February 13, 2024, 4-4:30 pm EST

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Presented by: Amber Leahey

Duration: 30 minutes

Description: Odesi (https://odesi.ca) is an open, Canadian social science data repository and online exploration and analysis tool. Odesi hosts over 5,700 datasets, curated and preserved by academic libraries in Canada. Odesi contains Canadian public opinion polls, Statistics Canada public use microdata, aggregate data, licensed data, census data, and more. In October 2023, Odesi’s backend repository officially migrated to Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, with new connected tools to support deposit, curation, reuse, searching, exploration, and analysis. Odesi allows researchers to search for survey questions (variables) across thousands of datasets, supporting rich discovery and basic tabulation and analysis online. In this session we will provide an overview of Odesi and available features, highlighting ways researchers can search, explore, and reuse data in the collections.

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Biography

Amber Leahey is the Service Director for Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository and the Data & GIS Librarian at Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries. At Scholars Portal and Borealis, she supports national infrastructure development for libraries and researchers, community engagement and training, stakeholder and governance relations, participates in various Alliance RDM Expert and Working Groups, and research projects alongside community and institutional partners, including the recent Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership Project (CCDDP), a national SSHRC funded partnership project to improve discovery and access to historical and current Census data in all formats for use in research.