Research Data Management in the Canadian Context
Emily Carlisle-Johnston, Western University
Danielle Dennie, Concordia University
Émilie Fortin, Université Laval
Elizabeth Hill, Western University
Kristi Thompson, Western University
Copyright Year: 2023
Last Update: 2024
ISBN 13: 9780771431876
Publisher: Western University
Language: English
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CC BY-NC
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This book is very comprehensive and covers material from a multitude of angles.
The material is an accurate account of research data management in the Canadian context.
I believe this book is very relevant if you are seeking to analyze a compartmentalize research data on a molecular level. This brings another dimension of data management that needs to be explored.
The material is presented in a clear manner and is easy to understand.
The framework and terminology is consistent throughout the text.
The modules allow the reader to grasp bite size chunks of material and absorb them before moving onto the next module of material.
Clear organization and vision.
There were no interface issues or conflict in navigation of this text.
No grammatical errors have been detected in the text thus far.
This material is free from inappropriate or offensive material and deals strictly with metrics and data analysis.
I am enjoying learning new avenues to interpret and incorporate data analysis as a professor of Evidence Based Medicine and Reasearch. I look forward to incorporating some of this newfound tactics in the Biostatics course upcoming this fall.
Table of Contents
- Using this Textbook
- About the Editors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: Reflections on a Career in Data Librarianship
- First Principles in Research Data Management
- A Canadian Context for Research Data Management
- Working with Data
- Considering Types of Data
- Perspectives on Research Data Management
- Glossary
- Appendix 1: Data Management Plan Template
- Appendix 2: Sample of a Completed Section of the MAMIC
- Appendix 3: Chapter 10 Exercises
- Solutions
Ancillary Material
Submit ancillary resourceAbout the Book
Research Data Management is a term for all the things that researchers do to structure, organize and maintain data before, during and after doing research. RDM is also an emerging discipline that is concerned with researching and developing ways to manage research data more effectively. But what is research data? Where is the push towards formal Research Data Management coming from? What are the requirements of good data management? Research Data Management in the Canadian Context: A Guide for Practitioners and Learners looks at these questions and more, all with a focus on Canadian guidelines, regulations and infrastructure.
About the Contributors
Authors
Emily Carlisle-Johnston has been Research and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Western University since 2020. She works with faculty looking to incorporate Open Educational Resources (OER) in their teaching, which includes helping faculty find and evaluate OER, assessing licensing options for re-use and adaptation of OER, and supporting the use of Open publishing software such as Pressbooks. Prior to this role she worked at eCampusOntario, where she led the editorial workflows for creation of OER. Emily completed the SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow program in 2022. ORCID: 0000-0002-5391-723X
Danielle Dennie has been the Head, Vanier Library at Concordia University in Montréal since 2021. She has also been the Research Data Librarian at Concordia since 2018. She has a Masters in Applied Microbiology from INRS-Institut Armand Frappier as well as a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University. She was the lead on Concordia University’s Institutional RDM Strategy. ORCID: 0000-0003-3771-2450
Émilie Fortin has been Research Data Management and Digital Preservation Librarian at Université Laval since 2021. Prior to this, she was the librarian responsible for digital production, preservation and conservation of collections. She completed her Master’s degree in Information Science at Université de Montréal, spending a year at the Haute école de gestion in Geneva. She is involved in the Digital Research Alliance’s Preservation Expert Group as well as the Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec (PBUQ) working group on research data management, and is also a regular participant in iPRES conferences on digital preservation. ORCID: 0000-0002-9717-6840
Elizabeth Hill is the Data Librarian at Western University in London Ontario. She provides access and data literacy instruction to data sources at Western. She has an external advisor role with Statistics Canada. Elizabeth is active in various data communities and working groups in participant and leadership roles. Her research interests include supporting researchers, and she has published on topics related to data delivery systems and data librarianship in Canada. ORCID: 0000-0002-9715-238X
Kristi Thompson is the Research Data Management Librarian at Western University, and previously held positions as data librarian at the University of Windsor and data specialist at Princeton University. Kristi supports research projects, administers data archiving software, works with Western’s Research Ethics boards, and is involved at a national level with developing research data infrastructure. She co-edited the book Databrarianship: the Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice and has published on topics ranging from data anonymization algorithms to intergenerational psychology. ORCID: 0000-0002-4152-0075