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What is “Open Data” Anyway? An Introduction to Licensing and Copyright for Research Data in Canada
This event was a collaboration between the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Borealis, and the Alliance’s Curation Events Working Group. In the ever-evolving digital landscape, the management of research data, including data licensing an…
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Digital Research Alliance of Canada: Cybersecurity Awareness Month
The Alliance participates in Cybersecurity Awareness Month each year in October to help train and support Canadian researchers with the latest cybersecurity practices to help safeguard them and their research. In 2023, the Cybersecurity Tra…
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Statistics Canada Data Literacy Training
A suite of training videos from the Data Literacy Training Initiative, aimed at those who are new to data or those who have some experience with data but may need a refresher or want to expand their knowledge.…
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Planet.com
Planet.com is a portal where U of T students, staff, and faculty can download satellite imagery of the earth. Use Planet.com to view regional change over time (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly). Several kinds of imagery, including 3 and 4-…
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GitHub
GitHub is a website offering storage and collaboration tools for software development, based on the version control system Git. Commonly used to host opensource software, it can also be used to host datasets.…
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First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC)
FNIGC does a wide range of work including research, training, capacity building, and knowledge translation, but there foundational work involves data gathering initiatives on- reserve and in Northern First Nations communities.…
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Online Training Modules: Integrating Sex & Gender in Health Research
These interactive modules by CIHR are designed to help researchers and peer reviewers account for and appropriately assess the integration of sex and gender across multiple areas of health research.…
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Digital Preservation and Recovery Services
U of T Library's Digital Preservation and Recovery Service offers tools and services to manage digital content, such as digital preservation, data recovery or media carrier preservation, and more.…
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The Carpentries
The Carpentries builds global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry com…
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Advanced Research Computing @ U of T Video
This introduction video describes institution-wide advanced research computing resources available through the University including: SciNet and Compute Canada; The Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP); and Project J…
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Introduction to R Online Course
Through a combination of videos, web pages, quizzes, and activities, this self-paced online course will provide an introduction to R using RStudio. The topics covered are importing and exploring data, graphs, managing data, tidyverse and R …
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Working with Messy Data in OpenRefine Online Course
Through a combination of videos, web pages, quizzes, and activities, this self-paced online course will provide an introduction to OpenRefine, a powerful open source tool for exploring, cleaning and manipulating “messy” data.…
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Digital Scholarship Services at UTL
Digital Scholarship Services at the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) supports research using digital methods and tools (e.g. text and data mining), and provides help with APIs.…
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Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet tool that can be used to store, organize, analyze and visualize data.…
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Digital Humanities Network (DHN)
The mandate of the DHN is to design and support initiatives that raise awareness and build upon U of T’s existing strengths in the digital humanities. The DHN supports initiatives that encompass interpretative or theoretical work on a wide …
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The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE)
CANUE is a consortium made up of voluntary members from the multi-disciplinary fields of environmental health research, health policy, and urban design and planning. CANUE collates and generates standard measures of environmental factors an…
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The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath) Portal
CanPath provides health, behavioural, genomic and environmental data, as well as biological samples, from over 330,00 Canadian participants to researchers investigating environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors related to the development…
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Toronto Regional Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC)
The Toronto Region Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC) is a secure computer lab where approved researchers can access and analyze confidential microdata from Statistics Canada surveys and administrative databases, including Census …
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SciNet
SciNet is Canada’s largest supercomputer centre, providing Canadian researchers with computational resources and expertise necessary to perform their research. They also offer free education and training on advanced computing skills…
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Open Refine
Open source tool for exploring, cleaning and manipulating “messy” data.…
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SPSS Statistics
The SPSS software platform offers advanced statistical analysis, a vast library of machine learning algorithms, text analysis, open source extensibility, integration with other applications.…
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Scholars Portal Geoportal
Geospatial datasets collection portal. Includes land-based vector data (water, cultural features, etc.), census geography, orthophotography, and more…
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Map and Data Library
The Map and Data Library offers a rich and diverse set of supports and services related to maps, datasets, microdata, data visualization, statistics, geospatial data portals, research data management, and more.…
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University of Toronto MyMedia
The University of Toronto Libraries’ MyMedia offers an archival storage and streaming solution for media content. Use MyMedia to upload a wide array of video and audio file formats and manage and share your media. All media files are re-enc…
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