A5019929158- Research Data Management Practices
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Science and Climate Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Library Science and Information Systems
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Data Quality and Management
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Big Data and Digital Economy
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Digital and Traditional Archives Management
- Big Data Technologies and Applications
- Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Mobile and Web Applications
Data Archiving Networked Services (DANS)
2023
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2023
South African Environmental Observation Network
2013-2021
Science Factory
2020
National Research Foundation
2018
As information and communication technology has become pervasive in our society, we are increasingly dependent on both digital data repositories that provide access to enable the use of such resources. Repositories must earn trust communities they intend serve demonstrate reliable capable appropriately managing hold.
Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) are fundamental variables that can be used for assessing biodiversity change over time, determining adherence to policy, monitoring progress towards sustainable development goals, and tracking responses disturbances management interventions. Data from observations or models provide measured estimated EBV values, which we refer as data products, help capture the above processes trends serve a coherent framework documenting in biodiversity. Using primary...
There is currently a lack of representative, systematic and harmonised greenhouse gas (GHG) observations covering the variety natural human-altered biomes that occur in Africa. This impedes long-term assessment drivers climate change, addition to their impacts feedback loops at continental scale, but also limits our understanding contribution African continent global carbon (C) cycle. Given current projected transformation socio-economic conditions Africa (i.e. increasing trend urbanisation...
Abstract Global population projections foresee the biggest increase to occur in Africa with most of available uncultivated land ensure food security remaining on continent. Simultaneously, greenhouse gas emissions are expected rise due ongoing use change, industrialisation, and transport amongst other reasons becoming a major emitter gases globally. However, distinct knowledge sources sinks as well their variability remains largely unknown caused by its vast size diversity an according lack...
The CODATA Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal, publishing papers on the management, dissemination, use and reuse of research data databases across all domains, including science, technology, humanities arts. scope journal includes descriptions systems, their implementations publication, applications, infrastructures, software, legal, reproducibility transparency issues, availability usability complex datasets, with particular focus principles,...
Information related to research sites is essential when describing the context of observations. It a key element site-based infrastructures (RIs) and their catalogues. This paper dedicated comparison (meta)data models in ecosystem domain. A special focus on terrestrial freshwater ecosystems. should provide basis for common data model exchange from different catalogue services. substantially improve interoperability site-level information between RIs. For this purpose, we selected...
In the case of African continent, estimates most climate forcing components are associated with large uncertainties, above all greenhouse gas budget. The EU-funded SEACRIFOG project is designing an observation network which aims at reducing these uncertainties. this practice paper, we present various steps towards design and discuss data-related implications. This includes formulation appropriate observational requirements for each variable considered essential to quantify Africa-wide as...
This document is the second iteration of recommendations for making semantic artefacts FAIR. These result from initial discussions during a brainstorming workshop organised by FAIRsFAIR as co-located event with 14th RDA Plenary meeting in Helsinki. Based on feedback received there, 17 preliminary related to one or more FAIR principles, and 10 best practice were documented. first published Deliverable 2.2 at beginning 2020[1]. Following various dissemination stakeholder engagement activities,...
Biogas is a renewable fuel that can be used for electrical power, heating/cooling, and as transport fuel. This study assessed the feasibility of using biogas to buses in city Johannesburg, South Africa. The use transportation delivers more financial value-adding compared electricity-R235/GJ R111/GJ electricity. cultivation land energy crops feedstock production will require at least seven hectares per bus; which place additional demands on city's scarce resources create potential conflicts...