This document summarizes a conversation about publicly funded research data. It discusses the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC) at Carleton University, which receives public funding from various government and non-profit sources for its geospatial research. GCRC believes publicly funded research outputs should be openly accessible whenever possible. It uses open licenses for software and publishes data through open portals. GCRC also works with communities on participatory data collection and ensures community consent and control over sensitive traditional knowledge. The document outlines GCRC's guiding principles of open access, interoperability, data preservation and community oversight of data.

1. A Conversation About
Publicly Funded Research Data /
Une conversation à propos des données de recherche
financés par l‘état
Tracey P. Lauriault, Amos Hayes, D. R. Fraser Taylor
Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University
(http://gcrc.carleton.ca)
Conversation* de la recherche / Research conversation*
École des sciences de l’information / School of Information Studies
ESIS, Université d’Ottawa /Ottawa University, Wed. March. 21, 12:00-13:30, 200 rue Lees, B-152

2. GCRC
• GCRC is an official Research Centre in the Department of Geography and
Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
• Research focus on the application of geomatics to the understanding of
• socio-economic issues,
• the theory of cartography and
• cartographic education in an international context.
• It has capacity in a broad range of activities in the field of GIP
• The centre currently focuses on 12 interrelated research themes
• Cybercartography • Indigenous Knowledge
• Archiving and Preservation • Northern Research
• Law and Policy • Nunaliit
• Geospatial Information Management • Open Source
• Interoperability • Sound
• Global Map • Cinema
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Overview

3. Public Funding

4. GRCR Research Centre Funding
• SSHRC • Government of Canada
• Initiative on the New Economy (INE) • HRSDC - Data Development Projects
Major Collaborative Initiative Grant on Homelessness Program
• Image, Text, Sound and Technology • Heritage Canada - Gateway Fund
(ITST) Strategic Grant
• Statistics Canada, Geography Division
• INE Outreach Grant & Standard
Research Grants
• Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade Grant
• International Polar Year
• Natural Resources Canada
Canada
• NSERC • Canada Foundation for
• Indian & Northern Affairs Innovation (CFI)
• Canadian International Polar Year
Secretariat Office
• Scientific Committee on
Antarctic Research
• Government of Nunavut
• Inuit Heritage Trust
• Inukshuk Wireless
• Kitikmeot Heritage Society
(NPO)
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Overview

5. Participatory Research Data

6. ISIUOP – Participatory Data Collection
Data & Software
- Nunaliit Cybercartographic Atlas Framework (BSD)
- Geogratis Framework & Topographic Data (Unrestricted terms of use)
- Flow lines collected by different hunters (Shared rights)
- More sensitive data – e.g. Bear Dens, sacred sites, environmentally
sensitive data are for viewing & use by the community only
- Data will become part of IPY Canada
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/ISIUOP/Inuit+Sea+Ice+Use+and+Occupancy+Project+(ISIUOP)

7. Nunaliit iPad Data Capture app
Community:
• Wished access was faster and atlas and
data were housed in community
• Wished adding content was easier
• Needed flexibility for types of data and
metadata to be saved and how to present
it
Nunaliit:
• Distributed network of replicating nodes,
including nodes in communities, and on
mobile
• Simplified data collection app replaces
half a dozen devices for offline data
collection
• Document oriented database with data
and applications loosely connected via
flexible schema system

8. Inuit Siku (sea ice) Atlas
http://sikuatlas.ca/sea_ice_map.html?module=1

9. Law and Policy
Mapping the Legal and Policy Ethics and Consent in Arctic Digital
Boundaries of Digital Cartography Research
(SSHRC Partnership Project) - Interdisciplinary, historical & cultural
study of consent
- Examine Consent Models in the North
- Centre for Law, Technology and
- Consult w/ northern data contributors
Society
- Consult w/ researchers & officials
- Natural Resources Canada
- GCRC & CLTS will Develop a data consent
- Geomatics and Cartographic model
Research Centre - GCRC to Build a data collection consent
framework into data collection technology

10. Data Portals - RNCan / NRCan
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/
http://www.geobase.ca
http://geodiscover.cgdi.ca
http://www.geoconnections.org/fr/resou
rcelibrary/keyStudiesReports

11. Data Partnerships

12. Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness
– Partnership Data Sharing
Data & Software
- Nunaliit
Cybercartographic Atlas
Framework ( BSD)
- Data Liberation Initiative
(DLI) Statistics Canada
(Restricted use)
- FCM QoLRS (Viewing only)
- City Neighbourhood
framework data files
(Viewing only)
- Toronto Community
Housing (Viewing only)
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Atlases

13. City of Toronto – Aging Social Housing Stock
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Atlases

14. Social Data Portals
Data are inaccessible to researchers
Data access is controlled
http://www.municipaldata-
donneesmunicipales.ca/Site/Collection/en/index.php
http://hifis.hrsdc.gc.ca/index-eng.shtml

15. Technology

16. Accessible Technology
http://sikuatlas.ca/technology.html

17. Nunaliit
The development team behind Nunaliit believes strongly that all the outputs of publically
funded research and development should be freely available for use, modification, and re-distribution with minimal
restrictions. We feel this open sharing of ideas and data is going to have huge positive
impacts on society as a whole. With this license, everyone is free to use and expand upon this technology.
http://nunaliit.org/about.html

18. Managing Research Data

19. IPY – Research funding and data management
http://www.ipy-api.gc.ca/pg_IPYAPI_052-eng.html

20. Canadian Institute for Health Information
Policy on Access to Research Outputs
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/34846.html
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/35664.html

21. Research Data Canada
Infrastructure: “Canada supports a
national, coordinated network of
repositories and services for
collection, preservation and
dissemination of research data,
which make use of green storage
facilities wherever possible.
Canadian services are linked to the
global research data ecosystem and
are interoperable with other
national, international and
disciplinary networks. Data quality,
integrity, and interoperability are
ensured through adherence to
international discipline and
metadata standards”.
http://rds-sdr.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/news/data_summit_report.html

22. Community Based Research Data

23. Community Data Consortium
https://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca

24. Community Data Canada
http://cdc-dcc.info/mandate.php

25. Social Planning Council of Ottawa
Data & Software
- CIMS Infrastructure (Open Source)
- Health Districts(Viewing only)
- Community Social Data Strategy Data (Viewing only)
- Geogratis Data (unrestricted use)
- Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (Viewing only)
- Community created data sets (Viewing only)
- City of Ottawa Ward Boundaries (Open Data)
Using Population Health Data to Profile the Health
and Well-Being of Children and Youth in Eastern Ontario
http://www.cims-scic.ca/CYHNEO_atlas
Community Information and Mapping System (CIMS)
(http://www.cims-scic.ca/)

26. Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
Community Data Program Member - Social Planning Council of Winnipeg (http://www.spcw.mb.ca)

27. Where to ask for & find data?

28. Open Data Portals – Fed.
http://www.data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F9B7A1E3-1
http://acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/ACDI-
CIDA.nsf/eng/FRA-511112638-L57

29. Open Data – Prov.
http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/

30. Open Data – Cities • Ville de Montréal Portails données ouvertes
(QC), Montréal Ouvert – Citizen Led
• City of Nanaimo (BC)
• OpenData Framework; Municipal Open
• City of Niagara Falls (ON)
Government Framework
• District of North Vancouver (BC) GeoWeb
• City of Burlington (ON), Pilot
• City of Ottawa (ON), Citizens’ APP Group –
• City of Calgary (AB)
OpenData Ottawa; Apps
• City of Edmonton (AB)
• Ville de Québec Catalogue de données,
• City of Fredericton (NB) Capitale Ouverte (QC)- Citizen Led in Ville
• Gatineau Ouverte – Citizen Led de Québec
• City of Guelph (ON), Guelph Coffee and • City of Prince George (BC) catalog
Code – Citizen Led • City of Regina (SK) Open Gov & Open Data
• City of Hamilton (Transit Feed) (ON), site
Open Data Hamilton – Citizen Led • City of Surrey (BC) GIS Catalog
• OpenHalton (ON) – Citizen Led • City of Toronto (ON); DataTO – Citizen
• City of London (ON), OpenData London – Group
Citizen Led • City of Vancouver (BC); Open Data Wiki
• Township of Langley (BC) • Region of Waterloo (ON) – Citizen Led
• City of Mississauga – Mississauga Data • City of Windsor (ON) Open Data Catalog
(ON) http://datalibre.ca/links-resources/

31. GCRC Guiding Principles

32. GCRC – Guiding Principles
• Products produced w/public funds belong to the public
 Whenever possible open access comes first
 BSD License
 Use data from open access sources
 Creative Commons
 Share as much as possible
 Publish in Open Access Journals
 Create and use open source software, tools, widgets, etc.
 Design for open source browsers
 Participate in open access, open data, open source for a
 Build in consent and data access protocols into data collection tools
 Conduct research on access to data, consent, law and policy
 Encourage these principles in public consultations
 Education & Capacity building
 Adhere to interoperability standards and specifications
 Data Preservation

33. Openness
The more open, accessible, interoperable, free and discoverable
public data are the more innovation we will see, the more
stories we can tell about Canada from multiple points of view
and public policy, research and science is more intelligent
That is why it is important to have a conversation about data.