**Overview**
The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) is Canadian national data repository aimed to address a longstanding gap in Canada’s research infrastructure by providing a single platform from which research data can be ingested, curated, preserved, discovered, cited, and shared. Geodisy provides map search functionality to supplement the FRDR discovery service, allowing researchers to find data based on location. This session will introduce data searching using the main FRDR search as well as the Geodisy map function, and will discuss evaluating data for reuse.
**Presenter**
Nick Rochlin is the Research Data Management Specialist in UBC’s Advanced Research Computing team. He is active in the Portage Network of RDM professionals, co-chairing the Training Expert Group and the Institutional Strategies Working Group, and an active member of the FRDR User Experience & Training Group.
**Objectives**
Outline FRDR's role in Canadian data repositories
Outline use cases for depositing data into FRDR
Search for data using FRDR / Geodisy and play with search facets
Assess quality of datasets found in FRDR
**Outcomes**
Identify FRDR as a tool to search across Canadian data repositories
Identify FRDR as a repository suited for data deposits larger than 5GB / 300 files
Identify Geodisy as a tool for map-based data searches