data repositories enable researchers to safely store and share their own data and find data collected by others. several tools exist to aid researchers in finding appropriate repositories.
borealis is a data sharing platform free for researchers at canadian research institutions. it meets the deposit requirements of the tri-agency and many leading journals. here at lakehead, we administer an instance of borealis (lakehead dataverse) and can guide you in deposit processes. see below for more details.
a brief guide for dataverse.
metadata describes the characteristics of other data. it enables researchers to find and use data. it includes:
because research data is so diverse, specific disciplines follow different metadata standards. the following resources are designed to help you apply the appropriate metadata to your data set, preparing it for submission to a repository.