Makers and Mavericks

Episode 4 | Open Data and Surfing the Dataverse


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What’s a Dataverse? Listen to find out! Open data and open data repositories, like Dataverse, are important and vital in today’s world. In this episode, you’ll learn about open data and data literacy with our guest MRU data librarian Brian Jackson. He worked on Mount Royal’s new Dataverse data repository and has a wealth of knowledge to share on understanding data.

Check out the Mount Royal University Dataverse open data repository here.  More data will become available in the coming months.

Bibliography and Additional Reading

Dataverse Project. (n.d.) About. https://dataverse.org/about

King, G. (2007). An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing. Sociological Methods and Research, 36,173–199. https://j.mp/2owjuRr

Open Data Charter. (n.d.). INTERNATIONAL OPEN DATA CHARTER. https://opendatacharter.net/principles

Open Data Watch. (2020). Data in the Time of Covid-19. https://opendatawatch.com/what-is-being-said/data-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

Scholars Portal Dataverse. (n.d.) Scholars Portal Dataverse. https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/

Statistics Canada. (2020) Covid-19: A data perspective. https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/covid19



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