IDW 2018 combines the 12th RDA Plenary Meeting , the biannual meeting of this international member organisation working to develop and support global infrastructure facilitating data sharing and re-use, and SciDataCon 2018 , the scientific conference addressing the frontiers of data in research.


SciDataCon 2018: IDW18 Approved Sessions 

We are pleased to announce that the SciDatraCon2018 call for sessions is now closed, and the following sessions have been reviewed and approved:

  • 124 Skills-development in an increasingly data-driven science environment: an African perspective – Ina Smith
  • 125 Metadata for 2020 and Beyond: Collaborative approaches to advancing metadata – Clare Dean
  • 127 Designing inclusive capacity development for those engaging with Agriculture and Nutrition data – Alan Stanley
  • 129 Issues and best practices for data stewardship: recommendations for African countries and institutions – Kgomotso Moahi
  • 131 Open data, open science in Agriculture and Nutrition a Case for Developing Countries – Irene Wambui Kimani
  • 133 Frameworks for Agricultural Data Production and Education in Africa – The Role of the Data Revolution – Kiringai Kamau
  • 135 Agriculture Data and Citizens in the African Open Research Data Space – Boniface Okelo Akuku
  • 136 The Role of the Marginalised in Open Data Driven Innovation – Obwaya Mogire
  • 137 Visualization and Pattern Recognition Techniques for Understanding – Data Wafula Muliaro
  • 139 Data for Effective Humanitarian Decision-Making: Challenges and Opportunities – Tefera Darge Delbiso
  • 149 Improving Data Repository Trustworthiness – Robert R Downs
  • 150 Issues in the Relationships of Upstream Research Data to Downstream Innovation – Paul Uhlir
  • 151 Building, managing and maintaining data and knowledge-sharing ecosystems for medium-sized research centres – Wiebke Toussaint
  • 157 International Sanctions and Open Data: Overcoming Problematic Legacies – Louise Bezuidenhout
  • 158 Measuring the Impact of Data Citation Practices in Research – Anwar Vahed
  • 160 African Data Centres: Challenges and Opportunities – Alex M. de Sherbinin
  • 162 Exploring Benefits (and Challenges) of a More Holistic Approach to Research Outputs – Martin Donnelly
  • 164 Scientific Data Challenges for Sustainable Development –Sandy P Harrison
  • 166 Data Revolution for Local Impact – Data Policy and Innovation Use Cases from Tanzania Zaituni – Anthony Kaijage
  • 170 Multi-disciplinary data infrastructure for South African Research – Dale Peters
  • 171 Open Research Data in Health and Population Research – Kobus Herbst
  • 178 The Role of Early Career Researchers and Scientists in the Data Revolution – Alice Frémand
  • 180 Biodiversity Data Management Safeguarding Species by 2040 – Raymond Katebaka
  • 181 Motivations and recognition for good data stewardship – Marta Teperek
  • 182 Research Data in the Arts and Humanities – Requirements, Needs, and Perspectives of Research Data and Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities – Jan Brase
  • 183 Research data services on campus – Strategies, needs and experience at universities – Jan Brase
  • 187 Applications and utilization of data in understanding the effect of changing weather and a warming climate over Africa – Mary-Jane Morongwa Bopape
  • 188 Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Science, Research, and the Governance of Indigenous Data – Stephanie Carroll Rainie
  • 190 From Data to Knowledge: A Policy Perspective – Paul Uhlir
  • 191 Harnessing the power of the digital revolution: Data- and computation-driven research for Environmental Hazards – Carolynne Hultquist
  • 192 Communal Data Access and Management – Tyng-Ruey Chuang
  • 195 African perceptions of Open Science Amel Ghouila
  • 196 Democratising Data Publishing: A Global Perspective – Chris Armit
  • 197 Transboundary Data Sharing for Natural Resources Management in Africa and Elsewhere Monica – Sue Morrison
  • 202 Open Land Data Platforms: applications, progress and challenges – Mercy Mwanikah Ojoyi
  • 203 Big Data Challenges in the Biomedical field – Nicky Mulder
  • 206 Data Science and Data Analysis – Health Research Data – Kagiso Ndlovu
  • 207 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Data at the Subnational Level – Nicholas Weber
  • 208 Repositories: Are we serving our scientists? Cross-learnings from multiple disciplines – Elaine M. Faustman
  • 210 Preservation of personal biodiversity data collections – Mosepele Boiditswe
  • 211 Citizen Science Data – from Collection to Curation to Management – Alex M. de Sherbinin
  • 212 Data Transport for the Long Neck of Research – Tiwonge Msulira Banda
  • 213 Libraries’ Application of Data Intelligence – Wouter Klapwijk
  • 214 Cross disciplinary drone data: challenges and opportunities – Jane Wyngaard
  • 215 New and Emerging Technologies in Agriculture – Lindsay Barbieri
  • 219 Counting People to Leave No One Behind: Why we need a data revolution – Bill Anderson
  • 221 An Action Plan for Agriculture and Nutrition Open Data in Africa – Muchiri Nyaggah
  • 222 Health Databases across the African Continent: What do we have and what do we need for Sustainable Development? – Claudia I. Emerson
  • 223 Data interoperability in chemistry, biology, and crystallography: Enabling multidisciplinary solutions to societal challenges – Ian Bruno
  • 224 Using Data to Connect Resources to Results for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – Jennifer D Turner
  • 225 Data Librarianship: Bridging the Gap between Educational Provision and Workforce Requirements – Armin Straube
  • 226 Learning to build cultural practices for sharing data and knowledge inside the academy and beyond – Mark Parsons
  • 229 Turning FAIR Data Into Reality: discussion, critique and implementation – Simon Hodson
  • 230 Dialogue and Coordination Between National Statistical Offices and University Research Data Repositories in Developing Countries – Samuel Kobina Annim
  • 232 Data Integration for Science – a major global challenge for interdisciplinary research – Simon Hodson
  • 235 The African Universities Response to the Challenges of the Data Revolution – Margareth Gfrerer
  • 236 Data Science for CyberSecurity – Vukosi Marivate
  • 237 Data for Good: Moving beyond data – Vukosi Marivate
  • 238 The impact of data revolution on science and technology education and research in Africa: the perspective of bioinformatics – Faisal Mohamed Fadlelmola
  • 242 Visualization and Exploration tools for unconventional datasets – Suresh Vannan
  • 243 Data Skills Initiatives With Links to the Global South – Sarah Jones
  • 244 Sharing lessons on data science teaching techniques, methods and materials – Hugh Shanahan
  • 245 Challenges in Achieving Legal Interoperability of Research Data – Robert Chen
  • 246 Global Platform(s) on Big Data in Agriculture – Elizabeth Leake
  • 247 Spatial Data for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa – Alex M. de Sherbinin
  • 249 Building Efficient Capacity for Resilience and Sustainable Development Through Community and Collaborative Data Collection and Sharing – Komlan Richard Folly
  • 251 Space-Based Earth Observation Data and Application for Development – Kofi Asare
  • 252 Delivering a Global Open Science Commons – Simon Hodson
  • 256 From Galaxies to The Global Goals: using Data Skills for Development – Kevin Govender
  • 258 Ethics and the Power of Data in Global Health: Specifying Our Obligations – Claudia I Emerson
  • 260 Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Discovery: A DATA Perspective Steve – Jonathan Brewer
  • 262 Open Data from Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, how far are we? – Augustina Frimpong
  • 264 General Submissions – Mustapha Mokrane 

Visit https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/approved_sessions/ for more details. 

Abstracts for papers and posters can be submitted on the SciDataCon website at: http://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/submit 


RDA 12th Plenary: IDW18 call for sessions to be announced 

The RDA call for sessions applications will open in May 2018. Watch this space for relevant announcements.

Key dates:

  • 14 May 2018: RDA call for sessions applications opens
  • 29 June 2018 (midnight UTC): RDA call for sessions applications closes
  • 7 August 2018: Notification of acceptance for RDA sessions
  • 9 August 2018: Final RDA session programme published