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Network of Data & Information Curation Communities http://nedicc.wordpress.com
NeDICC Its role and plans for 2016
Data citation as a catalyst for good RDM practices workshop
10 December 2015
CSIR Knowledge Commons, Pretoria
Network of Data and Information Curation Communities (NeDICC) aims to promote
the development and use of standards and best practices to ensure the usability of
digital material in support of e-Research in South Africa
Who / What is NeDICC?
• Current members
– ASSAf, ARC, CSIR, HSRC, NRF, UP, UNISA, WITS
• Organisations which have accepted an invitation to participate from Jan 2016
– SU, UCT, VUT
• Steering committee
– Johann van Wyk (UP), Ronel Bezuidenhout (UNISA), Lucia Lötter (HSRC)
Membership
• A forum to exchange experience and opinions
• Promote communication and co-operation between members through meetings, seminars, workshops and conferences and collaborative projects to:
– Address issues of interest / concern
– Promote awareness and best practices
– Showcase work and initiatives
– Expose the community to new developments and trends
– Provide opportunities to engage with a wider audience
– Develop the knowledge and skills of members
– Develop shared tools
Aims of NeDICC
NeDICC’s role
Industry
research collaborators
standards bodies
testbeds & tools
communities of practice:
users
community support & outreach
research
development
services management
& co-ordination
curation organisations
Collaborative Associates Network of Data Organisations
Source: Berry, D. 2004. UK e-Science, e-Science: Computational Grid Infrastructure and Scientific & Engineering Applications Delhi, February 2004
NeDICC supporting RDM
Data stewardship: http://www.eresearch.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/140/DIRISA_busPlan_eResConf.pdf
Institutional level: Data stewards
NeDICC
Recent NeDICC activities
• Build relationships with external community and leverage relationships on behalf of NeDICC and in support of RDM – Active participation in forums (DIRISA, CODATA,
RDA, etc.)
• Sustain NeDICC – Extend invitations to more organisations to
participate
– Use of virtual communication technologies to support participation across various geographic locations
Goals for 2016
• Support Research Data Management (RDM)
– Capacity building, shared tools and services
– Vehicles: Monthly meetings, NeDICC workshops, participation in training events, collaborative projects
– Approach: learning–teaching
Goals for 2016
Investigate Develop Share /
Use Review
– Collaborative projects (NeDICC, DIRISA)
• Data Management Planning tool
• Islandora data repository
Programme for 2016
Date Capacity building event
16 March 2016 Workshop: Services to support the life of research data
March 2016 Carnegie CPD Training
18 May 2016 Workshop: Researcher engagement around RDM
June 2016 Carnegie CPD Training
7-10 June 2016 RDM Workshop at the Southern African Online Information Meeting (SAOIM) Workshop
17 August 2016 Workshop: Data dissemination platforms
14 September 2016 Discussion: Change management, advocacy and lobbying in support of RDM
Programme for 2016
• Connect people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to interact, either as frequently or at all.
• Provide a shared context for people to communicate and share information, stories, and personal experiences in a way that builds understanding and insight.
• Enable dialogue between people who come together to explore new possibilities, solve challenging problems, and create new, mutually beneficial opportunities.
• Stimulate learning by serving as a vehicle for authentic communication, mentoring, coaching, and self-reflection.
• Capture and diffuse existing knowledge to help people improve their practice by providing a forum to identify solutions to common problems and a process to collect and evaluate best practices.
• Introduce collaborative processes to groups and organizations as well as between organizations to encourage the free flow of ideas and exchange of information.
• Help people organize around purposeful actions that deliver tangible results.
• Generate new knowledge to help people transform their practice to accommodate changes in needs and technologies.
NeDICC – A value proposition
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/nli0531.pdf
