LibGuides: Research Data Services: Training

RDM Guides

Research Data Management Data Guide v.6.1 (University of British Columbia)

A comprehensive guide for Canadian researchers, which addresses the basics of data management plans, metadata and data organization, data storage and security, and data sharing and re-use.

Research Data Management Toolkit (JISC)

An online guide directing researchers, IT specialists, and those in research support roles to a wide range of research data management resources, sorted according to topic and audience.

RDM Tutorials

Explore and understand how to apply RDM to your research via these recommended resources:

CIHR RDM Learning Module (CIHR)
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research have developed a learning module on key themes, challenges, and considerations in research data management.
Parthenos Training Modules (PARTHNOS)
A series of online training modules such as "Introduction to Research Infrastructures" and "Manage, Improve and Open Up your Research Data."
MANTRA Online Modules (University of Edinburgh)
Self-directed online modules providing an introduction to research data, data management plans, organizing data, file formats and transformation, documentation and metadata, storage and security, and more.

National RDM Resources

The Portage Network, now known as the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, offers a range of training materials that span the research data life cycle.

Complete training resources (Portage/Digital Research Alliance)

The Digital Research Alliance works with stakeholders and partners to develop tools and resources to help with data management planning, access, preservation, and discovery.

Please contact info@alliancecan.ca for more information.

Webinars On Demand:
These webinars are intended for researchers, library data specialists, research data managers, and discipline and functional experts across the research data landscape.

(Some) Research Data Management Best Practices!
Using a research data lifecycle approach, this webinar will provide attendees with an overview of research data management (RDM) best practices, including both guidance and resources to help them manage their own research data. Topics covered will include such things as overarching RDM principles (e.g., FAIR, CARE, OCAP), file management and version control, file naming conventions, data storage and backup strategies, data access and sharing, and data deposit.
Support Your Research with Data Management Planning!
Data management plans, or DMPs, are one of the foundations of good research data management. This DMP-focused webinar will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, librarians, and research support stakeholders, and will provide foundational information on developing DMPs.
Support Your Research with DMP Assistant 2.0!
Building on the preceding DMP-focused webinar, Support Your Research with Data Management Planning!, this session will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, librarians, and research support stakeholders. Participants will take an in-depth look at the newly launched DMP Assistant 2.0, including all of its enhanced key features for both end-users and institutional administrators, as well as a brief look at the future of the platform.
Data Summaries: Distilling Best Practices
The longform description of deposited data is an essential resource for discovery. For searchers, it is the only text field where they can see their keywords in context, and in many federated search engines it is the only field that consistently appears on the search result page. In this presentation, Dan Phillips gives an overview of the current landscape of many general repositories including Dataverse on ScholarsPortal, Data Dryad, Figshare, and Pangaea.
RDM and Metadata for Discovery: What’s in it for Researchers?
This session discussed the secret life of your dataset metadata: the ways in which, for many years to come, it will work non-stop to foster the visibility, reach, and impact of your work. We explored how metadata will help your dataset travel through the global research infrastructure, and how data repositories and discovery services can use this (meta)data to help launch your dataset into the world.
Reducing Risk: An Introduction to Survey Data Anonymization
This webinar is intended to provide an accessible and practical introduction to the theory and concepts behind data anonymization, looking specifically at anonymization of survey microdata. Topics covered will include an overview of identifiers and quasi-identifiers, an introduction to k-anonymity, a look at some cases where k-anonymity breaks down, and anonymization hierarchies.

Research Data Services

RDM Tutorials

National RDM Resources

Webinars On Demand: These webinars are intended for researchers, library data specialists, research data managers, and discipline and functional experts across the research data landscape.

Webinars On Demand:
These webinars are intended for researchers, library data specialists, research data managers, and discipline and functional experts across the research data landscape.