About this Pressbook
Editors: Danica Evering and Subhanya Sivajothy
Primary Investigator: Jason Brodeur
Framing: Danica Evering, Shahad Al-Saqqar, Laurence Horton, Billie Hu
Data Management Planning: Anneliese Eber, Isaac Pratt, Cathy Paton, Kaelan Caspary
Roles and Responsibilities: Subhanya Sivajothy, Melissa Cuthill, Neha Gupta, Keshav Mukunda
Data Deposit: Amber Gallant, Niloofar Hooman, Emilie Altman, Lucia Constanzo, Dylanne Dearborn, Ted Hildebrandt, Shahira Khair, Mikala Narlock, Alisa Beth Rod, Tracy Sallaway
Community Outreach Support: Shahad Al-Saqqar, Strategic Manager of Community-Engaged Research, Office of Community Engagement, McMaster University
Glossary: Oishee Ghosh, Nancy He (RDM Assistants – 2024-25) Rebeca Gaston Jothyraj (RDM Assistant – 2024), Shrey Acharya (RDM Assistant – 2023)
Review and Feedback: Shahad Al-Saqqar, Anneliese Eber, Emmanuel Songsore.
Community Research Data Toolkit Logo: Rigel Scott
Pressbook Development: Oishee Ghosh
Graphics: Danica Evering and Oishee Ghosh
Where can I go to get help?
If you are at a university or college in Canada, Research Data Management Professionals are here to help you! The Digital Research Alliance of Canada maintains a list of Institutional Contacts who can support you in this work.
Sometimes community research partners want to learn from findings in peer-reviewed journals that might not be accessible without a university affiliation. The Community Scholars Program gives staff working at non-profit organizations access to academic titles at no cost as well as research support and consultations with librarians.
Community-Based Research Canada is an ongoing network of researchers and community organizations that supports each other through projects and areas of shared interest.
Community Data Program (CDP) provides data practitioners at public, non-profit, and community sector organizations with data products, analytical tools, and services focused on enabling organizations across Canada to measure and track local well being.
Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience (CCNDR) helps nonprofits and grassroots organizations use data and technology with confidence, security, and purpose. They have a Digital Impact Hub and Nonprofit AI Impact Hub that might be helpful.
PolicyWise has a Resources for Practice page (with tools for community research generally!). They are especially focused on supporting research, data analytics, and evaluation services for governments, non-profit organizations, and foundations serving children, youth, families, and communities.
License
Because of the source content of this publication, materials in this document are available under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY SA 4.0) License.
This means you can reuse the material in this guide. You can copy it, share it, or even adapt if you want. All it asks is that you acknowledge where you took the material from by providing appropriate credit, a link to this license, say if any changes were made, and share it under the same terms under which you used it.
AI Use
The glossary included in this document consists of a handpicked collection of unfamiliar keywords, which have been defined online and reordered with examples added and translated to plain-text language by our team. The definitions were all pulled from sources online that we felt best described the word(s) in a readable manner. We then took those definitions and reworded them with the use of Microsoft Copilot, and the help of a piece called “What makes writing more readable?” by The Pudding.
Questions? Concerns? Feedback?
Maintenance of this document is overseen by McMaster University Research Data Management Services. Contact us at rdm@mcmaster.ca or library@mcmaster.ca to suggest revisions.
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Acknowledgements:
This project from start to finish was made possible by generous funding and support from a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – Connection Grant, Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative, the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, McMaster’s Office of the Vice-President – Research’s Research Centres and Institutes Fund, the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB), Social Planning Research Council of Hamilton (SPRC), Office of Community Engagement, and McMaster University Library.
