U of T Dataverse (Borealis) — tenant

The University of Toronto's research data repository collection inside Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository operated by Scholars Portal for the Ontario Council of University Libraries. Verified live on 2026-08-19 via the Dataverse Native API at https://borealisdata.ca/api/dataverses/toronto, which returns alias "toronto", name "U of T Dataverse", affiliation "University of Toronto". The Dataverse Native API contract belongs to the Dataverse Project and the deployment to Borealis; U of T operates the collection, the curation and the deposits. No Dataverse specification is saved under this institution.

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aid: university-of-toronto:uoft-dataverse-borealis
name: U of T Dataverse (Borealis) — tenant
x-operator: tenant
description: The University of Toronto's research data repository collection inside Borealis, the Canadian
  Dataverse Repository operated by Scholars Portal for the Ontario Council of University Libraries. Verified
  live on 2026-08-19 via the Dataverse Native API at https://borealisdata.ca/api/dataverses/toronto, which
  returns alias "toronto", name "U of T Dataverse", affiliation "University of Toronto". The Dataverse
  Native API contract belongs to the Dataverse Project and the deployment to Borealis; U of T operates
  the collection, the curation and the deposits. No Dataverse specification is saved under this institution.
humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/toronto
tags:
- Research Data
- Dataverse
- Repository
- Open Data
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/toronto
x-note: Deliberately carries no baseURL. borealisdata.ca is a shared vendor host serving many Canadian
  institutions; publishing it as a U of T base URL is precisely the misattribution this profile exists
  to prevent. The relationship is the fact worth recording, not the endpoint.