by Caroline Winter | 15 April 2022 | English, Observations and Responses, Responses
Data, famously, just wants to be free. But it might also be said that data just wants to dance. Digital data is notably social at heart. Its binary form enables it to mingle easily with other digital data. Machine reading technologies mean that data can communicate directly with other data, bypassing human mediation. This potential for social capability has given rise to data management techniques that favour comparison, correlation and conformity and are built on value systems that prioritise precision, simplification and efficiency.
by Caroline Winter | 1 April 2022 | English, Observations and Responses, Responses
On June 1, 2021, the Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQ) announced they had joined cOAlition S, making them the first public organization in North America to apply the principles of Plan S, effective March 2023. An ambitious initiative launched in 2018 by a group of European organizations under the name cOAlition S, Plan S aims to implement immediate open access to scholarly publications based on research projects funded by their members.
by Caroline Winter | 18 March 2022 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
open, community-led research infrastructure and works toward coordinated and sustainable funding models. In August 2021, IOI released the final report from the Future of Open Scholarship (FOS) project. This research project aims to develop a sustainable, open model for research infrastructure, which IOI defines on its website as “the sets of services, protocols, standards and software that the academic ecosystem needs in order to perform its functions throughout the research lifecycle.”
by Caroline Winter | 4 March 2022 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
In January 2018, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) began a collaboration with OpenAIRE, a European Open Science infrastructure organization, with the goal of improving the visibility of Canadian research. One of the outcomes of this collaboration is Canada Explore, a portal to research in Canadian institutional repositories.
by Caroline Winter | 11 February 2022 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
The National Heritage Digitisation Strategy (NHDS) is part of a long history of digitizing cultural heritage materials that has been ongoing in the Canadian scholarly and heritage communities since at least the 1960s, moving in step with developments in digital technologies, including the world wide web. This history includes digitization strategies developed by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) starting in the 1970s, the digital libraries initiative of the 1990s, and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and Canadiana in the 2000s.
by Caroline Winter | 28 January 2022 | English, Observations, Observations and Responses
In May 2018, Canada’s Tri-Agency released a draft Research Data Management (RDM) Policy for Consultation, one of several policies related to data management, including the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications (2015) and the Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management (2016) (see “Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy”). The final Tri-Agency RDM Policy was released in March 2021 (see “Update: Research Data Management in Canada”).
