Building a Community of Practice: 2022-23 highlights from Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Community

Since 2019, the national Borealis community of institutional administrators supports researchers locally with data curation, deposit, sharing, and preservation in Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository (https://borealisdata.ca). Through monthly, bilingual community meetings, special presentations, and training events, the community engages in open knowledge sharing, discussions, and practical training, to support and improve services related to areas of shared interest across all institutions using the repository. Highlights over the past year include a new joiners training session, API training, community presentations related to Re3data repository registration efforts, data preservation, discovery of research data, an upcoming survey of administrators, data licensing, and more. The motivation for strong community engagement relates to responding to community needs and is a model for community building that fosters a culture of open dialogue and collaboration. This presentation was a lightning talk for the 2023 Dataverse Community Meeting, held in person in Braga, Portugal in June 2023