Volunteers Needed – for help in improving the Federated Research Data Repository platform

Portage, Compute Canada (CC) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) are collaborating to provide a scalable federated platform for digital research data management (RDM) and discovery.

The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) will address a longstanding gap in Canada's research infrastructure by providing a single platform from which research data can be ingested, curated, preserved, discovered, cited and shared. The platform's federated search tool will provide a focal point to discover and access Canadian research data, while the range of services provided by FRDR will help researchers store and manage their data, preserve their research for future use, and comply with institutional and funding agency data management requirements.

The FRDR team are pleased to announce that the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) service has finished Beta and is now in Limited Production. They would like to ask for your help in improving the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR). 

The FRDR team are looking for graduate students or faculty from a range of disciplines and regions across Canada who are willing to try out FRDR and give feedback while using it. The session will last one hour and will be conducted through WebEx.

Eligible participants must:

• be new to FRDR,
• collect research data that could potentially be published in a repository (not required for the usability testing), and
• be a graduate student or faculty member.

David Pinelle, a Computation Research Manager in the Social Sciences Research Laboratories at the University of Saskatchewan, is running the usability testing sessions. If you are willing to participate, or know someone who is, please email david.pinelle@usask.ca, and he will follow up to schedule a testing session.