Expanding Canada’s Research Data Eco-system: Repositories as enablers in overcoming cultural hurdles

Canada has made some progress towards data management as a result of the Data Liberation Initiative. We have trained data librarians to mark up data in the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard. This has led to the emergence of tools for access such as odesi and equinox. While this looks like a promising start, researcher-generated data under the auspices of granting councils are largely missing in action. Why?

This presentation will focus on the missing pieces in the research data management puzzle and the role of repositories in completing the picture.