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Dear All,
The Scholars GeoPortal is a centralized repository of provincial and national geospatial data for all 21 Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) universities. As this platform is nearing its 10-year mark, it is in need of redevelopment to continue functioning. This also presents an opportunity to explore what changes and updates could help continue to meet future needs in a way that is sustainable and adaptive.
As part of this project, members of the GeoPortal Business Case Working Group are looking to gather feedback from faculty, researchers, and instructors who use the Scholars GeoPortal to investigate the current strengths and gaps of the platform. This assessment will provide the working group with case studies across multiple Ontario institutions of the general and specific use of the GeoPortal, as well as GIS and geospatial data more broadly. This information will be used to develop our recommendations for the future direction of the GeoPortal.
Thank you for your participation.
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Disclaimer
This survey was submitted to the University of Toronto's research office for ethics review, and was deemed exempt. This survey constitutes program evaluation, quality assurance (QA) or quality improvement (QI) within the mandate of the Ontario Council of University Libraries, Scholars GeoPortal.
The data obtained in this survey will be used to assess the user needs of the OCUL Geo community and help inform recommendations relating to the future of the Scholars GeoPortal. Your answers will be stored securely on Scholars Portal’s secured servers. Aggregated summaries and de-identified results may be shared in reports and/or published in a public repository, such as Dataverse. Prior to depositing data in a repository, any personal identifying information will be removed from the data, and information will not be linked back to you. For all questions or concerns regarding the storage and/or use of these data, please contact the working group at geo-reinvestment@scholarsportal.info.
By participating in this survey, I understand that my de-identified data may be placed into a research data repository.
