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Monthly Roundup - October 2022

• Call for participation — Submit your application by Friday, November 4!

  • As part of an IMLS grant (RE-252343-OLS-22), the DCN is looking for applications to join community-driven instructional cohorts for specialized data types. Help shape the next iteration of the DCN’s educational offerings, and submit your application by Friday to join one of four cohorts:

    • Code

    • Geospatial data

    • Scientific images

    • Simulation data

  • If you have any questions, reach out to Principal Investigator, Sophia Lafferty-Hess, at: sophia.lafferty.hess@duke.edu

  • Read the full call for participation.

• In case you missed it…

  • Curation is preservation: Reflections from iPRES 2022

    • DCN Director, Mikala Narlock, attended iPRES 2022 in Glasgow, Scotland, and shares some of her key takeaways and reflections.

  • The DCN and NIH have collaborated to offer a learning series for program officers, information professionals, and researchers in advance of the January 2023 data sharing requirements.

  • The DCN held an in-person specialized data curation at the University of Minnesota October 26-27. Thank you to our attendees, our instructors, our hosts at Wilson Library, and all of the support staff who made this workshop possible!

Upcoming Special Interest Group Events

• Big Data Interest Group Meeting

  • November 2, 3-4pm Eastern

  • This meeting is open to everyone— join us!

• Racial Justice Working Group

  • November 3, 2-3pm Eastern

  • This group is open to all DCN members.

Upcoming Committee Meetings

• Monthly Governance Board Meeting

  • Tuesday, November 8, 11-12pm Eastern

  • All Governance Board members are expected to attend or ask another institutional member to attend in their place.

Monthly Reporting

DCN Community — We are incredibly close to our dataset curation goals for this calendar year! Consider submitting a dataset to our shared workflow.

New Submissions

DCN-335: Human challenge study dataset 2015 was submitted by Rachel Woodbrook for Michigan and curated by Sarah Wright for Cornell.

DCN-336: Data deposit of algal growth data and aqueous chemistry data during mineral-hydogel composite treatment for "Mineral-Hydrogel Composites for Mitigating Harmful Algal Bloom and Supplying Phosphorous for Photo-biorefineries" was submitted by Jennifer Moore for Washington University and curated by Cindy Xuying Xin for Penn State.

Resolved Datasets

DCN-308: A Global Catalog of Volcanoes and Shield Fields on Venus was submitted by Jennifer Moore for Washington University and curated by Briana Ezray Wham for Penn State. This dataset was already in good shape, but Briana helped improve the documentation and discoverability of the dataset.

DCN-314: Interspecific Interactions between Sympatric Apes was submitted by Jennifer Moore for Washington University and curated by Susan Braxton for Illinois. With expert guidance from Susan, the researcher made essential changes to their dataset, including creating and significantly improving documentation.

DCN-333: West Nicaragua Upper-plate earthquakes GPS rinex 1.0 was submitted by Cindy Xuying Xin for Penn State and curated by Melinda Kernik for Minnesota. Thanks to Melinda’s expertise, the authors updated data files and improved the dataset documentation, ensuring this dataset will be more reusable.

DCN-335: Human challenge study dataset 2015 was submitted by Rachel Woodbrook for Michigan and curated by Sarah Wright for Cornell. Sarah provided a critical second opinion for Rachel about this potentially sensitive data.

The dataset is embargoed until January 2023— we will share that link when possible!

No new Curator’s Corner this week — but check out this interview with Illinois Curator, Susan Braxton, from April 2021!

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