Open science - data oriented - training workshop for Marine biologists in Madagascar

Sylvie Fiat, Julien Barde, Mamy-Nirina Rajaonarivelo, Esthere Garnier, Herinomena Andriamasinoro, Dominique Ponton
2021 Zenodo  
Research data management is an issue that is not yet well addressed in academic teaching, especially in low income countries. However, its necessity is more and more recognized, especially in the context of research reproducibility, data management plans and the recent multiplication of works related to the emergence of artificial intelligence. Since 2020, two Malagasy institutes, the Institute of fisheries and marine science ( IH.SM) and the National Centre Oceanographic Researches ( CNRO),
more » ... e joined forces with teams from the French Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) to create the MIKAROKA International Mixed Laboratory (LMI) in order to create a functional and sustainable observation platform for coastal marine biodiversity and its uses in Madagascar. One of the strong objectives of the Laboratory is to support partners in strengthening their research and training capacities. The idea of the open science oriented training workshop came from the data management team of the Laboratory and was funded by the Structuring Training Project (PSF) program of IRD in 2021. Malgasy students and researchers in the marine doman will be invited to attend this training workshop to acquire additional data skills dealing with open science and FAIR management of research data. The workshop should occur in december 2021 and will bring together data specialists from domains such as Nagoya protocols, Biodiversity data management and data warehouses. Feedbacks from researchers on several systems of data valorization will also be proposed as well as tutorials on the implementation of data processing chains. Workshop content, such as video captures of sessions, presentation materials, code, tutorials, and shared notes, will be made openly available to all through a publication/repository in the DataSuds data warehouse using DOIs. The entire training will also be made available online using an (open source) online digital resource sharing platform.</ [...]
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5571053 fatcat:2sr6ji6h55eqppatgvdsycy4hm