Building a Dataverse Curation Guide Portage Dataverse Curation
Building a Dataverse Curation Guide Portage Dataverse Curation Guide Working Group
About us and our mission ● A subgroup of Portage’s Curation Expert Group ● From our Terms of Reference, the Working Group will: ○ Develop set of basic documentation and reference materials (i. e. a ‘guide’) that communicates best practices for curation of datasets in Dataverse ○ Engage with current Dataverse curators to solicit information related to current practices ○ Publish ‘guide’ as publicly available resource ● Expected publication data - April 2021 Intended Audience ● Data curators at all levels
Where are we up to now Spring 2020 ● WG formed ● Mission Definition ● Relation to CEG Survival Guide ● Beginning of Environmental Scan Summer Fall (now) ● Environmental Scan ● Bilingual product continues ● Data Curation Network ● Analysis of results CURATED model ● CURATION / CURATION ● Adapt and modify for Dataverse and language requirements ● Stakeholder input Winter/Spring ● Stakeholder input continues ● “Test for fit” (e. g. with CEG Survival Guide, DVN Metadata Guide) ● Editing, Approval, Translation, Publication ● Development (? )
Data Curation Network (DCN) C U R A T E D Check Understand Request Augment Transform Evaluate for FAIRness Document CEG Dataverse Curation Guide C U R A T I O N Check Consulter Understand Un peu plus en profondeur Recommend improvements Recommander Augment Améliorer Transform Transposer Include persistent IDs and a Inclure ID pérennes et les reuse licence/agreement licences/ententes de réutilisation Optimize for FAIRness Optimiser la FAIRness Note down curation activities Noter les actions réalisées
How you can help? Share your documentation with the curation community. We want to know what others are doing (and not doing) Talk Tell us what you need in a DV curation guide, or what you’d like to see, or what you don’t need. Your ideas count. Test Be a beta tester. We’ll need people to test-run the final product and give feedback. Watch for more info.
Who we are ● ● ● ● Jay Brodeur (Mc. Master University) Erin Clary (Portage) Alex Cooper (Queen’s University) Erin Mac. Pherson (Dalhousie University) Ève Paquette-Bigras (Université de Montréal) Michael Steeleworthy (Wilfrid Laurier University) Lee Wilson (Portage) With thanks to Meghan Goodchild! (QUL/SP)
Get in touch? Got a question? Get an answer! Alex Cooper (co-chair) coopera@queensu. ca Mike Steeleworthy (co-chair) msteeleworthy@wlu. ca Ève Paquette-Bigras (en français) eve. paquette-bigras@umontreal. ca
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