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1st African Digital Management and Curation
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| Day 1: Conference | |
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Registration |
| 08:30 – 08:45 | Welcome: Prof. Mzamo P Mangaliso - President, National Research Foundation |
| 08:45 – 09:15 | Keynote: The implications of the OECD declaration on open access to scientific data for African and specifically South African policy on research data and information management and curation The Honourable Mosibudi Mangena, Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa Speech |
| Theme 1: Overview : International Trends | |
| Session chair: Prof Theo Bothma, University of Pretoria | |
| 09:30 – 10:10 | From eScience towards Knowledge Utilities, Hans Falk Hoffmann, Honorary member CERN Presentation |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Information Gulags, Intellectual Straightjackets, and Memory Holes, Paul Uhlir, International S&T Information Programs and U.S. National Committee for CODATA Presentation |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea break |
| Theme 2A: Digital Management and Curation in Practice : International Perspective | |
| Session chair: Dr Kivilu Kivilu, Human Sciences Research Council | |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Social Science : Implementation and Management of a National Initiative : the example of the UK Data Archive, Kevin Schurer, UK Data Archive Presentation |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | International Digital Data Management and Sharing Initiatives in the Social Sciences, Peter Elias, International Data Forum, ISSC and WIS Presentation |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break |
| Theme 2B: Digital Management and Curation in Practice : International Perspective | |
| Session chair: Dr Xola Mati, ASSAf | |
| 14:00 – 14:40 | Implementing the NIH Data Sharing Policy : Expectations and Challenges, Dr Belinda Seto, National Institute of Health, US Presentation |
| 14:40 – 15:20 | Aligning Digital Preservation Policies with Community Standards, Nancy McGovern, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Presentation |
| 15:20 – 16:00 | GBIF Efforts in Digitising and Mobilization Primary Biodiversity Data, Vishwas Chavan and Nicholas King, Global Biodiversity Information Facility Presentation |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Tea break |
| Theme 3: New Roles and Opportunities | |
| Session chair: Dr Andrew Kaniki, National Research Foundation | |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | The Final Seal of Approval : Directives for Data Producers/researchers, Data Consumers and Digital Archives, Henk Harmsen, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) Presentation |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Enabling Access to Scientific and Technical Data-sets in eScience : a role for Library Science, James L. Mullins, Dean of Purdue University Libraries
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| 17:30 – 18:00 | ... so what have we learnt? Andrew Kaniki, National Research Foundation |
| Day 2: Workshop: | Longevity of digital research output. Where are we and what are our infrastructural and process needs? |
| 08:30 – 10:30 | Plenary session |
| Theme 4: Curation of African Digital Content | |
| Session chair: Dr Kagiso Chikane, CSIR | |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | State of Scientific Data in Africa, Dr Achuo Enow , International Council for Science, Regional Office for Africa Presentation |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Oceanographic Data and Information Initiatives in Africa, Alfonse Dubi, University of Dar es Salaam, Institute of Marine Sciences Presentation |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Situation in South Africa : Outcome of NeDIC Investigation, Roy Page-Shipp, Consultant Presentation |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Digital Curation : the Legal Framework in South Africa, Graham Dominy, National Archives, South Africa Presentation |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Tea break |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Theme 5: Digital Management and Curation Practices in Specific Sciences. Five parallel sessions with a consolidation session in the afternoon. |
| Theme 5.1: Natural Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Technical, etc.) Coordinators: Zeblon Vilakazi, iTHEMBA Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences and Patricia Whitelock, South African Astronomical Observatory Curation in Natural Sciences, Z.Z. Vilakzi, iThemba LABS and UCT-CERN Research Centre Presentation
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| Theme 5.2: Life and Medical Sciences Coordinators: Fourie Joubert, University of Pretoria and Nicola Mulder, University of Cape Town Presentation Feedback from session We will start off with a brief presentation, and then discuss:
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| Theme 5.3: Social Sciences Coordinators: Faye Reagon, Human Sciences Research Council; Lynn Woolfrey, DataFirst and Matile Malimabe, StatsSA Introductory Presentation The objective of the workshop is to identify the needs and requirements of and possible strategies for the Social Science & Humanities community to ensure the preservation and sharing of African research data and related documentation. In order to do this, the anticipated outcomes of the workshop are to:
Institutional Data Curation Implementation, Human Sciences Research Council Presentation Survey Metadata Tool : Data Management and Information Delivery Project (DMID), Matile Malimabe, Statistics South Africa Presentation DataFirst and Data Curation, Lynn Woolfrey, University of Cape Town Presentation Data integration at the South African Data Archive (SADA), Dr Daisy Selematsela, National Research Foundation Presentation |
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| Theme 5.4: Spatial Sciences Coordinators: Heidi van Deventer, CSIR and Marina Strydom, Johannesburg Citi Parks Curation of Spatial Data in RSA, facilitated by Heidi van Deventer, CSIR and Maryna Strydom (SRK) Presentation Feedback from session Workshop participants to discuss the following:
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| Theme 5.5: Curation of Information Coordinators: Ina Smith, University of Pretoria and Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town 11:00 - 11:30 Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) : Audit Toolkit : (DRAMBORA), Andrew McHugh, Perla Innocenti, Seamus Ross, Raivo Ruusalepp, Hans Hofman, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), HATII at the University of Glasgow, and National Archives of the Netherlands Presentation 11:30 - 12:00 Digitisation - the 3 Cs: Copyright, Contracts and Creative Commons, Denise Nicholson, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Presentation 12:00 – 12:30 Data Curation Repositories : from past to present, Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town . Presentation 12:30 – 12:30 Data curation in an existing infrastructure : Stellenbosh University, Wouter Klapwijk, Stellenbosch University. Presentation Open discussion on the following: What can/should the repository and archiving community do to support researchers at institutions? What tools can/should we use? How does this relate to other archiving efforts (e.g., ETDs, Open Access)? |
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Theme 6 Plenary: Developing an African Digital Management and Curation Agenda in Support of eResearch |
| Session chair: Dr Daisy Selematsela, National Research Foundation | |
| Feedback from workshops: Action required to move forward. | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | The way ahead: Formalised policy Roles and responsibilities The need for a formalised Network of African Data and Information Curation Centres (NeDICC) wider than just the partner organisations DST/Roy Page-Shipp to lead the discussion. Way Forward Presentation |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Networking opportunity |
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