Fall 2023: Open Data

Fall 2023 is the season of OPEN DATA at OSOH! Every month we’ll cover a theme touching on Open Data best practices, with handpicked experts on deck to lead workshops and offer one-on-one help. Join us for an exciting series of events exploring best practices for data management, data sharing and re-using of open datasets.

More details about the thematic months, experts and events are released in separate posts as each month approaches.

September 2023

Intro Data Management and Sharing

Learn how to make your lives easier with good data management and data sharing. Become a pro in the FAIR principles and, in sharing research data with the McGill Institutional Repository (Dataverse). The OSOH expert for the month is Alisa Rod, Research Data Management Secialist at McGill Library.

October 2023

Data Standards: The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) - not just for MRI data!

Learn how you can get started with using data standards to organize your work. We will discuss the advantages of BIDS for Data management and Sharing, how to get started with BIDS, and how to participate in the BIDS community to expand it for more data types.

November 2023

Big Data: How to find, access and (re-)use Open Datasets

Large open datasets are increasingly available and could complement your work to make it more impactful, or avoid data collection all together. Learn important tips and tricks to find, access, and use existing open data (e.g., UK BioBank).

December 2023

Dataset tracking and version control with Datalad

Become fluent in Datalad, a tool that enables you to track and version control your datasets as they grow and evolve, making it easier to collaborate with others. Datalad is further increasingly used to get access to open datasets on the web.