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Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que le nouveau site web d’Odesi sera déployé en ligne le 4 octobre, 2023.   

Au cours de la dernière année, le groupe de travail du projet de migration a travaillé fort pour s’assurer que toutes les données et les métadonnées d’Odesi soient entièrement migrées vers la nouvelle plateforme du référentiel: Borealis, le dépôt Dataverse canadien.  

Nous remercions tous ceux qui ont participé au projet, y compris l’équipe du projet, la communauté des données, et Compute Ontario pour son soutien financier. 

Scholars Portal a organisé un webinaire sur le nouveau Odesi le 21 septembre, 2023. L'enregistrement est maintenant disponible sur YouTube, et les diapositives sont disponibles pour référence et réutilisation dans l'enseignement.  

La Version Beta d’Odesi 

Le nouveau Odesi a aussi une nouvelle interface utilisateur, et nous vous encourageons d’explorer la version beta avant le lancement officiel!  

Guide d’Utilisateur Mis à Jour 

La version brouillon du nouveau guide d’utilisateur (Anglais seulement) a été préparé pour soutenir les bibliothèques et utilisateurs avec la transition vers le nouveau Odesi. Le brouillon du guide d'utilisateur est disponible en format MS Word. Ce format permet d'extraire dur contenu et de l'ajouter à vos document pédagogiques, spécifique à votre institution. Veuillez noter que ce brouillon est pour les usages internes seulement; le contenu n’est pas final et il devrait qu’il n’est pas distribué au public. La version finale du guide peut avoir des nouveaux contenus et changements 

Autres documents de formation, y inclus le guide des Meilleurs Pratiques d’Odesi et le Dépôt des Données, seront disponibles pour la relance officielle d’Odesi le 4 octobre. Tous les guides seront disponibles en format PDF, et le nouveau guide d’utilisateur sera aussi disponible en ligne en version page web.   

Envoyez-Nous vos Feedback 

S’il vous plait contactez-nous dès que possible si vous avez des commentaires ou si vous remarquez quelque chose qui a besoin d’amélioration pour la version finale du guide d’utilisateur. Cela inclut les coordonnées institutionnelles qui sont inclus dans la section de Coordonnées (Contact) du brouillon.  

Prenez quelques minutes pour lire les questions et réponses ci-dessous, pour obtenir plus d’informations sur les changements et fonctionnalités du nouveau site web d’Odesi. Si vous avez des questions, commentaires, ou préoccupations, envoyez-nous un courriel à odesi@scholarsportal.info.

Qu’est-ce que Odesi?    

Odesi est un dépôt Web et outil d’exploration et d’analyse pour les données des sciences sociales. Odesi contient des milliers des ensembles de données, y compris des sondages des microdonnées, les sondages des opinions publique, les données administratives, les donnes récapitulatives, et la documentation pertinente. Les utilisateurs peuvent effectuer une recherche dans plusieurs collections des données, et peuvent filtrer, explorer, tabuler, télécharger, et créer des sous- ensembles de données et variables. Les ensembles de données sont organisées et décrites par les employés aux bibliothèques universitaires canadien en utilisent le standard de métadonnées de la Data Documentation Initiative (DDI).  

Un partenariat unique entre les bibliothèques universitaires, les entreprises, et le gouvernement, Odesi améliore considérablement l’accès aux données d’enquêtes sociales et aux données des sondages pour les chercheurs, les enseignants, et les étudiants.  

Pourquoi ces changements ont-ils été effectués?  

Avant la migration, Odesi a été soutenu par le dépôt Nesstar, qui est en fin-de-vie. Cette migration vers Borealis permet à Scholars Portal (le fournisseur de service d’Odesi) à continuer d’offrir l'accès à Odesi et d’intégrer les nouvelles fonctionnalités qui soutiendront la préservation des données d’Odesi, contribuant ainsi à la durabilité et l'avenir de la plateforme.  

Borealis a été choisi pour remplacer Nesstar parce qu'il contient des fonctionnalités essentielles comme une interface bilingue, les flux de travail collaboratif pour le dépôt des données, les métadonnées au standard de la Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), les identificateurs d’objets numériques (DOI) pour les citations, et les fonctions d’exploration and analyse des données en ligne. 

Plus d’information sur les origines du projet de migration sont disponibles sur le site web du CBUO.   

Qu’est-ce qui sera différent sur le nouveau site?  

Le nouveau site web sera visuellement différent avec une nouvelle interface d’utilisateur. Les images sont incluses dans le nouveau Guide d’Utilisateur pour vous aider à utiliser les changements de l’interface.   

Le domaine du site web odesi.ca ne changera pas. En ce moment, le nouveau Odesi peut être consulter sur ce site web: beta.odesi.ca. Après la mise en ligne du nouveau site web le 4 octobre, 2023, odesi.ca sera mis à jour pour refléter les nouvelles fonctionnalités et l’interface d’Odesi.  

A l’avenir, une grande partie des données dans Odesi sera ouverte et accessible à tous les chercheurs, dans l’esprit des principes FAIR, qui visent à garantir la découvrabilité, l’accessibilité, l’interopérabilité, et la réutilisation des métadonnées de recherche. Cela reflète la vision du CBUO et d’Odesi vers une infrastructure des données accessible, inclusive, et nationale, et aussi un modèle de service plus étendu avec la priorité à la durabilité et la collaboration communautaire.  

Quelles sont les nouvelles fonctionnalités du nouveau Odesi?  

Les nouvelles fonctionnalités s’incluent:  

• L’ajout d’Identifiants d'objets numériques DataCite (DOI) pour les ensembles de données Odesi afin d'améliorer la découverte et la création de citation de données normalisée.
• Fonctionnalités de recherche et de navigation améliorées, y compris de nouveaux filtres de recherche.
• L’option d’explorer les questions d’enquête et les variables d’enquête à l'aide de l'outils Borealis Data Explorer.
• Les options pour prévisualiser les données, créer des sous-ensembles, générer des diagrammes, et l’analyse à l'aide de l'outils d’Exploration de Données de Borealis.
• L’option de télécharger des jeux de données directement depuis la page de résultats de recherche. 

Qu’arrivera-t-il aux liens que j’ai enregistrés depuis le version précédente d’Odesi?  

Scholars Portal mettra en place un processus de redirection pour les URLs de l’ancienne version du site web d’Odesi vers le nouveau site web. Les liens qui incluent des identifiants d’enquêtes d’Odesi seront redirigés vers les ensembles de données pertinents du nouveau site web. 

Exemple d’un URL avec un identifiant d’enquête de l’ancienne version d’Odesi 

Le processus de redirection sera en place pour six mois à partir du 4 octobre, 2023. Après la période de six mois, ces redirections automatiques cesseront et vous devrez enregistrer de nouveaux liens à partir du nouveau site web d’Odesi. 

Le dépôt Nesstar d’Odesi 

Une version statique de Nesstar restera disponible tel quel pour la référence pour une période de six mois après la relance. 

Comment les métriques seront-elles affectées?  

Avant la migration, les utilisateurs d’Odesi peuvent voir les métriques de leur institution. Avec le nouveau Odesi – qui contient plusieurs ensembles de données ouvertes – les métriques ne sont plus disponible par institution. Les nouveaux rapports statistiques seront disponibles sur Borealis.  

Contactez-nous si vous avez des questions.  

Mon institution veut s’abonner à Odesi. Quel est le model d’abonnement pour les institutions qui ne font pas partie du CBUO.  

CBUO s’engage au soutien continu pour la curation des données dans Odesi, et cela inclut la révision des modèles de service et abonnement. CBUO travaille maintenant sur un modèle de service mis à jour pour Odesi. Plus d’information sera bientôt disponibles.

A qui dois-je m’adresser pour obtenir de l’aide?  

Pour obtenir de l’aide avec Odesi ou des questions sur la relance, les documents de formation, ou sur le nouveau site web envoyez-nous un courriel à odesi@scholarsportal.info. 

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We are happy to announce that the new Odesi site will officially go live on October 4, 2023.   

Over the past year, the project migration team has worked hard to ensure that all the data and metadata has been migrated to the new repository in Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository.  

We thank everyone involved in the Odesi migration including the project team, the data community, and Compute Ontario for funding support.   

Scholars Portal hosted a webinar about the new Odesi on September 21, 2023. A recording of the webinar is now available on the Scholars Portal YouTube Channel, and presentation slides are available for reference and reuse in instruction. 

Odesi Beta Site  

The Odesi re-launch will also feature a new user interface and we encourage you to explore the beta site prior to the official release!   

Updated Odesi User Guide 

A draft version of the updated Odesi User Guide (English-only) has been prepared to support libraries and end-users with the transition to the new Odesi. This draft guide is available as a Word document so that content may be extracted and added to institution-specific teaching materials. Please note that this draft is for internal purposes only; the content is not final and is not meant to be distributed widely. The final version of the guide may include additional content and updates.  

Additional training materials, including Odesi Best Practices and Deposit Guide will be available for the official Odesi re-launch on October 4. All guides will be released as PDFs, and the content from the updated User Guide will also be available in web format through the current Odesi User Guide on the learn site.  

Send Us Your Feedback 

Please let us know as soon as possible if you have any feedback or notice anything that needs updating for the final version of the User Guide, including updated institutional contact information - listed in the ‘Contact’ section of the guide.  

Take a few moments to review the following FAQs that provide more detailed information about the changes coming and features of the new Odesi site. If you have any additional questions, comments, or concerns, send us an email at odesi@scholarsportal.info.  

What is Odesi?   

Odesi is a Canadian social science data repository and online data exploration and analysis tool. Odesi contains thousands of datasets, including survey microdata, public opinion polls, administrative data, summary data, and relevant documentation. Users can search across data collections, as well as filter, explore, tabulate, download, and subset datasets and variables. Datasets are curated and described by staff at Canadian academic libraries using the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) metadata standard.   

A unique partnership between university libraries, business, and government, Odesi greatly improves discovery and access to statistical surveys and public opinion data for use by researchers, teachers, and students.  

Why were these changes made?   

Previously, Odesi was supported by a back-end repository platform called Nesstar, which has reached end-of-life status. This migration to Borealis allows Scholars Portal (Odesi’s service provider) to continue providing Odesi as a service, and integrates new features which will support ongoing discovery, access, and preservation of data, contributing to Odesi’s overall sustainability moving forward.   

Borealis was selected as Nesstar’s replacement due to its support for critical functions such as a bilingual interface, collaborative workflows for data deposit, the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard metadata, DOIs for persistent data citation, and online data exploration and analysis.  

More information about the history of the migration project is available on the OCUL website.   

What will be different on the new site?   

The new Odesi site will appear visually different with a refreshed user interface. Screenshots are included in the updated User Guide and training materials to assist with navigating the interface changes.   

The Odesi.ca domain URL will not change. Currently, the new beta Odesi site can be previewed at beta.odesi.ca. However, when the site goes live on October 4, 2023, odesi.ca will be updated and refreshed to reflect Odesi’s new look and feel.   

Going forward, much of the data in Odesi will be open and accessible to all researchers, aligning with the FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). This reflects OCUL and Odesi’s movement towards more open, inclusive, national data infrastructure, as well as an expanding service model that prioritizes sustainability and community collaboration.   

What features does the new Odesi offer?  

New features include:   

• DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for Odesi datasets to improve discovery and standard citation.    
• Enhanced searching and browsing features, including new search filters   
• Options to explore survey questions and variables using Borealis Data Explorer and the Odesi search site. 
• Options for data preview, subsetting, visualization, and analysis using Borealis Data Explorer. 
• Ability to download files directly from the Odesi search site dataset landing pages.  

What will happen to the links that I have saved from the previous version of Odesi?   

Scholars Portal will be setting up a website URL redirect process for links from the previous Odesi site to the new site. Links that had an Odesi survey ID embedded will be redirected to the new site’s dataset landing pages.  

Previous Odesi Dataset URL Example 

This redirect process will be active for a period of six months, beginning October 4, 2023. After six months, these automatic redirects will cease, and you will need to update links for the new Odesi site. 

Odesi’s Nesstar Repository 

A static copy of Nesstar will remain available ‘as is’ for reference purposes for a period of six months post re-launch.  

How will Odesi institutional metrics be affected?   

Previously, Odesi subscribers had access to metrics that were relevant to their own institutions. With the new Odesi – and with more open data collections in Odesi – metrics are no longer available by institution. New open metrics reports for Odesi’s collections will be available on Borealis.  

Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.  

My institution would like to subscribe to Odesi. What is the subscription model for institutions outside of OCUL?    

OCUL is committed to ongoing support for data curation in Odesi, and this includes review of service and subscription models. OCUL is currently working on a revised Odesi service model. More information will be available soon. 

Who do I contact for help?   

For general help with Odesi or for questions about the Odesi re-launch, training materials, and the new site please send us an email at odesi@scholarsportal.info.   

Hello:

I just wanted to ask the question to all other accessibility service providers for how many will try and obtain the publisher copy for alternative format material before looking at other sources. 

The announcement is up on the OCUL website.

Many thanks to all our continuing participants and welcome to new participants Laurentian University and Wilfrid Laurier University!

OCUL is pleased to announce the 2013-14 round of funding for MarkIt!, the <odesi> student markup program. The program supports the hiring of students to mark up statistical datasets, using the DDI metadata standard, for inclusion in <odesi>. In response to a call for applications circulated in March 2013, OCUL has selected the following institutions to participate in the program from May 2013 to April 2014:

Carleton University
McMaster University
University of Ottawa
Queens University

OCUL would like to congratulate the successful applicants, and to thank all the institutions that have participated in the program to date: Carleton University, the University of Guelph, McMaster University, the University of Ottawa, Queens University, Ryerson University, and the University of Toronto. Thanks also to Carleton University and Queens University, which continue to contribute markup in-kind, in addition to any MarkIt! funds received.

For more information on <odesi>, please visit http://odesi.ca.

OCUL is pleased to announce the 2012-13 round of funding for MarkIt!, the <odesi> student markup program. The program supports the hiring of students to mark up statistical datasets, using the DDI metadata standard, for inclusion in <odesi>. In response to a call for applications circulated in March 2012, OCUL has selected the following institutions to participate in the program from May 2012 to April 2013:

Carleton University
McMaster University
University of Ottawa
Queens University
Ryerson University
University of Toronto

OCUL would like to congratulate the successful applicants, and to thank the all institutions that have participated in the program to date: Carleton University, the University of Guelph, McMaster University, the University of Ottawa, Queens University, and the University of Toronto. Thanks also to Carleton University and Queens University, which continue to contribute markup in-kind, in addition to any MarkIt! funds received.

For more information on <odesi>, please visit http://odesi.ca.

OCUL and PHIRN launch Ontario Population Health Index of Databases (OPHID)

The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is pleased to announce the launch of the Ontario Population Health Index of Databases (OPHID: http://ophid.ca).

OPHID offers Ontario’s population health researchers, students and decision makers information on a wide variety of quantitative information sources for and about Ontario, that reflect both the state of the health of its populations and possible explanatory variables. It is not a data-access platform; the objective of OPHID is to improve population health research by informing researchers about the existing data sources, the types of data they contain, and contact information for the data providers regarding potential data access.

This project is a partnership between OCUL and PHIRN (Population Health Improvement Research Network, http://www.rrasp-phirn.ca/), a province-wide network linking population health researchers and community partners in order to improve the health of Ontarians and the sustainability of the health care system. PHIRN has compiled the index content and provided funding, while OCUL’s Scholars Portal will host the index as well as creating and maintaining DDI-compliant metadata.

OPHID was officially launched on Friday September 30 at PHIRN’s event, Invitation to Building a Healthier Ontario Forum.

The Winter 2011 MarkIt! Program report is now available. This report lists new surveys added to odesi during Fall 2010, as well as other mark up activities participating institutions are involved with.

The Ontario Council of University Libraries has maintained the ODESI data service through its Scholars Portal program since 2008. Originally available only to academic libraries in Ontario, OCUL has recently opened up the service on a subscription basis to Statistics Canada's Data Liberation Initiative member institutions across Canada.

ODESI offers DLI member institutions a feature-rich bilingual search interface, providing your end users with direct access to the DLI collection.  Users can refine their search to identify datasets of interest, then explore or download the data user Nesstar Webview.

Want to learn more? Take a tour of what ODESI can do for you.  Then contact Leanne Hindmarch at leanne@scholarsportal.info for subscription and pricing details.

OCUL is pleased to announce the 2011-12 round of funding for MarkIt!, the <odesi> student markup program.  The program supports the hiring of students to mark up statistical datasets, using the DDI metadata standard, for inclusion in <odesi>.  In response to a call for applications circulated in March 2011, OCUL has selected the following institutions to participate in the program from May 2011 to April 2012:

Carleton University
University of Guelph
McMaster University
University of Ottawa
Queens University
University of Toronto

OCUL would like to congratulate the successful applicants, and to thank the all institutions that have participated in the program to date: Carleton University, the University of Guelph, McMaster University, the University of Ottawa, and the University of Toronto.  Thanks also to Carleton University and Queens University, which continue to contribute markup in-kind, in addition to any MarkIt! funds received.

For more information on <odesi>, please visit http://odesi.ca.

Scholars Portal has entered into a partnership with the Population Health Improvement Research Network (PHIRN) to develop a “Population Health Database Directory”.  The directory aims to provide information on databases available to researchers on the health of populations at international, national, provincial and health region levels (note that this is a metadata index which will provide information on who to contact for data access).  OCUL will host the index at Scholars Portal and mark up the records with DDI-compliant metadata, and a new Data Services Metadata Librarian position will work jointly on this project and the Geospatial Portal project metadata.  PHIRN will fund the project as well as providing index content. The index is expected to launch in Fall 2011.  This index will provide greater visibility for OCUL in the health information domain.

Participate in the MarkIt! Student Metadata Program (May 2011 – April 2012)

OCUL invites member libraries to submit an application for funding to participate in MarkIt!, the <odesi> student markup program.  This program supports the hiring of students to mark up statistical datasets, using the DDI metadata standard, for inclusion in <odesi>.  Continuing the distributed markup model established during <odesi>’s project phase, this funding is intended to ensure that <odesi> remains current and that OCUL institutions continue to have opportunities to be involved with <odesi> through local skills training and content contributions.
Details
OCUL will fund a total of four member institutions to hire student(s) to mark up files for odesi.  At least one of these institutions will be funded for French markup.  The current round of funding will cover students from May 1, 2011 to April 30, 2012, at the current student rate paid by each of the funded institutions.  OCUL prefers to reimburse members for costs at the end of each academic semester, based on actual hours worked.
Funded institutions must:

• Submit an application form .

• Be able to hire and supervise the student independently. Supervisors must be associated with an OCUL member library.

• Ideally, be able to train the student in marking up DDI files using Nesstar Publisher, in accordance with the <odesi> Best Practices Guide . HOWEVER, we would like to encourage schools that have had minimal involvement with <odesi> to date to submit an application.  Applicants are asked to indicate on their application the level of assistance they would require with training.

• Complete markup and/or quality control based on priorities identified by OCUL institutions as a group

• Remain in regular communication with Scholars Portal staff, including submission of invoices and a brief report at the end of each academic semester

Application deadline:  March 31, 2011

The Fall 2010 MarkIt! Program report is now available. This report lists new surveys added to odesi during Fall 2010, as well as other mark up activities participating institutions are involved with.