Big data; small data; case study; SKA, research data management; university libraries; NeDICC; NRF announcement; UCT, UP, Wits; training intervention; DCC; Carnegie
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Mobilising a nation: RDM education and training in South Africa
1. 1
Mobilising a nation:
RDM Education & Training
in South Africa
Dr Heila Pienaar (University of Pretoria)
Refiloe Matlatse (Ernst & Young)
Dr Martie van Deventer (CSIR)
Pretoria, South Africa
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Beyond the transformational science it will carry out –
advancing’s humanity’s knowledge – the SKA will collect
and process vast amounts of data and will stimulate
cutting-edge advances in high-performance computing
and Big Data science – especially the processing,
analysis and visualisation of very large data sets.
Computer hardware and processing algorithms are being
developed in many of the SKA countries, and there is a
great deal of technology development and transfer, as well
as the creation of very high-level skills. This mega-project is
therefore an ideal platform to excite young people about
careers in science, engineering and technology, and to
deliver skills that will be in demand in the global knowledge
economy of the future.
6. Big data education & training initiatives
• The Department of Science and Technology (DST) in South
Africa has approved the establishment and funding of a National
e-Science Postgraduate Teaching and Training Platform in
September 2016. A curriculum for Big Data training will be made
available in 2018 for implementation.
• The University of Pretoria (UP) is introducing a Master's degree
in Information Technology (Stream C: Big Data Science) from
2017. From 2017, a UP Data Science stream in the BSc IT
(Information and Knowledge Systems) degree program will also
be offered.
• The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg is
presenting a BSc Honours in the field of Big Data Analytics.
• The Sol Plaatje University in the Northern Cape Province is
offering a Bachelor of Science degree in Data Science.
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7. National Research Foundation (NRF)
announcement driving Small Data initiatives
…that “from 01 March 2015 authors of
research papers generated from research
funded by the NRF … deposit their final
peer-reviewed manuscripts to … Institution
Repository. The data supporting the
publication should be deposited with a DOI
in an Open repository”
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8. Small data formal education & training initiatives
• The Library and Information Study Centre (LISC) at the
University of Cape Town (UCT) are presenting several
courses in data curation and RDM. It is the first university
in Africa to offer a full Masters course specialising in
Digital Curation. A short course in Research Data
Management is also offered on an annual basis.
• The Information Science department at UP is responsible
for a Carnegie-funded training programmes for African
Librarians. An M. IT in Librarianship (Stream B) and a
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme
for Librarians are offered. Both programmes include one
module in RDM training.
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9. Small data informal education & training initiatives
• The Network of Data and Information Curation
Communities (NeDICC) Community of Practice (CoP) is
an informal network for RDM practitioners in SA
universities and research councils.
• NeDICC members are involved in the UP M.IT and
CPD training, and as external examiners for the UCT
M. Phil in Digital Curation.
• NeDICC is responsible for the RDM track in the annual
e-Research conference in SA (http://www.eresearch.ac.za/).
• NeDICC has a programme each year for training and
workshop opportunities with SA & external trainers.
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10. NeDICC workshops 2016: hands-on & virtual
• The life of research data and a roadmap to
enable the implementation of services to support
RDM.
• Data management planning.
• The role of the information professional in
researcher engagement.
• Evaluation of research data repository
applications.
• A library carpentry initiative focussing on the
cleaning of data with Open Refine.
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Date Activity Topic
26 January 2017 CoP Meeting
The implementation of an Institutional
Data Repository (UCT: Kayleigh Roos,
Erika Mias)
15 February
2017
NeDICC
Workshop
Long-lived Data: Tools to Preserve
Research Data (UP: Johann van Wyk
and Isak van der Walt
14 June 2017 NeDICC
Workshop
Data Information Literacy (US)
19 July 2017
NeDICC
Workshop
Data Discovery and Metadata (UNISA)
16 August 2017 CoP Meeting
13 September
2017
NeDICC
Workshop
(UCT)
18 October 2017 NeDICC
Workshop
Trustworthy Data Repository
Certification (CSIR, HSRC)
16 November
2017
CoPMeeting
NeDICC Programme
2017
12. Codata workshop on Data Citation: Dec 2015
12
NeDICC members from different institutions (speakers)
13. Case study: evaluation of a training intervention
(M.IT mini-dissertation)
• Topic of the workshop: RDM practices and principles.
• Objective: To provide participants with basic
knowledge on how to start managing data.
• A NeDICC & DCC collaboration.
• Speakers:
– Joy Davidson & Sarah Jones (DCC, UK).
– Prof Jim Mullins (Purdue, US).
– Elias Makonko (HSRC, SA).
– Dr Anwar Vahed (DIRISA (Data Intensive
Research Initiative for SA), SA).
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https://nedicc.com/2015/08/20/uk-research-data-management-experts-at-the-csir/
14. Programme
• Attendance: 70 librarians, information specialists and
research-assisting personnel from universities and
research councils across the country.
• Funding: funded by NeDICC.
• Programme:
– RDM: what it’s all about, the benefits & drivers.
– The impact that RDM has had on the profile & standing of
the library at Purdue University.
– CARDIO quick quiz & discussion.
– The state of RDM in South Africa.
– DIRISA and its implications for RDM in South Africa.
– Useful RDM tools and services – resources you can re-use.
– DMPonline – brief talk and demo.
– Developing a data roadmap for your institution.
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15. Evaluation of the workshop
• Objective: to identify and evaluate a RDM training
intervention to determine whether the intervention
could enhance the perception of RDM
understanding, knowledge and skills of LIS.
professionals in SA Higher Education Institutions
• Design: An embedded research design was used,
combining a quasi-experimental design which is a
quantitative research design (non-randomised
control group pre-test-post-test design) and a case
study research design, a qualitative research design.
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17. Questionnaire topics
• Demographic information.
– Institution
– Age range
– Title of job
– Years of experience
• Knowledge regarding RDM.
– Policy & mandate at your institution
– What aspects should be addressed by the policy &
mandate
– RDM services at your institution
– What services should be offered
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18. – Who should be responsible to lead the RDM effort
– Rate your understanding of RDM on a scale of 1-4
– Do you think you have the necessary disciplinary
background to offer RDM services / advice
– Where do you consider your own knowledge gap to be in
RDM (list of choices)
– Where do you consider your own skills gap to be in RDM
(list of choices)
• Added to Questionnaire 2:
– What would you have liked to be included
– What did you learn that was really useful
– Do you feel confident that you would be able to guide
research staff in terms of RDM
– Do you have an other comment about future RDM
workshops
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19. Analysis – a few examples
• Response rate: Q1=52%; Q2=36%
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21. Results & recommendations
• The research found that the RDM workshop was highly
successful in enhancing the participant’s perception of their
RDM understanding and knowledge. The RDM workshop was
less successful in enhancing the participant’s perception of their
RDM skills.
• It was recommended that LIS professionals (1) take advantage
of the online RDM training materials available to enhance their
understanding and knowledge of RDM; (2) attend face-to-face
training interventions to enhance or develop their RDM skills
and (3) enrol in university level educational programmes to gain
a qualification in RDM if they qualify. It was also recommended
that institutions that provide RDM training should focus on
specific aspects of RDM instead of offering a general
overview.
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24. Conclusion & lessons learned
• It is clear that both formal and informal RDM education and training
are thriving in South Africa.
• It is also clear that the international SKA project is the funding focus
area for the DST. (money falling into a big black hole)
• Data stewards would therefore, in the short term at least, accept
responsibility for their own training.
• Training and workshops organised by NeDICC are carried by the
community both in terms of presenters and funding – these would
need to continue.
• After the evaluation of the NeDICC & DCC workshop, NeDICC’s
training has become more practical e.g. the Library carpentry
workshop.
• NeDICC should perhaps become a more formal / legal organisation
to be officially acknowledged for its role, e.g. a consortium
• Educators and trainers for all types of research data management
should find ways to collaborate.
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25. Mobilising a Nation?
• It remains to be seen if these training initiatives
(formal & informal) will be sufficient to really mobilise
South Africa in terms of research data.
• NeDICC activities definitely appear to have started
formal RDM practice, and the future of Big data
training looks promising …
• We have hope that our researchers, with the
assistance of dedicated data stewards, will ensure
that the quality of our data is such that accredited
repositories would be prepared to make the data
accessible for re-use.
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26. Bibliography
• Matlatse, R.L. 2015. An evaluation of a structured training event aimed at
enhancing the research data management (RDM) knowledge and skills of
Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals in South African Higher
Education Institutions (HEIS). University of Pretoria, Unpublished Master of
Information Technology (B) mini-dissertation.
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58393
• Pienaar, H., Van Deventer, M.J. 2015. Research Data Management (RDM)
in a Developing Country: a personal journey. 10th
Digital Curation
Conference, 9-12 February 2015, London, United Kingdom.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/IDCC15/Presentations
%20Day%202/C3/Research%20Data%20Management%20in%20a
%20Developing%20Country.pdf Session report (blog):
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/blog/idcc15-session-report-decade-digital-curation
• Van Deventer, M., Pienaar, H. 2015. Research Data Management in a
Developing Country: A Personal Journey. International Journal of Digital
Curation. 2015, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 33-47.
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/380 ;
doi:10.2218/ijdc.v10i2.380
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