The purpose of this website is to support the Network goal of facilitating the use of data for the purposes of secondary analysis by providing information on background issues surrounding secondary analysis, information on current policies and practices, providing links to relevant sites, and offering a forum for the discussion of strategies and policies in support of data sharing within and beyond the Network. The site is a work in progress that will evolve with continued input from CLLRNET and other researchers.

The central goal behind the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNet) is to improve the language and literacy skills of Canadian children. As a national network, the researchers hope to accomplish more than as individual investigators. Their broad objective is to understand the development of good language and literacy skills and apply this knowledge to facilitate the language, communication and literacy programs and practices of Canada's children. Creating a database where individual investigators can access primary research data to facilitate secondary analysis is one step towards CLLRNet researchers working together as a focused community to accomplish their network goals.

The intention to develop a CLLRNet-wide core facility/database project was outlined in their initial Strategic Research Plan. The essential notions are that a) one way to add significant value through cooperation among researchers in the network would be to foster the systematic sharing and reuse of data; b) such an initiative would require data to be cataloged and archived in a systematic manner.