UNESCO/IOC Sub Commission for Africa & the Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA) is organising in partnership with KMFRI Mombasa, International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN), The Nippon Foundation – GEBCO Seabed 2030 and CODATA and with the support of OceanTeacher Global Academy (OTGA) a training on the Implementation of FAIR Principles to African Marine and Coastal Data.
The course will take place face-to-face between 23 to 26 September, 2024, with a duration of approximately 32 hours. The course also has an online learning component to be completed before the onsite classes of approximately 12h (to be available in the OTGA e-learning platform from late-August until the beginning of the course).
This blended training focuses on the management, publication, and quality control of marine biodiversity and geospatial data.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course the participants should be able to:
- Gain insights into data governance principles, including privacy, security, and ethical considerations.
- Acquire knowledge of data citation and attribution through learning about best practices for acknowledging data sources and providing appropriate credit.
- Gain knowledge on how to access and contribute to global datasets as participants in ODINAFRICA and interconnect national portals with regional and global systems
- Build and strengthen skills in data management, standardisation, and documentation, and knowledge of when and how to apply appropriate metadata standards such as International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Darwin Core (DwC), and JSON-LD through the schema.org framework
- Learn to publish high-quality (meta)data to the Africa Coastal and Marine Atlas (ACMA)
- Understand Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and their value in published data papers.
For more information, click on the following link : https://oceanexpert.org/event/4096#overview
