RDM & Scholarly Communication News @ VIU Library

From the creators of the Community Research Data Toolkit: 

We're excited to share the launch of the Community Research Data Toolkit which can now be accessed in open-access formats and adapted for use. There are also tool templates within the pressbook can be downloaded separately.

This toolkit aims to reframe data management for community research work, with templates for conversational data management plans, establishing roles and responsibilities, and ways for communities to be involved in controlling access to data once the project is complete. 

More information: 

https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/communitydatatoolkit/

From the Digital Research Alliance of Canada: 

Date: 2 October 2025 [@ 11:30 am Pacific]

In this webinar, we will briefly review what a data management plan (DMP) is and how it supports data management across the research lifecycle, the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy and related funding requirements, and the DMP Assistant platform. It will then focus on the Alliance Simplified Template and the newly published accompanying Rubric, which together help researchers meet DMP requirements. The session will be presented by James Doiron (University of Alberta), DMPEG Co-Chair.

Cost basis: Free to all

Please note these upcoming learning opportunities featured in the Alliance Newsletter – July 2025:

Training opportunities 
Here is a selection of upcoming training events from our partners:  

• August 6 – Introduction to Git and GitHub: Part 1
• August 20 – Building Project Websites with Jekyll and GitHub Pages
• August 25 – Data Bites - Creating a Data Management Plan (DMP)
• August 28 – Introduction to APIs

Discover more training opportunities through Explora

From the Alliance Newsletter – July 2025:

Presentation materials from RDM Jumpstart are now available online. This week-long workshop in May addressed the importance and main principles of research data management (RDM), while exploring the increase in RDM requirements by funders and publishers.

Presentation files are linked from each calendar event. 

https://explora.alliancecan.ca/

Search Explora for workshops, webinars, bootcamps, and other training events across Canada designed to help researchers at any career stage develop skills in advanced research computing, research data management, and research software.

Upcoming offerings include: 

Online
Data Bites - File Naming Best Practices for Research Data
30 June 2025 @ 12:30 - 13:00
UBC Library

Online
Webinar "Practical Multidimensional Arrays and Linear Algebra in C++"
2 July 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:00
SHARCNET

Online
Introduction to SQL
2 July 2025 @ 11:00 - 13:00
UBC Library

Online
Introduction to Regular Expressions, part 2
2 July 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:30
UBC Library

Online
Data Bites - Choosing File Formats for Research Data
7 July 2025 @ 12:30 - 13:00
UBC Library

If you use the DMP Assistant to support data management planning, please note this upcoming maintenance window for the DMP Assistant service as it migrates to new infrastructure:

May 21, 2025 8:30 to 11 am PT

We were unable to deliver the migration [on May 15] during the maintenance window. We will schedule a second outage for Wednesday, May 21, 2025, from 08:30-11:00 PT in order to complete this work.

Updates will be posted at this link: https://status.alliancecan.ca/view_incident?incident=1316

UBC Data Bites workshops are now available for sign up for the summer term, and open to the public. These workshops support skill building in a wide range of research data management topics and task. 

Session topics and registration:

https://bit.ly/Databites

Recordings from WestDRI's seminar series are made available through their YouTube channel.

WestDRI is part of the Research Computing Group at SFU (https://www.rcg.sfu.ca), offers a range of tutorials and online workshops targeted at helping researchers learn about and use SFU and Digital Research Alliance of Canada (https://alliancecan.ca) computing resources, as well as advanced skills in computational research. 

Sessions range in length from 30 minutes to two hours and are delivered online via Zoom. For more information, visit https://training.westdri.ca or email training@westdri.ca.