Research Data Management

Maintaining good data management practices is critical for the success of research projects. The Portage Network is the main federal group in Canada tasked with shared stewardship of Canadian research data. They were launched by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries in 2015. For more support for research data management you can contact Portage directly, or speak to your local Compute Canada regional partner and they will get you connected. Below is a list of commonly helpful resources for research data managemnet.

Resources for Research Data Management

Best Practices

• D.B. Deutz, M.C.H. Buss, J. S. Hansen, K. K. Hansen, K.G. Kjelmann, A.V. Larsen, E. Vlachos, K.F. Holmstrand (2020). How to FAIR: a Danish website to guide researchers on making research data more FAIR
• Woeber, C. A. (2017). Towards best practice in research data management in the humanities. Retrieved from http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/6620/paper_acces s.pdf?sequence=4

Data Curation

• DH Curation Guide: a community resource guide to data curation in the digital humanities

Data Licensing

• Digital Curation Centre Data Licensing Guide

Data Management Planning (DMP)

• Portage Data Management Plan (DMP) Assistant
• ACENET Presentation on Data Management Planning
• Creating a Data Management Plan (DMP) guide from Portage (English/French)
• Exemplar Data Management Plans (DMP):

• Digital Humanities (English/French)
• Digital Humanities and Secondary Data (English/French)
• Mixed Methods (English/French)

Metadata

• RDA Metadata Standards Directory

Persistent Digital Identifiers

• ORCID

Policy Requirements

• Tri-Agency RDM Policy (draft) -2018

Repositories

• Repository Options in Canada: A Portage Guide
• Federal Research Data Repository

Sensitive Data

• Example of Sensitive data RDM toolkit at Memorial University
• ACENET Presentation on Sensitive Data

Terminology

• CASRAI Research Data Management Glossary