Excellence in innovation requires excellent management of data
The flow of information and ideas amongst researchers is fundamental to the discovery and innovation process. Making certain Canada's research data is accessible and usable for current and future generations is imperative to ensuring that Canadian researchers remain at the leading edge of R&D in Canada and around the world.
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NRC-CISTI has introduced improvements to its Gateway to Scientific Data, including a new keyword search functionality and a streamlined suggestion process that lets users submit their ideas for new resources to subject-area specialists. CODATA will work with NRC-CISTI to evaluate the suggested resources.

CISTI signed a Memorandum of Understanding on June 22, 2009, to become a member of DataCite, the international initiative to facilitate access to research data.

DataCite is a not-for-profit partnership of seven libraries: CISTI, the German National Library of Science and Technology, the British Library, the library of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (France), the Technical Information Center of Denmark, and Delft University of Technology Library (Netherlands). The goal of this partnership is to improve access to research data by enabling organizations to register research data sets and assign digital object identifiers (DOIs) to them. The long-term vision is to help researchers locate, identify, and cite research datasets with confidence.

The full Working Group convened for a meeting on June 8 at NRC-CISTI (National Research Council Canada). [Minutes of Meeting in PDF Format – 96 Kb]

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Reaction to Stewardship of research data in Canada: A gap analysis

Lorcan Dempsey
Research Information Network
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Launch of the Research Data Strategy Working Group officially announced. [More]

Second meeting of Working Group. The full Working Group convened for a second meeting at NRC-CISTI (National Research Council Canada). Task Groups presented progress, and the communication plan was reviewed.

First meeting of Chair with all Task Group Leads. The Chair and Task Group Leads met to report on progress of each Group.

First meeting of Task Group 4 (Training Program). Task Group 4 members met to define the Task Group mandate and decide on a suitable strategy.

First meeting of Task Group 2 (Current State). Task Group 2 members met to review the strategy and fine-tune the environmental survey topics.

First (Inaugural) Working Group Meeting. The Working Group was convened for the first time, in Ottawa and sponsored by NRC-CISTI (National Research Council Canada), in a full day meeting during which common interests and strategies were presented and discussed. Lucille Nowell of the (United States) National Science Foundation (NSF) was an invited speaker, and presented the directions being taken by the NSF, which include significant funding opportunities for international, collaborative efforts.

There was unanimous agreement that the issue of research data management in Canada be strongly pursued by this group, who furthermore jointly agreed on the formation of the 4 Task Groups. The Leads for most of these Task Groups were identified at this meeting, prospective new members were suggested, and it was agreed to move forward aggressively and meet again as a group within 6 months.