Focus Group: Integrated data services: Multi-Disciplinary Data Repositories, Data Discovery, Preservation Services

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) invites members from the broader research community to participate in focus groups around key elements of the Canadian Research Data Platform: a seamless, interoperable, and researcher-friendly data ecosystem that supports the full research data lifecycle, including planning, active data management, discovery, preservation, and reuse. The Canadian Research Data Platform will address key service gaps, provide the data management layer that sits on top of the distributed storage grid, integrate Alliance national research data services, and provide interoperability mechanisms for community-led Data Spaces.

These focus groups will help the Alliance in its efforts to collaboratively plan and implement this cohesive national research data ecosystem by mapping out the different needs of stakeholders and identifying possible gaps and areas for improved alignment.

This focus group will help shape the Alliance's work on various national services to support the full research data lifecycle and connect local and domain-specific tools with national platforms—specifically, Multi-Disciplinary Data Repositories, Data Discovery, and Preservation Services. We will consider questions related to a number of higher-level themes, such as how data could be made more visible, accessible, and reusable across domains, or what standards or practices are most important for ensuring data preservation.