, and Dorris Scott for their work!

• Elections for the Curator at Large position close July 1 at 5pm Eastern— All DCN Members are eligible to vote.

  • Candidates are Dorris Scott (WashU) and Aditya Ranganath (CU Boulder).

    
    

• Welcome new sustaining institution, CU Boulder!

  • We are pleased to announce our newest sustaining member: University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder). During the 21-22 fiscal year, CU Boulder was a beta testing member of the DCN– we are delighted they are able to continue membership at the Sustainer tier effective July 1, 2022.

• DCN hosts three summer interns with the National Center for Data Services (NCDS)

  • From June 6th, 2022, until August 6th, 2022, Aundria Parkman, Liliana Gonzalez, and Maria Arteaga will be joining the DCN community.

  • Special thanks to DCN mentors: Scout Calvert, Wind Cowles, Jennifer Darragh, Shanda Hunt, and Sophia Lafferty-Hess!
    

• DCN launches new collaboration with JeSLIB: Curatorial Connections Column

  • In August 2021, the Data Curation Network partnered with the Journal of eScience Librarianship to produce a special issue: Data Curation in Practice. Now, calls are open for a new, recurring column: Curatorial Connections, edited by Hannah Hadley (Princeton University) and Mikala Narlock (DCN/University of Minnesota).

  • Anyone wishing to propose a column should visit the JeSLIB Author Guidelines for more information and submit an abstract (>250 words) via the submission form (https://z.umn.edu/jeslib-column-proposal).

• In case you missed it…

  • RADS x DCN: It takes a Network to Work

    • Update from Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Project Manager, Shawna Taylor

  • DCN releases benchmarking preservation report

  • Get to know DCN Curator Wanda Marsolek

The DCN Special Interest Groups are taking July off for a summer break— look for information about August meetings in our next newsletter!

Monthly Reporting

Note: The above graph indicates five datasets were submitted but seven institutions curated. This is because two datasets were reviewed by two curators.

New Submissions

DCN-314: Curation on Bioanthropology Dataset: Interspecific Interactions between Sympatric Apes was submitted by Jennifer Moore for WashU and curated by Susan Braxton for Illinois.

DCN-315: Improved Pufa Dataset was submitted by Jennifer Moore for WashU and curated by Yasir Karim for MJFF and Dave Fearon for Johns Hopkins.

DCN-316: Supporting Information for "Mechanism of Methanol Dehydration Catalyzed by Al8O12 Nodes assisted by Linker Amine Groups of the Metal-Organic Framework CAU-1" was submitted by Wanda Marsolek for Minnesota and curated by Cindy Xuying Xin for Penn State and Jonathan Petters for Virginia Tech.

DCN-317: Global Scale Wave Model 2009 (GSWM-09) was submitted by Aditya Ranganath for CU Boulder and curated by Henrik Spoon for Cornell.

DCN-318: DrosophilaFlight was submitted by Sarah Wright for Cornell and curated by Chen Chiu for Johns Hopkins.

Resolved Datasets

DCN-313: Data for Long-lifetime spin excitations near domain walls in 1T-TaS2 was submitted by Hoa Luong for Illinois and curated by Cindy Xuying Xin for Penn State. Thanks to Xuying’s expertise, minimal curation activities were taken, including improving the documentation of the dataset for future reusers.

DCN-316: Supporting Information for "Mechanism of Methanol Dehydration Catalyzed by Al8O12 Nodes assisted by Linker Amine Groups of the Metal-Organic Framework CAU-1" was submitted by Wanda Marsolek for Minnesota and curated by Cindy Xuying Xin for Penn State and Jonathan Petters for Virginia Tech. Thanks to the expertise of both Xuying and Jonathan, minmal curation activities were taken, including improving the documentation, clarifying licenses, and establishing links between the article and affiliated dataset.

If you would like to share your upcoming events, opportunities, interesting articles, or other information with the Data Curation Network community, please contact Mikala Narlock, DCN Director, at mnarlock@umn.edu.