DWB Training for Scientists: Mobilizing Ethnobiological Data in Africa – 45. Diversity Workbench Workshop, at ITCER, Kenya
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arranged by NFDI4Biodiversity and SNSB IT Center (in presence: Ng’iya, Siaya County)
This DWB Training for scientists at ITCER Kenya continues existing activities within an ethnobiological research project on management and publication of scientific data on traditional mycological and lichenological knowledge in Africa. The training includes practical work with Diversity Workbench (DWB) tools. Colleagues from Africa and Germany discuss opportunities for further scientific and technical collaborations. The advanced DWB approaches for data mobilization, data processing and data publication in Africa will reach data interoperability with regional, national and global data platforms like those of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and the upcoming German National Research Data Infrastructure while maintaining regional data sovereignty.
Contact persons for technical and local event organisation
- Josphat Matasyoh, Egerton University, ITCER Kenya
- Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, ITCER e.V., ITCER Kenya
Contact person for ethnobiology in Africa and the project "EthnoMycAfrica"
- Rosemary Tonjock Kinge, The University of Bamenda, Cameroon
Contact persons for DWB issues
- Dagmar Triebel, Bavarian Natural History Collections, SNSB IT Center, NFDI4Biodiversity
- Tanja Weibulat, Bavarian Natural History Collections, SNSB IT Center, NFDI4Biodiversity
Invitees and participants#
- Rosemary Kinge, University of Bamenda, Cameroon (on site)
- Joyce Jefwa, Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya (on site)
- Roël D. Houdanon, University of Parakou, Benin
- Heritier Milenge Kamalebo, Inst. Supérieur Pédag. of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem, Suez Canal University, Egypt
- Olyvia Fadeyi, University of Parakou, Benin
- Nourou S. Yorou, University of Parakou, Benin
- George Omondi, County Government of Siaya, Kenya (on site)
- Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, ITCER Kenya (on site)
- Dagmar Triebel, SNSB IT Center, Munich, Germany (on site)
- Tanja Weibulat, SNSB IT Center, Munich, Germany (on site)
- Anton Link, SNSB IT Center, Munich, Germany
- Stefan Seifert, SNSB IT Center, Munich, Germany
- further participants in the Zoom online meeting
Agenda#
October, 9th 2023
- 10.00 EAT Welcome and greetings at ITCER
(Gerhard Rambold)
- 10.15 EAT Topic of the workshop, introduction of participants (Tonjock Rosemary Kinge and participants)
- 10.30 EAT Ethnomycology in Cameroon (Tonjock Rosemary Kinge; lecture, hybrid) (30 min)
- 11.00 EAT Ethnomycology in Kenya (Joyce Jefwa; lecture, hybrid) (30 min)
- 11.30 EAT Ethnomycology in Democratic Republic of Congo (Heritier Milenge Kamalebo; lecture, hybrid) (30 min)
- 12.00 EAT Ethnomycological research: A status report in West Africa in general and Benin in particular (Olyvia Fadeyi; lecture, hybrid) (30 min)
- 12.30 EAT Lunch Break
- 14.00 EAT The Historic and Ethnomycology of Egypt and Middle East Countries (Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem; lecture, hybrid) (30 min)
- 14.30 EAT Introduction to the EthnoMycAfrica database project, workflows and data pipelines as published by Kinge et al. 2023 (Gerhard Rambold, Tonjock Rosemary Kinge; lecture, hybrid) (40 min)
- 15.10 EAT Concepts for service integration and data publication via NFDI4Biodiversity and GBIF (Tanja Weibulat, Dagmar Triebel; lecture, hybrid) (20 min)
- 15.30 EAT Summarizing day 1
- 15.45 EAT End of day 1
- 18.30 EAT Dinner
October, 10th 2023
- 10.00 EAT Short excursion at the ITCER site (looking for fungi)
- 11.00 EAT Practical work in the EthnoMycAfrica database project using the HTML Questionnaire for EthnoMycAfrica Database, the DiversityDescriptions html editor
and the DiversityNaviKey Progressive Web App (participants on site)
- 12.30 EAT Lunch break
- 14.00 EAT Introduction to ITCER and location (lecture; hybrid) (Gerhard Rambold)
- 14.30 EAT Practical work in the EthnoMycAfrica database project using Diversity Workbench (DWB) tools: online demonstration (Tonjock Rosemary Kinge, Tanja Weibulat, hybrid)
- 15.00 EAT Discussion, results (to be presented on this website)
- 15.30 EAT End of day 2
- 18.30 EAT Dinner
References and Resources#
- Kinge, T., Jefwa, J., Houdanon, R., Kamalebo, H., Abdel-Azeem, A., Gryzenhout, M., Triebel, D., Weibulat, T., Rambold, G. 2023. Management and publication of scientific data on traditional mycological and lichenological knowledge in Africa. – The Lichenologist, 55(5), 169–179. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282923000294
- Carroll, S.R., Garba, I., Figueroa-Rodríguez, O.L., Holbrook, J., Lovett, R., Materechera, S., Parsons, M., Raseroka, K., Rodriguez-Lonebear, D., Rowe, R., Sara, R., Walker, J.D., Anderson, J. and Hudson, M., 2020. The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. Data Science Journal, 19(1), p.43. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-043
- Park, D.S., Feng, X., Akiyama, S. et al. 2023. The colonial legacy of herbaria. Nat Hum Behav 7, 1059–1068. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01616-7
- Knapp, S. The past is a foreign country. Nat Hum Behav 7, 1042–1043 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01622-9 (view on Park et al. 2023)
- Scholz, A.H., Freitag, J., Lyal, C.H.C. et al. Multilateral benefit-sharing from digital sequence information will support both science and biodiversity conservation. Nat Commun 13, 1086 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28594-0
- Further info under Forschungsdatenmanagement und -analyse mit DiversityDescriptions und DiversityNaviKey – 42. Diversity Workbench Workshop
DiversityNaviKey and DiversityDescriptions #
(fall back resources created for the ITCER Workshop in Kenya 2023)
The fall back resources have to be created because the biowikfarm platform with the DiversityWorkbench Wiki is currently often offline.