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  • Logo: Manitoba Open Education Symposium Open Horizons: Affordability & Access through Open Education June 11 & 12 2025 Image: a field with the sun setting

    Creating OER with Students

    University of Manitoba 100 Innovation Drive, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Led by Apurva Ashok (Rebus Foundation) Join us for a hands-on workshop where we will explore practical, fun, and effective strategies for co-creating Open Educational Resources (OER) with students. We’ll discover how open educational practices and renewable assignments can transform classroom dynamics by engaging students as active knowledge creators rather than passive participants. Together, we’ll […]

  • Implementing Institutional RDM Strategies

    Date: June 12 2025 Description: With the release of the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy all Canadian post-secondary institutions and research hospitals that administer Tri-Agency funding were required to develop and post institutional research data management (RDM) strategies by March 1, 2023. As institutions finalized their strategies, they began to consider what implementation would look like. […]

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    Data Bites – Creating a Data Dictionary for Research Projects

    Date: June 16 2025 This practical workshop, delivered by the UBC Library Research Data Management team, introduces the purpose and structure of a data dictionary to support clear, consistent, and reusable research data. Designed for graduate students, researchers, and staff, the session emphasizes how data dictionaries enhance data documentation, sharing, and reuse. Participants will learn how […]

  • Depositing in Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository

    Date: June 19 2025 Description: This online workshop will support researchers with uploading data files of all types and examples of documentation and metadata for submission to an institutional collection (hosted in Borealis). Participants will learn more about direct integrations for dropbox, handling .zips, geospatial file support, creating documentation and metadata, linking to code and publications, […]

  • Using Data Collections in Odesi and Scholars GeoPortal in Your Research

    Date: June 19 2025 Description: This online workshop will demonstrate to researchers how-to search, filter by variables, topics, and themes, as well as exploring and analyzing data using these repository platforms. Highlights of collections including historical census data and geographic boundary data as well as open historical topographic maps and data for reuse. Participants will be […]

  • Metadata in the DRI Ecosystem: A Pragmatic Introduction

    Date: June 19 2025 Description: Metadata is as metadata does. As researchers and institutions embrace digital research infrastructures (DRIs) and digital tools for conducting research, researchers need a better and deeper practical understanding of metadata in these new digital contexts.  Usually defined as essentially being data about data, metadata provides additional information or context about an […]

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    Plugins in QGIS

    Date: June 26 2025 This intermediate-level workshop is meant to extend basic knowledge of QGIS by exploring common plugins. Familiarity of the QGIS is therefore a prerequisite. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to use plugins to Familiarity with GIS is prerequisite for this workshop. This workshop is taught by a […]

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    Critical Editing and Interpretation in TEI

    The University of British Columbia 1958 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Date: June 27th 2025 Location: UBC Digital Scholarship Lab, Koerner Library, 4th floor Recommended Reading Beshero-Bondar, Elisa, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Quinn Dombrowski, and Roopika Risam. “DSC #5: The DSC and the Impossible TEI Quandaries.” The Data-Sitters Club. June 25, 2020. https://doi.org/10.25740/wq850xt2646. This session will offer an introduction to critical digital editing in TEI. In particular, this session will […]

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    Data Bites – File Naming Best Practices for Research Data

    Date: June 30 2025 This practical workshop, delivered by the delivered by the UBC Library Research Data Management team, introduces strategies for consistent and meaningful file naming to support better research organization, collaboration, and long-term data reuse. Designed for graduate students, researchers, and staff, this session helps participants avoid common pitfalls and adopt best practices in […]

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    Data Bites – Choosing File Formats for Research Data

    Date: July 7 2025 This practical workshop, delivered by the UBC Library Research Data Management team, explores how selecting the right file formats can support long-term preservation, data sharing, and reuse. Aimed at graduate students, researchers, and staff, the session highlights best practices for choosing formats that align with FAIR data principles. Participants will learn how […]

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    Data Bites – Creating README Files for Research Data

    Date: July 14 2025 This hands-on workshop, delivered by the UBC Library Research Data Management team, introduces the importance of README files in documenting research data for long-term access and reuse. Designed for graduate students, researchers, and staff, the session provides practical guidance for creating clear, consistent, and useful data documentation. Participants will learn how to: […]

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    Data Bites – Optimize Directory Structures for Research Data

    Date: July 21 2025 Presenter(s):Eugene Barsky, Vanessa Choy This practical workshop, delivered by the UBC Library Research Data Management team, focuses on strategies for organizing research data using clear and logical directory structures. Designed for graduate students, researchers, and staff, the session helps participants manage files more effectively to support collaboration, reproducibility, and long-term data stewardship. […]