<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Colleagues, </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I'm pleased to announce that the Data Curation Network (DCN) project was recently awarded funding <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to pilot our </span>shared staffing model for curating research data across 8 institutions.</span></div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Our 3-year implementation phase brings together these initial eight partner institutions: </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of Minnesota Libraries, Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan Library, Duke University Libraries, University Library at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell University Library, Penn State University Libraries, and the Dryad Digital Repository.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">With a pool of expert data curators to draw from --spanning a wide variety of data types and discipline-specific data formats-- the Data Curation Network enables data repositories of all sizes to better support researchers faced with a growing number of requirements to openly and ethically share their research data.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Read the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/datacurationnetwork/news">full press release</a> and find all project outputs on our website at <a href="http://datacurationnetwork.org">http://datacurationnetwork.org</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lisa Johnston</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">PI, Data Curation Network on behalf of <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/datacurationnetwork/people">our implementation team</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></div><br clear="all"><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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