Come learn about:

• data management planning 
• data storage and access options 
• finding reusable research data 
• data sharing 
• data citations 

... and many more data-related topics!

View the full Research Data Management Week schedule and register now for sessions!

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This year, Compute Canada is offering post-RDM Week workshops focusing on data & software carpentry, as well as on West Grid scheduling.

Research Data Management (RDM) practices are evolving, and the 2016 Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management demonstrates both the importance of RDM and the challenges faced by researchers and institutions regarding the management of research data. Data Management Plans, metadata standards, data archiving, and data sharing and re-purposing are all becoming norms within the research landscape.

From the creation and collection of data to their long-term preservation, over twenty RDM-related talks and workshops have been organized to help you better understand and apply research data management best practices! 

Looking for survey data on public opinion here in Alberta? Check out the Alberta Survey.

Thirty-five years of Alberta Survey data is available in Dataverse, the University of Alberta Libraries’ data repository. The Alberta Survey, previously known as the Edmonton Area Survey and the All Alberta Survey, measures the public opinion of Albertans on a diverse range of public policy concerns.  Survey data, collected between 1977 and 2014, was compiled by UAlberta’s Population Research Lab in the Department of Sociology.

Each dataset in Dataverse includes a downloadable SPSS data file, a codebook, and a methodology report. Survey data can be searched and manipulated within Dataverse, including the ability to search for unique variables across datasets, and perform advanced statistical analyses.

Check out the Alberta Survey data in Dataverse.
Need help?  Contact data library staff.

You are invited to participate in the 3rd annual Research Data Management Week from May 2-6, 2016!

The standards and practices relating to the management of research data are evolving. Canada's research councils are increasingly advocating for researchers to incorporate data management into their research and to make the results of the research that they fund as accessible as possible. Researchers are faced with challenges relating to ensuring data security and confidentiality while an increasing number of scholarly journals are requiring authors to provide access to the data behind their submissions for publication. Data repositories are being established in domains and institutions to support the sharing and preservation of research data, and the University of Alberta's Research Policy directly addresses the stewardship of research records, with an emphasis on the long-term preservation of data.

Over 20 talks and workshops have been organized to help you better prepare for this evolving global research data ecosystem! 

Keynote speaker Mark Leggot, Executive Director at Research Data Canada will start the week with "The Evolving Data Landscape" (May 2nd at 10:00am).

Come listen to other exciting guest speakers from Alberta Innovates: Health Solutions, The City of Edmonton, and Edmonton Public Libraries.

Research Data Management Week sessions include:

NEW: This year Compute Canada is offering both pre & post RDM week workshops focusing upon software carpentry, as well as West Grid scheduling. View the full Research Data Management Week schedule and register for sessions!

<odesi>, a web-based data exploration, extraction, and analysis tool, lets you search for survey questions across thousands of datasets held in a growing number of collections, and supports basic tabulation and analysis online. It also allows for the downloading of most datasets into statistical software for further analysis.  

<odesi> gathers data from a number of sources.  You have the option to search across all data sets, or to narrow your focus to certain collections, which include:

• Statistics Canada: Public-use microdata files (PUMFs) and aggregate data products made available to subscribers of the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI). Data includes socio-economic indicators, business and financial databases, census microdata and aggregate data, social surveys, education, crime, health, and more.
• Public Opinion Polls: Historical Canadian public opinion polling data from Gallup.
• Other Canadian Data: Studies from other Canadian data sources, including the Canadian Millenial Scholarship Foundation, the Canadian Policy Research Network, and the Institute for Social Research.
• CORA: Researcher data and surveys from the Canadian Opinion Research Archive.
• ICPSR: Metadata from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research.  Note that while the metadata is available to everyone through <odesi>, only some schools will have access to the actual data files. These must be accessed through the ICPSR website. Links are provided where possible.

<odesi> is always expanding its survey data to include other national and international data sources.

<odesi> can be used for all types of research; some example topics include education, health, the environment, social, and economic well-being of populations within Canada and abroad. In <odesi> it is possible to build charts, tables, look at trends over time, and produce correlations.

• Access <odesi> through the University of Alberta Libraries web site.
• Request an appointment with one of the members of our Data Library to get help using <odesi>.