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Call for Expressions of Interest: FRDR Service Model Working Group

Portage is establishing a working group to develop a distributed service model for the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR). This is your opportunity to help build a community of practice around this specific data discovery and repository platform. We are looking for volunteers who will provide recommendations of best practices for a distributed service model; will help identify priorities for the launch of this service and beyond; and will review the draft Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and user documentation for the service. This group will be instrumental in aligning FRDR with the needs of Canadian researchers and those supporting research data on local campuses. Lee Wilson, the Portage Interim Service Manager and a member of the Compute Canada FRDR development team, will chair this group and directly communicate this group’s recommendations to the FRDR developers. For further information, please see the Terms of Reference for this working group.

We are now seeking volunteers from the Portage Expert Group community to join this Working Group. If you would like to participate or to recommend a colleague, please contact Lee Wilson (Interim Service Manager) and Chuck Humphrey (Portage Director) with a brief expression of interest. We are asking that you respond by August 07 2017.

Save the Date! Portage and RDM in Canada, Montréal, Sept. 18 2017

Save this date!
Save your data!

Portage and Research Data Management in Canada is a day of activities that you will want to attend on Monday, September 18th, 2017 at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montreal, QC. The Portage Network is hosting three events on this day, which are being held in conjunction with the Tenth Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), scheduled for September 19-21.

We invite you to join this gathering of a national community of practice for research data management in Canada! A day of speakers, panels and workshops are planned with the following groups in mind: contributors to Portage expert and working groups, graduate students and researchers, those providing research data management (RDM) support on local campuses, and individuals from RDM stakeholder groups, such as funding agencies and organizations representing professionals who provide research services. The event is an excellent opportunity to connect Canada’s RDM community of practice with the RDA international community, sharing and learning from the experiences of one another.

The day of activities begins with a morning plenary session that will open with a keynote address providing an account of RDM in Canada today and its future directions. Following the keynote will be a panel discussion that brings together the Chairs of the Portage Expert Groups to discuss the various ways their groups are helping to move RDM forward in Canada.

In the afternoon, participants will be offered a choice between two workshops:

Portage and Data Management Plans in Canada: The Policies, Templates, and Platform
This workshop will provide an overview of data management plans and their value to researchers and those involved in providing research services on campus. Practical instruction on the use of the Portage Data Stewardship template and the online DMP Assistant platform will be provided. This session is directed at students, researchers and data managers.

Portage Supported Research Data Management Platforms
This workshop will provide an overview of Portage-supported RDM platforms with an examination of the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) and Dataverse. This will allow participants to review key considerations and opportunities for integrating these platforms into local data services. This workshop is directed primarily at librarians and research data managers.

There will be no registration fee for these events, however, participants will be required to register in advance. Please note that registration for the workshops will be limited on a first register, first serve basis. Stay tuned for more details and registration information. If you have any questions, please contact Jane Fry (jane.fry@carleton.ca) Chair, Portage Training Expert Group.

Appointment of Lee Wilson as Interim Portage Service Manager

Lee Wilson, Portage Service Manager

OTTAWA (ON), July 11 2017 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and Portage are pleased to announce Lee Wilson, Research Consultant, ACENET, has been seconded to the position of Portage Service Manager. In this role, Mr. Wilson will support Portage in developing and delivering research data management services across Canada both directly and through partnerships with other organizations. His initial focus will be to organize the policies, operations, and the business model for the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) service. FRDR is a two-year software development project between Compute Canada and CARL/Portage that is now in beta testing. Mr. Wilson joins CARL/Portage with strong connections within Compute Canada and is already assisting the FRDR development team with preparing policies, such as, a Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Wilson joined ACENET in 2017 as a Research Consultant for data management, providing specialized training and consultation to help researchers at all stages of the research data life cycle. Mr. Wilson has also worked with the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response (MEOPAR) Network’s Data Management project, solving issues related to the storage, discovery, and accessibility of ocean data. Mr. Wilson holds a BA (English) from Mount Allison University and a Master of Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University.

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About CARL and Portage

CARL provides leadership on behalf of Canada’s research libraries, promotes effective and sustainable knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation, and enhances its members’ capacity to advance research and higher education. CARL members include Canada’s 29 largest university libraries and two federal institutions. CARL has launched Portage, comprising a library-based network of expertise on Research Data Management (RDM) and national platforms for planning, preserving, and discovering research data.

Summary of Portage Outreach Activities: May and June 2017

July 10 2017 – Portage has been engaged in various outreach activities as part of a busy summer schedule promoting research data management (RDM) to member institutions of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and other RDM stakeholders.

In early May, the Portage Director presented the keynote address at the University of Alberta RDM Week and spoke about Portage developing a Canadian community of practice to support local campuses in their delivery of research data services. Later in May, he met with members of the York University RDM Working Group in a round table discussion and gave a public presentation on Portage and RDM to York University’s researchers, librarians, and administrators. Also in the same month, at the Canadian Health Libraries Association he taught a half-day continuing education course on data management plans to participants from academic and hospital libraries. In June, Dalhousie University Libraries hosted the Director where he participated in a round table discussion with representatives from the research services, ethics, and Vice-President Research offices, as well as the libraries. He also made a public presentation on the shared stewardship of research data to Dalhousie staff.

Portage has also been represented at a number of conferences involving stakeholders in the Canadian RDM realm. For instance, Jeff Moon (Chair of the Portage Data Management Planning Expert Group) and the Portage Director were members of a panel that discussed collaboration between research service offices and libraries at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Research Administrators in Winnipeg, MB. Jane Fry, Carol Perry, and James Doiron, experts with the Portage Training Group, spoke at a session on national infrastructure initiatives at the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology conference in the U.S. The Portage Director also represented Portage on panel discussions at the CASRAI Reconnect Canada conference in Montreal, QC and at the High Performance Computing Symposium in Kingston, ON. Most recently, the Portage Director and Mark Leggott, Executive Director at Research Data Canada, co-chaired a successful RDM breakout session at the Leadership Council for Digital Research Infrastructure (LCDRI) Summit in Toronto, ON, which provided an opportunity to discuss a position paper on RDM with a variety of interested stakeholders. This paper, along with some other LCDRI position statements, will be packaged and presented to the federal government at the end of August.

Looking ahead to the rest of the summer, the Portage Director will be forming a cross-stakeholder working group to prepare guidance materials on institutional strategies for research data management. He will also complete the terms of reference for another cross-stakeholder group that will develop extended data management plan guidelines for the ethical treatment of research data. He is also working with Sally Rutherford, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies, to develop a RDM train-the-trainers workshop for graduate students. Finally, he is looking forward to spending some time with a new grandson born on July 5th.

Portage Council of Chairs Hold Second Annual Meeting

OTTAWA, June 16 2017 – The Portage Council of Chairs held their second annual in-person meeting on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at the CANARIE Headquarters, in Ottawa, Ontario.

The Chairs of the Portage expert groups gathered to plan and coordinate the operation of the Network of Expertise. This full-day meeting involved discussion on accomplishments over the past year, plans for each expert group going into 2018, areas needing coordination among expert groups, and budget items associated with each group’s planned activities.

More information about the Council is available on the Portage website

Back row (left to right): Lee Wilson, Dylanne Dearborn, Lisa Goddard, Jane Fry, Jeff Moon, Eugene Barsky, Chuck Humphrey, Umar Qasim;
Front row (left to right): Shahira Khair, Julie Morin, Susan Haigh, Jay Brodeur, Kathleen Shearer

About Portage:

Portage is a national research data management initiative to assist researchers and other research data management stakeholders through a library-based network of expertise on RDM and national platforms for planning, preserving, and discovering research data. Portage is managed by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL).

Compute Canada and CARL-Portage Announce Start of Beta Testing Stage in FRDR Development

OTTAWA, June 16 2017 – Compute Canada and the Canadian Association of Research Library’s Portage network are pleased to announce that their work towards the development of the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) has advanced to the beta testing stage. At this point, both the user interface and the underlying functionality of the software is being evaluated. Testing will be based on a wide range of users depositing a variety of datasets. In addition, information will be gathered on the reactions of users with varying degrees of familiarity with data repositories.

For more information on FRDR, including a video demonstration of the beta platform, please visit portagenetwork.ca/frdr-dfdr.

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About Portage:
Portage is a national research data management initiative to assist researchers and other research data management stakeholders through a library-based network of expertise on RDM and national platforms for planning, preserving, and discovering research data. Portage is managed by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL).


About Compute Canada:
Compute Canada, in partnership with regional organizations ACENET, Calcul Québec, Compute Ontario and WestGrid, leads the acceleration of research innovation by deploying state-of-the-art advanced research computing (ARC) systems, storage and software solutions. Together we provide essential ARC services and infrastructure for Canadian researchers and their collaborators in all academic and industrial sectors. Our world-class team of more than 200 experts employed by 37 partner universities and research institutions across the country provide direct support to research teams. Compute Canada is a proud ambassador for Canadian excellence in advanced research computing nationally and internationally.

CARL and CAUL-CBUA Collaborate to Advance Data Management and Digital Preservation Needs of the Canadian Research Community

 

June 12 2017 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the Council of Atlantic University Libraries / Conseil des bibliothèques universitaires de l’Atlantique (CAUL-CBUA) announced today the signing of an agreement that will see both organizations work together to advance regional and national issues relating to the data management and digital preservation needs of the Canadian research community.

This partnership brings together the collective expertise, resources and influence from CAUL-CBUA member institutions and CARL’s Portage Network to focus on building connections between research data management and effective digital preservation.

Chuck Humphrey, Director of the CARL Portage Network, stated that “the expertise of CAUL-CBUA member institutions will assist Portage in building nation-wide communities of practice for the management and long-term preservation of research data”. Donna Bourne-Tyson, CARL President and Vice-Chair of CAUL-CBUA, commented that both organizations “will work together to enhance communications and create formal mechanisms for effective CAUL-CBUA-wide engagement with Portage”.

Marc Truitt, Chair of CAUL-CBUA and University Librarian at Mount Allison University, noted that “this relationship with Portage will provide CAUL-CBUA member institutions with a ‘seat at the table’ with other stakeholders in the mainstream of Canadian research data management and preservation practice. It will enable us to draw on the experiences of other communities, while simultaneously contributing to the larger conversation the many lessons we’ve learned in Atlantic Canada.”

About CARL and Portage

CARL provides leadership on behalf of Canada’s research libraries, promotes effective and sustainable knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation, and enhances its members’ capacity to advance research and higher education. CARL members include Canada’s 29 largest university libraries and two federal institutions. CARL has launched Portage, comprising a library-based network of expertise on Research Data Management (RDM) and national platforms for planning, preserving, and discovering research data.

About CAUL-CBUA

CAUL-CBUA is a collaborative partnership of 19 post-secondary institutions in Atlantic Canada. It is a dynamic community of librarians and library staff bringing valuable experience and a willingness to ensure the best quality of service to meet user needs. All members of the consortium are actively involved in pursuing innovative and cost-effective ways to benefit our faculty and students. Collaboration maximizes benefits to, and builds capacity within, our member institutions.

Contacts:

Chuck Humphrey
Director, Portage
chuck.humphrey@ulberta.ca
780-492-9216

Marc Truitt
Chair, CAUL-CBUA
mtruitt@mta.ca
506-364-2567

Update on the LCDRI Data Management Working Group

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, June 05, 2017 – The Leadership Council for Digital Research Infrastructure (LCDRI) Data Management Working Group has held monthly meetings since January 2017 to prepare for the upcoming National LCDRI Summit in Toronto, ON, scheduled June 27th 2017. A position paper on digital research infrastructure in Canada will be discussed at the Summit, after which the LCDRI will present a final version containing recommendations to Minister Duncan of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development. Data management is one of the key components of digital research infrastructure described in this report. To date, this group has helped define the properties making up data management, developed commonly accepted terms and definitions for data management, and described key data management functions and organizational roles to identify potential gaps and opportunities within the current Canadian system.

About the LCDRI Data Management Working Group

The LCDRI Secretariat was funded by the federal government in November 2016 to develop position papers on research data management and advanced research computing in the context of the Canadian research infrastructure landscape. The LCDRI Data Management Working Group is led by Robbin Tourangeau, with representatives from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL),  Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI), the Portage Network, and Research Data Canada (RDC).

Portage Training Expert Group Releases RDM Primer

12 May 2017 – The Portage Training Expert Group has released a two-page primer document on research data management aimed at informing a general audience about research data, its life-cycle and management. The primer is available in both official languages and is released under a CC-BY license.

 

 

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