Submission ID 130576
| Abstract Summary | The RDM Jumpstart program is a national training initiative designed to introduce graduate students and early career researchers to best practices in both research data management (RDM) and computational reproducibility. The program provides hands-on training in transparency, reproducibility, and compliance with emerging funder and publisher requirements, using tools such as R, DMP Assistant and Borealis (Dataverse). In Year 1 (January-June 2025), the pilot was delivered as a week-long virtual workshop in May. Participants engaged with a shared dataset, learning about documentation and metadata practices, reproducibility considerations, data integrity, and alignment with FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. In Year 2 (January-June 2026), a second iteration of Jumpstart is being offered with a re-imagined application process, a longer delivery period (six days over two weeks) and curriculum informed by lessons learned and feedback from the 2025 program and a subsequent in-person offering at the University of Victoria. The goals of the revised program are for learners to be able to: * Explain how RDM principles support research transparency and reproducibility * Apply RDM practices to real-world examples and consider how they can be applied to their own work * Implement reproducible research workflows using R and RStudio * Develop transferable strategies for independently learning and adopting new digital tools for research and applying RDM practices to different types of data. This session will discuss the changes made and approaches taken for 2026, feedback received from participants and instructors, and potential avenues for moving forward with Jumpstart in a broader Alliance context. |
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| Presenter(s) | Nick Rochlin, University of Victoria Jennifer Abel, University of Calgary Maria Amoros-Teijeiro, University of Victoria Diana Bertuol Garcia, University of Victoria Jamie Clarke, University of Victoria Anneliese Eber, University of Waterloo Jaime Orr, University of Winnipeg Sandra Sawchuk, Mount Saint Vincent University Mathew Vis-Dunbar, University of British Columbia, Okanagan |
