Conveners
DIRISA
- Chair: Mr Sthembiso Mkhwanazi (CSIR)
DIRISA
- Chair: Mr Isak Van der Walt (UP Library)
DIRISA
- Chair: Ms Nobubele Shozi (CSIR)
That research data should be shared with the rest of the world has become almost evangelical in nature. This paper will try to answer the following questions:
• What are the (real) reasons for ‘forcing’ scientists to open their data, even if they are not ready to do so?
• What right have non-scientists (and scientists) to push indiscriminately for the sharing of data without taking the nuances...
For the promise of genomics to drive precision medicine to be realized, numerous human genome sequence samples and high depth coverage and from a variety of populations is required. Through initiatives like H3Africa, population scale genomics is being applied to help characterize diverse African populations that have currently not been featured in the genomics revolution. African genomes...
According to Feeney, Mary & Ross, Seamus in Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship, British Achievements, Prospects, and Barriers https://www.jstor.org/stable/20755828, The growth of digital media means that the main areas of scholarship can each benefit from expansions in their own way thanks to the infinite shareability of digital content.
With the ever-expanding affordances that...
The drivers and principles for managing research data at the University of South Africa is driven by the increasing number of policies published by funders of research to ensure the validation of research results. The funder requirements expects the following from research outputs:
• To make provision for data reuse,
• To enable actionable and socially beneficial science from publicly funded...
A brief overview of the Technology stack used by DIRISA to provide storage infrastructure and services will be provided.
Extended Title: An Investigation into the integration of Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and Data Upload Service for use in Data Intensive Research in South Africa (DIRISA).
Abstract: The use of Digital Object Identifiers has become an increasingly important topic within the research and data space. This is mainly due to the fact that researchers want their data to be easily findable,...
Research funders around the world are realizing the importance of data management planning. Increasingly research public funders globally, now require data management plans to be submitted with research proposals as a condition of funding support. This is also true in South Africa where research funders such as the National Research Foundation (NRF) already require researchers to provide a...
The mandate of the South African Weather Service (SAWS) is to provide weather, climate and air quality related information, products, services and solutions that contribute to the safety of life and property in the air, land and sea. To deliver on its mandate, SAWS operates a comprehensive weather observation network and also runs models in operational mode. The observation network includes 14...
One of the principal benefits of and drivers for Open Science is the open use of shared infrastructures for science. The digital age offers huge opportunities for the accelerated creation of and networked access to data for research. The exploitation of this through the Internet, the Web, Grids, e-Science, Research Infrastructures, Open Science Clouds and Platforms has been a major driver of...
ILIFU is the isiXhosa word for Cloud, an apt representation of the first node in the data infrastructure funded by the Department of Science and Technology to support the National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System of South Africa. This presentation will provide an overview of the ILIFU model of shared infrastructure as a data-intensive research facility for big data management, storage...
A data management plan (DMP) is a document that describes how you will collect, organise, manage, store, secure, back- up, preserve, and where applicable, share your data. The DMP should be created at the start of a research project so that good practices are established early. The following aspects will be discussed:
- Benefits of a dmp tool
- Core checklist for a dmp tool
- Examples...
