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Building a Community of Canadian Dataverse Collection Administrators: Consortial Collaboration and Communities of Practice
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In response to the open science movement and the growth of funder and journal policies, researchers are increasingly looking for support in depositing and sharing their research data. In Canada, academic libraries have provided leadership to support provisioning and coordinating research data management (RDM) support, resources, and infrastructure over the past several decades. As one example of a library-led initiative, Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository (https://borealisdata.ca/), is a national, bilingual, multidisciplinary research data repository, based on the open-source Dataverse software and provided in partnership with regional academic library consortia and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. The shared infrastructure supports over seventy-five Canadian institutions and research organizations, each managing their own collection and providing support to their local researchers. The development of the national repository is the direct result of over ten years of collaborative efforts among libraries and librarians across Canada. This chapter situates the development of the national service within the literature around consortial collaboration, communities of practice, and social learning theory. Of importance is the integral, symbiotic relationship between the development of infrastructure and the development of collaborative communities that support the sustainability and viability of the service.
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- 2025-01-01
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