PresQT Workshop 1:  Data Curation Network Lightning Talk by Jake Carlson
Channel: Natalie Meyers
Date: 07/05/2017

A talk about Data Curation Network planning project given by Jake Carlson at the PresQT Workshop May 1, 2017 at the University of Notre Dame. 

The Data Curation Network (DCN) is an effort to develop a “network of expertise” model for libraries providing data curation services to connect and collaborate with each other to increase member capabilities in curating research data beyond what any one institution could provide on its own.

Currently, the DCN is supported by a one year planning grant from the Sloan foundation and includes six institutions: The University of Minnesota (lead), the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, Cornell University, Penn State University, Washington University in St. Louis. 

DCN has spent the past year comparing the data curation services offered by each of the DCN institutions, comparing practices and practices for curating data and engaging with researchers at participating institutions to better understand their priorities and needs for curating their data.  DCN has also been surveying ARL member libraries to understand the priorities and service offerings for data curation provided by the library community. 

DCN is now assessing what has been learned from these activities to develop an operational model for the Data Curation Network and the services it will provide. This lightning talk very briefly covers what has been learned from work thus far and current thinking in developing the Data Curation Network.