Data Management Plan (DMP) Assistant

February 15, 2023, 2:30pm-3:50pm EST

Presented by: Meghan Landry, Megan Meredith-Lobay

Duration: 80 minutes

Description: This session will serve as a walk-through demonstration of how to use the Data Management Plan (DMP) Assistant tool. A high-level overview of research data management and the role of DMPs will be provided, as well as concrete examples, resources, and best practices in the creation of a data management plan for humanities and social sciences related research.

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Biography

Meghan Landry is the Humanities & Social Sciences Research Specialist with ACENET, and one of the Alliance HSS National Team Leads. She possesses an MLIS from McGill University, a BA in English Literature from UPEI, and is working towards a Technical Writing certification. She joined ACENET from St. Francis Xavier University where she was a Scholarly Communications Librarian. In that role, she was very involved with the university’s strategic efforts in research data management and open access. She was responsible for implementing St. FX’s first institutional repository, StFX Scholar. Meghan is based at StFX University, but serves all of Atlantic Canada and is active in national humanities and social sciences initiatives.

Megan Meredith-Lobay is the Associate Director of Research Computing at Simon Fraser University, and one of the Alliance HSS National Team Leads. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in Archaeology, where she used various computing resources to investigate ritual landscapes in the Late Iron Age/Early Medieval Scotland. In addition, Megan has supported digital researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences for the last fifteen years at the University of Alberta, Oxford University, and the University of British Columbia.