February 13, 2024, 3:00-4:00 pm EST

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Presented by: Erin Clary, Tristan Kuehn, Meghan Goodchild and Neha Milan

Duration: 60 minutes

Description: This session will provide an overview of three nationally-supported Research Data Management (RDM) Platforms and Services, the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR); Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository; and Lunaris, Canada’s national data discovery service.

• FRDR is a bilingual publishing platform for sharing and preserving Canadian research data in any discipline. The repository is purpose-built for large datasets and provides a curation service to assist researchers with deposit.
• Borealis is a bilingual, multidisciplinary, Canadian research data repository, supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada. Borealis supports open discovery, management, sharing, and preservation of Canadian research data via institutionally-hosted and supported collections and contains national collections such as Odesi, a curated, Canadian social science data repository and online exploration and analysis tool.
• Lunaris harvests metadata from over 100 academic, government, and research data repositories across Canada, and makes their content discoverable in a central platform that allows combined text- and map-based search.

Participants will leave this session with an understanding of how each platform can be used to support the research lifecycle.

Please stay on for the next 30-minute session to hear more about Odesi!

• Slides - Lunaris and FRDR
• Slides - Borealis

Biographies

Erin Clary is the Curation Coordinator for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. She works with a team of curators who review new dataset deposits for the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR), and as a member of the Alliance’s Curation Expert Group, she is engaged in developing resources to support a national curation community of practice.

Tristan Kuehn is the Product Lead, Discovery Services for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. He leads product strategy and development for Lunaris, the Alliance’s national data discovery platform, and collaborates with national partners on the PIDs Program in Canada.

Meghan Goodchild is the Research Data Management Librarian at Queen’s University and Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository. At Queen’s University Library, Meghan is the lead contact for research data management (RDM) and collaborates with campus partners to improve workflows and services supporting the research data lifecycle, leveraging local, regional, and national initiatives. At Borealis, Meghan participates in national research infrastructure development and developing a community of practice for institutional Dataverse Collection administrators. She has also been an active collaborator on expert groups and working groups for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, including Dataverse North Expert Group, Digital Preservation Expert Group, and the Data Curation Expert Group.

Neha Milan, the Product Lead of the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) and affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan, is responsible for supervising the continuous design and development of the FRDR Platform.