In this presentation, attendees will gain an understanding of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR). Presenters will provide an overview of FRDR, discuss its curation and preservation services, and outline the support researchers will receive when using FRDR. The presentation will also highlight the University of Saskatchewan’s use and support of FRDR. 

Speakers 

Tamanna Moharana 

Tamanna Moharana is the Data Curation Officer for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada where she provides ongoing curation support for new dataset submissions to the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR). She also works towards streamlining internal curation workflows, and developing quality assurance workflows and resources, to support good data management practices. She is actively involved in and collaborates with the national curation community to support and facilitate a curation community of practice. 

Amanda Tomé

Amanda Tomé is the Preservation Coordinator for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada where she is responsible for preservation services associated with the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR). She spends her time crafting digital preservation workflows, developing appraisal and data retention methodologies, preservation planning, and investigating interesting and new file formats. Amanda collaborates and participates in various national and international committees. 

Daniel Manrique-Castaño

Daniel obtained his PhD in neuroscience from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Bochum, Germany) and completed postdoctoral training at Université Laval (Québec, Canada). Passionate about data management and analysis, Daniel currently works as a research data curation officer at the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) and develops resources to increase the curation capacity in Canada.