[Geo4All] Fw: [CODATA-international] Call for Applications - The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science School, Pretoria 13- 24 January 2020 - Deadline 15 October 2019

Fri Sep 13 02:22:00 PDT 2019

Thanks, Suchith, we will consider sending our students to the summer
school. We are already in contact with some of the local organizers.

Regards,
Serena

Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
University of Pretoria
Professor and Head of Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 1-3.7, Hatfield Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083,
South Africa
email: serena.coetzee at up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/ggm · Mobile: +27 82 464
4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823

Stakeholder analysis of the governance framework of a national SDI dataset
– whose needs are met in the buildings and address register of the
Netherlands?
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2018.1520930>
Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International
Standardization Perspective <https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/6/280>

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 12:39 PM Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Might be of good opportunity for GeoForAll to get involved and contribute .
>
>
> Victoria, Serena, please see the details . Might be good opportunity
> to contact CODATA to explore synergies. Thanks.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
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> *Subject:* [CODATA-international] Call for Applications - The CODATA-RDA
> Research Data Science School, Pretoria 13- 24 January 2020 - Deadline 15
> October 2019
>
>
> University of Pretoria – Department of Information Science in
> collaboration with DIRISA, SADiLaR and NeDICC
>
> *Duration: 13–24 January 2020*
> *Location: Pretoria, South Africa*
>
> The school provides early career researchers (M-level to postdoc) with the
> foundational data science skills, which include technical skills and
> responsible research practices, to enable them to work with their data in
> an effective and efficient manner required by 21st-century research.
> Description
>
> The material covered by the programme is fundamental to all areas of
> research, and thus open to researchers and professionals from all
> disciplines that deal with signifi amounts of research data. The goal is to
> provide a practical introduction to these topics with some theory and
> extensive hands-on training.
> Topics
>
>    - Open Science
>    - Introduction to Unix Shell
>    - Introduction to Git
>    - Open and Collaborative Research
>    - Research Data Management
>    - Data Cleaning – using Open Refine
>    - Data Analysis and Visualisation – using R
>    - Data Intensive Social Science
>    - Author Carpentry
>    - Information Security
>    - Machine Learning and Neural Networks
>    - Research Computational Infrastructure
>
> Costs
>
> The school is heavily sponsored. Successful applicants will be expected to
> pay a fee of R1  150 once the application is accepted. This fee includes
> all training and catering (lunches). Applicants are responsible for their
> own travel and accommodation arrangements.
> How to Apply:
>
> *Application deadline: 15 October 2019*
> Online application and further information:
> *https://www.dirisa.ac.za/calendar/codata-rda-research-data-science-applied-workshops-extreme-sources-data-bioinformatics-iotbig-data-analytics/
> <https://www.dirisa.ac.za/calendar/codata-rda-research-data-science-applied-workshops-extreme-sources-data-bioinformatics-iotbig-data-analytics/>*
> The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Applied Workshops on Extreme Sources
> of Data, Bioinformatics and IoT/Big-Data Analytics – DIRISA
> <https://www.dirisa.ac.za/calendar/codata-rda-research-data-science-applied-workshops-extreme-sources-data-bioinformatics-iotbig-data-analytics/>
> www.dirisa.ac.za
> Apply on – http://indico.ictp.it/event/8170/
>
> *Females, Social Scientists and participants from developing countries are
> encouraged to apply*
> International Directors
>
>    - H Shanahan (Royal Holloway University, UK)
>    - L Bezuidenhout (University of Oxford, UK)
>
> Local Organisers
>
>    - A Vahed (DIRISA) | B Peterson, (NWU)
>    - J Steyn (SADiLAR, NWU)
>    - J van Wyk (NeDICC) M Holmner (UP)
>    - M van Deventer (UP)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Asha
>
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