DWB Training with ITCER tools and data in Africa – 46. Diversity Workbench Workshop, at ITCER, Kenya
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arranged by NFDI4Biodiversity and SNSB IT Center (in presence: Ng’iya, Siaya County)
October 16th, 2024 DWB Training
The workshop on ITCER training materials and gaming approaches will bring together ITCER members, young scientists from Kenyan universities and school teachers, local government employees and nature conservation professionals from Siaya County with data scientists from SNSB IT Center to optimize the outreach character and educational impact of the e-training approaches realised by ITCER (see here).
The event will include aspects on how to support persons and projects working in renaturation approaches in Siaya County. In this sense it relies on results of the Seminar on enhancing renaturation in siaya county 2held at October 15th, 2024.
The new ITCER approaches with agile AI-supported software development will be explained. First ideas how the existing ITCER software tools for training and the training datasets might be integrated in the Diversity Workbench (DWB) software suite, respectively tools environment, and promoted via the NFDI4Biodiversity network will be discussed. The 1-day workshop is part of planned future research activities with organisations in Africa and Europe on biodiversity data mobilisation in tropical Africa.
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 the thematic focus renaturation in Siaya County, Kenya
- George Omondi (Siaya County Covernment)
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
Registration for Hybrid Session (Zoom)
- send email to Tanja Weibulat
- max. 15 persons
Invitees and participants#
- Paul Abuonji (Environmentalist, Kenya)
- Josphat Matasyoh (ITCER Kenya, Egerton University, Kenya)
- Erick Maunga (BSc, Environmental Sciences, Kenya)
- Brenda Moraa (Egerton University, Postdoc, Kenya)
- Josinter Njoga (Primary School Teacher, Kenya)
- Moses Nyawasa (Nature Kenya)
- Brian Ochieng (BSc, IT student, Kenya)
- Petre Omuands (Environmentalist, Kenya)
- Fred Onyango (BSc, IT student, Kenya)
- Oliver Ouma (BSc, Environmental Sciences, Kenya)
- Gerhard Rambold (ITCER Kenya)
- Stefan Seifert (remote) (SNSB IT Center, Germany)
- Dagmar Triebel (SNSB IT Center, Germany)
- Tanja Weibulat (SNSB IT Center, Germany)
- Markus Weiss (remote) (SNSB IT Center, Germany)
- Indar Wilson (Environmentalist, Kenya)
Agenda#
(East African Time)
- 09.00 EAT Arrival at ITCER (Participants)
- 10.00 EAT Welcome and introduction to ITCER
(Gerhard Rambold, Josphat Matasyoh)
- 10.15 EAT Introduction of SNSB as partner (Dagmar Triebel/ Tanja Weibulat)
- 10.30 EAT Introduction to Diversity Workbench as management system for large data collections (D. T./ T. W.)
- 10.45 EAT Concept of ITCER tool APIs and DWB Interface Consumers to process ITCER data suitable for Diversity Workbench modules (Stefan Seifert)
- 11.00 EAT ITCER e-training tools and data products (G. R.)
- 11.30 EAT Discussion
- 12.00 EAT Lunch Break
- 13.30 EAT Working with ITCER training materials and excercises (G. R.), laptops/ smartphones, in groups
- Scientific Ethics Gap-fill
- Exercises Diversity Gap-fill
- Exercises Macrobiome Memory Game
- Macrobiome Names-Species Matching Exercises
- Macrobiome Species-Names Matching Exercises
- Metabolite Classes Formulas Matching Exercises
- Amino Acids Formulas Matching Exercises
- 14.45 EAT Feedback, Discussion and How to proceed (All Participants)
- 16.00 EAT End of day
- 18.30 EAT Dinner
References#
ITCER Event Website: https://itcer.org/event/dwb-training-for-scientists-itcer-training-materials-and-gaming-approaches
ITCER (ed.) 2024 onwards. Training Materials. https://itcer.org/training-materials
