<div dir="ltr"><div><h3 id="gmail-m_-2506913420995080066gmail-m_3442602979925190733gmail-sites-page-title-header" align="left" style="margin:0px;padding:33px 10px 0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="open sans" size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">Apologies</span></font><font size="2" style="font-family:"open sans";font-weight:normal"> for cross-posting. Please share broadly. </font></h3><h3 id="gmail-m_-2506913420995080066gmail-m_3442602979925190733gmail-sites-page-title-header" align="left" dir="ltr" style="font-size:26px;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;padding:33px 10px 0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"open sans""><span id="gmail-m_-2506913420995080066gmail-m_3442602979925190733gmail-sites-page-title">Two reports released by the Data Curation Network Project</span></h3><span class="gmail-m_-2506913420995080066gmail-m_3442602979925190733gmail-announcementsPostTimestamp" id="gmail-m_-2506913420995080066gmail-m_3442602979925190733gmail-afterPageTitleHideDuringEdit" style="font-size:12px;margin:0px 10px;color:rgb(132,132,132);display:inline-block;font-family:"open sans"">posted 3-15-2017 by Lisa Johnston (<a href="mailto:ljohnsto@umn.edu">ljohnsto@umn.edu</a>)</span></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#666666">The <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/datacurationnetwork/people">Data Curation Network project team</a> released two new reports this week. The first shares the results of six focus group sessions with researchers on their perceptions, use, and barriers of data curation activities. In total we engaged 91 researchers from across our planning phase institutions: U. of Minnesota, Cornell, Penn State, U of Illinois, U of Michigan, and Wash U. in St. Louis. The research revealed what curation activities are most important to researchers and where the Data Curation Network could provide the most impact. Our interview instruments and assessment data are also provided!</font></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">The second report describes the results of our experimental pilot for curating the same dataset with staff from across our six institutions. We present our methodology, results and concluding recommendations for how a resulting Network model will work as a distributed staffing approach to providing data curation support. Based on the findings of this pilot data curation exercise, the Data Curation Network now has a better understanding of the roles of the "local" and "DCN curators" and how data might effectively flow through the DCN once implemented beyond our six institutions.</font> </div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(97,97,97);font-size:12.8px">Read the full reports on our <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/datacurationnetwork/results" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(131,94,165);text-decoration:none">Publications page</a> </div><ul style="color:rgb(97,97,97);font-size:12.8px"><li><font color="#666666" face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:transparent">Special Report: </font><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:transparent">"</span><b style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ANiIdIChe6VPNloykMJFQEfAPJRGA8-zO-g8z7-XH7k/edit#" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(131,94,165);text-decoration:none">Results of the Researcher Engagement Sessions</a></b><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:transparent">"</span><br></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"></li><li>Supplemental Files available: <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5Dm3XFQloc4ZE0wSnJxR21jXzg" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(131,94,165);text-decoration:none">Data Tables</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">, </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5Dm3XFQloc4RktRYXRsR1N0SGc" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(131,94,165);text-decoration:none">Worksheet Protocol</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">, and </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5Dm3XFQloc4N1ZpSkU0VVJtb2c" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(131,94,165);text-decoration:none">Master Card Desk</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> used in Researcher Engagement Focus Groups</span><br></li></ul><li>Special Report: "<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Lp734CzZRJgZWYixGg1DMr9WEiWcM0wPBD0SQvcAko/edit#" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(131,94,165);text-decoration:none"><b>Results of the Data Curation Pilots</b></a><span style="font-size:12.8px">"</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif" style="color:rgb(97,97,97);font-family:georgia,serif;text-align:center;background-color:transparent">The Data Curation Network project is supported by a grant from the </font><span style="color:rgb(97,97,97);text-align:center;background-color:transparent;font-family:helvetica"><a href="http://www.sloan.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(131,94,165);text-decoration:none">ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION</a>. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#616161" face="helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#616161" face="helvetica">The Data Curation Network project aims to enable academic institutions to scale their data curation services by sharing staff with file format and domain specific skills so that data sets ingested by one institution might be curated by curators with that expertise at another institution. Thus we aim to provide data repositories with a wider range of curatorial expertise to handle the multi-disciplinary data types found across academic domains. <br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(97,97,97);text-align:center;background-color:transparent;font-family:helvetica"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(97,97,97);text-align:center;background-color:transparent;font-family:helvetica">To learn more, check out our website at <br></span><font color="#616161" face="helvetica"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/datacurationnetwork/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/si<wbr>te/datacurationnetwork/home</a>. </font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><br></font><div><font color="#000000">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Lisa Johnston</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Research Data Management/Curation Lead </font></div><div><font color="#000000">and Co-Director of the University Digital Conservancy</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br>University of Minnesota Libraries</font></div><div><font color="#000000">108 Walter Library, Minneapolis, MN 55455 <br>Hangouts: <a href="mailto:ljohnsto@umn.edu" target="_blank">ljohnsto@umn.edu</a> / </font><span style="font-size:12.8px">Skype</span><font color="#000000">: ifylawwt</font></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><a href="http://lib.umn.edu/datamanagement" target="_blank">http://lib.umn.edu/datamanagement</a> | <a href="http://conservancy.umn.edu" target="_blank">http://conservancy.umn.edu</a><br><br>ORCID: <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-9240" target="_blank">http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-9240</a> </font><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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