Research Data in the Digital Age | University of Windsor

"Mr. Mark Leggott

Executive Director of Research Data Canada (RDC) Friday, June 9, 2017 Room 4101 Leddy Library

Leggott is touring campuses across Canada to begin a conversation between Offices of Research, IT units, libraries and faculty about managing research data.

The topic of the presentation is 'Research Data in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges'”:

Various international jurisdictions have embraced the fundamental value proposition of open access to the outputs of publicly funded research. This is being done for a number of reasons, including the desire to improve research practices, to stimulate more research, and to facilitate innovation and economic growth. In Canada, the support for Open Science and ‘Open by Default’ is nascent, best represented by individual projects like the one recently announced by the Montreal Neurological Institute, which has committed to release all research and data emerging from their efforts as open by default for 5 years. This session will provide the context in Canada as well as internationally, and discuss the opportunities and challenges to adopting an ‘Open by Default’ approach to the dissemination of publicly funded research. The session will encourage a discussion of issues from through the lens of researchers, funders, and groups that provide support for research data management.

RDC is an organization dedicated to supporting Canadian innovation by improving the management of research data."