RRDMS_Workshop

Do you have reuse in mind when collecting your research data? Do you know how to tidy your data to make it reusable?

Join Michelle Edwards, Director of Agri-food Data Strategy and Lucas Alcantara, Manager of Research Centre Data from the University of Guelph to learn the best practices for data organization, documentation, and sharing. Participants will receive hands-on training and guidance, as well as the opportunity to network with other researchers and learn about the latest data management and sharing development.

Workshop agenda

This workshop is available online and in-person with limited spaces available for both options.

• Dates: February 21 - 24, 2023
• Time: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
• Location: Ontario Dairy Reserach Centre (6185 2 Line E, Township Of Centre Wellington, ON N0B 1B0)

Getting started

Use this guide to learn how to navigate GitHub and Posit Cloud, which are needed for this workshop.

Day 1: Data governance and metadata

What do I have to offer and who can use it?

• Strategies for effective metadata creation, including available and tools in development
• Data governance: who can access my data and data collected at the Research Centres? (Including Data governance Exercise)

Day 2: Research data reusability mindset

From collection to storage

• Review of the FAIR data principles.

• The importance of data reusability and how we can keep reusability in mind in every step of a research project: developing a reusability mindset. Strategies to record data that meet domain-relevant community standards and are associated with detailed provenance.

Tour at the Ontario Dairy Research Centre

The Ontario Dairy Research Centre (ODRC) in Elora, Ontario, is leading dairy innovation through education and collaboration. It is a state-of-the-art 175,000 square foot facility for discovery, learning and outreach. This centre is a partnership between the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario, OMAFRA, the University of Guelph and the Ontario dairy industry.

Learn more about the ODRC at https://uoguel.ph/sopr9.

Tour will not be available synchronously for online participants. Instead, 360º Virtual Tours are available at the Ontario Agri-Food and Innovation Alliance YouTube channel: @AgInnovationON. Please find the direct links below:

Hint: Use your mouse or touch pad to move, zoom in, or zoom out the view.

1. Maternity and Special Needs: https://youtu.be/OiMbjdyZXBw
2. Robotic Milking System: https://youtu.be/2DYhSSAFMIc
3. Rotary Parlour: https://youtu.be/VulIFAv0jNE
4. Calf Nursery: https://youtu.be/HdMAsASf43Q
5. Lactating Cow Housing: https://youtu.be/lJncYUAeSRY

Day 3: Basic R programming skills

Tidying your data

• An introduction to the R programming language and the RStudio IDE
• Data manipulation in R with the aim of making a reusable “tidy” format ready for visualization and modelling by other researchers.

Day 4: Advanced research computing skills

Data explorer dashboard

• Shiny framework for creating web applications using R code.
• How to build a Shiny Apps with a dashboard layout to interactively explore your own research data.
• How to publish your Shiny Apps for free on the internet through Shinyapps.io.

For in-person participants: Please bring your own laptop for the hands-on R programming training on days 3 and 4, as one will not be provided for you. Breakfast will be available daily at 8:30 a.m. and lunch will be provided.

Press release

• U of G Workshop to Help Researchers Unlock Power of Data Reusability
• U of G data experts host four-day workshop to promote data reusability

Acknowledgement

This event was made possible by funding from Compute Ontario.