Topics include Indigenous data sovereignty (from both researcher and government/organizational perspectives), HPC, research security, data sharing, and more. Most of our sessions are online and open to all.
…our registration form for online events is requesting a USask email address. We’re trying to fix that, but for now please know that any email address will work in that field!
What do researchers expect from OA journals and what do OA journals offer? Are there any regional differences in the perception of publication quality?
If you take a minute to ponder the implications, it opens up a whole Pandora’s box of integrity issues if authors can simply make alterations to their data after someone questions their work.
What happens to your research project website when funding ends? Without ongoing budgets for hosting and maintenance, and with researchers moving on, websites often disappear—along with valuable information. Don’t let this happen! Here’s our simple solution: convert your WordPress website into a static HTML site, so it’s stays visible to the world, but is hosted for free. I’ll show you exactly how to preserve your website for “eternity,” step by step.
This also works if you just want to host a website for free, and don’t need the website to change (much).
Love Data Week is a global event dedicated to celebrating data. Its aim is to raise awareness and foster a community around topics like research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, dissemination, and library-based research data services. This year's theme is "Whose data is it, anyway?"
SFU Research Computing offers weekly online sessions on advanced research computing. These sessions take place every Thursday from 10am to noon Pacific and are open to all academic researchers across Canada. Most courses span 2 weeks, although some courses may be shorter or longer.
Please note that these sessions are not recorded, as we want to encourage attendance and live interaction, and we are planning to repeat the most popular / introductory sessions throughout the year.
Unix shells such as Bash or Zsh are command line interpreters for Unix-like operating systems: the user enters commands as text—interactively in a terminal or in scripts—and the shell passes them to the operating system.
Giving instructions to the machine via text instead of using a graphical user interface (GUI) is very powerful: while automating GUI operations is really difficult, it is easy to apply commands to many files, combine commands, and rerun scripts. Unix shells thus allow the creation of reproducible workflows and the automation of repetitive tasks. They also allow to securely access remote machines and HPC clusters.
This course is a hands-on introduction to Bash and Zsh. It will teach you to login to the Alliance supercomputers and covers common commands, loops, redirections, functions, wildcards, aliases, and scripting.
Borealis will upgrade to version 6.4 on January 27, 2025. Please note the platform will be unavailable during the upgrade from approximately 6 am - 2 pm Pacific.
Is your work in the Arts & Humanities or Social Sciences?
ORCID has just made it possible to identify additional types of work in your ORCID record that may be of interest:
ORCID now supports new work types that allow users to correctly identify outputs common to the arts and humanities.
Design: Plans, drawing or set of drawings showing how something e.g. building, product is to be made and how it will work and look.
Image: A visual representation other than text, a still image.
Moving image: A moving display, either generated dynamically by a computer program or formed from a series of pre-recorded still images imparting an impression of motion when shown in succession.
Sound: A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds.
Musical composition: Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music.
Blog post: A piece of writing or other item of content published on a blog.
Conference presentation: A set of slides containing text, tables or figures, designed to communicate ideas or research results, for projection and viewing by an audience at a conference, symposium, seminar, lecture, workshop or other gatherings.
Conference proceedings: Conference proceedings is the official record of a conference meeting. It is a collection of documents which corresponds to the presentations given at the conference. It may include additional content.
Clinical study: A work that reports on the results of a research study to evaluate interventions or exposures on biomedical or health-related outcomes. The two main types of clinical studies are interventional studies (clinical trials) and observational studies. While most clinical studies concern humans, this publication type may be used for clinical veterinary articles meeting the requisites for humans.
Learning object: Teaching material. A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments.
Cartographic Material: Any material representing the whole or part of the earth or any celestial body at any scale. Cartographic materials include two- and three-dimensional maps and plans (including maps of imaginary places); aeronautical, navigational, and celestial charts; atlases; globes; block diagrams; sections; aerial photographs with a cartographic purpose; bird’s-eye views (map views), etc
Transcription: A written record of words spoken in court proceedings or in a speech, interview, broadcast, or sound recording.
Public Speech: (new work type; not mapped to COAR.) An oral presentation of information to the public. Including talks, interviews and podcasts.
The Digital Research Alliance of Canada and the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) curation team are excited to invite you to join us for presentation, "Sharing and depositing research data: a guide for researchers" The webinar will take place on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, from 1:00pm to 2:00pm ET.
In celebration of Love Data Week (February 10-14), the Digital Research Alliance of Canada is celebrating data and raising global awareness of the importance of managing and sharing research data. As part of the global agenda, the FRDR curation team will present a webinar on effective methods for structuring and preparing research data for sharing in general data repositories such as the FRDR. These good scientific practices are essential to make research data a self-sustaining resource that can be understood and reused by the scientific community and the public for academic or research purposes.
Presented by: Daniel Manrique-Castano, Curation Officer, Digital Research Alliance of Canada
