[Rdap] Data Curation Network: Model Released for Comment

Richard Marciano marciano at umd.edu
Tue Aug 1 19:29:11 EDT 2017


My apologies!  Unintended note I did not mean to send to the list but part
of a back and forth with a  friend with where we having a heated debate on
centralized versus distributed services.

Did not mean to offend anyone on this list.  Gasp...  Some days I hate
email...

-R.



On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Richard Marciano <marciano at umd.edu> wrote:

> Hegemonistic thinking all over again...
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 1, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Lisa Johnston <ljohnsto at umn.edu> wrote:
>
> Hey RDAP,
>
> I'm excited to announce that our team has just released the result of our
> planning phase, a model for launching a Data Curation Network
> <https://sites.google.com/site/datacurationnetwork/results>, to our
> website for comment. We'd greatly appreciate your feedback on this proposed
> new service via in-doc commenting (web version
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IGPiOyKJAl52HALo3i5-Qv_yBnuvyGiReB6ZoaXTW9s/edit#>)
> or via email to the group at DCN-team at googlegroups.com.
>
> A little background: With support from the Sloan Foundation, our team
> researched curator skills, faculty/PI user-needs, and tracked local metrics
> of the datasets coming to each of our institutions' data curation services
> for the past year. We set out to develop a collaborative service that will
> allow institutions like ours to better support researchers faced with a
> growing number of requirements to ethically share their research data. The
> result is a cross-institutional staffing model for curating research data.
> With the Data Curation Network, institutional users (e.g., academic
> libraries, disciplinary repositories, etc.) will be able to provide
> critical new data curation services when local resources are limited
> (without needing to hire) and to expand the scope of their curation support
> to new and/or less frequently encountered data types. In our newly
> released report we share our next steps for launching the DCN.
>
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
> Lisa
>
> on behalf of the DCN planning team:
>
> Lisa Johnston (U Minnesota)
>
> Jake Carlson (U of Michigan)
>
> Cynthia Hudson-Vitale (WashU St. Louis)
>
> Heidi Imker (U of Illinois)
>
> Wendy Kozlowski (Cornell)
>
> Robert Olendorf (Penn State)
>
> Claire Stewart (U of Minnesota)
>
>
> --
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Lisa Johnston
> Research Data Management/Curation Lead
> and Co-Director of the University Digital Conservancy
>
> University of Minnesota Libraries
> 108 Walter Library, Minneapolis, MN 55455
> Hangouts: ljohnsto at umn.edu / Skype: ifylawwt
>
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>
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