Members of the Data Services team have aggregated a list of resources, data sets, projects, and other information on Indigenous Peoples Day. We hope that you are able to make use of them in your teaching, research, and learning.

So far, the network has curated over 30 datasets that pertain to a range of disciplines, and these datasets have been documented and deposited in repositories across the United States. A recent impact statement by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) notes the educative role the DCN holds in promoting well-documented and curated data practices in many library settings. The DCN has released a range of activities, best practices, and guides to help institutions provide data access.

Although NYU’s involvement with the Data Curation Network is represented by Katie Wissel, Data Services Librarian, and Andrew Battista, Librarian for Geospatial Information Systems, we note that the Libraries has several people who have engaged with the project’s work, including Vicky Steeves, Librarian for Research Data Management, Nick Wolf, Research Data Management Librarian, Genevieve Milliken, who is co-authoring one of the DCN Primers, and Kevin Read and Nicole Contaxis of the NYU Medical Library and data catalog, who have attended DCN training events and also participate in the Data Catalog Collaboration Project (DCCP) for fostering discovery and use of biomedical data.

What does this mean for the NYU research community?

Now that NYU Libraries has joined the DCN, we invest a portion of our time to curate datasets that researchers at other institutions submit. However, it also means that we can benefit from the larger network of knowledge held by the other 25-plus curators.

• Anyone in the NYU community who is interested in contributing research data (to any repository) can reach out to us and receive assistance curating data.
• Data Services will begin working to apply data curation principles as we acquire licensed data and make it available to the NYU community.

We are excited about our partnership and look forward to a growing organization of curated data and shared labor.

“I was lucky enough to attend the ICQI 2016 conference last week in Champagne at the University of Illinois. We managed to speak to a lot of people about using Quirkos, but there were hundreds of other talks, and here are some pointers from just a few of them!

1. Qualitative research is like being at high school
Johnny Saldaña’s keynote described (with cutting accuracy) the research cliques that people tend to stick to. It’s important for us to try and think outside these methodological or topic boxes, and learn from other people doing things in different ways. With so many varied sessions and hundreds of talks, conferences like ICQI 2016 are great places to do this.

We were also treated to clips from high school movies, and our own Qualitative High School song! The Digital Tools thread got their own theme song: a list of all the different qualitative analysis software packages sung to the tune of ‘ABC’ – the nursery rhyme, not the Jackson 5 hit!”

Read the last 6 things learned here: http://www.quirkos.com/blog/post/international-congress-qualitative-inquiry-icqi2016