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Research data management and services: Resources for different data practitioners
Get PDFThe emergence of data-driven research and demands for Research Data Management (RDM) has created interest in global academic institutions and research organisations. Some of the libraries, especially in developed countries, have started offering RDM services to their communities. Although lagging, some academic libraries in developing countries are planning or implementing the service. However, the level of RDM awareness is deficient among researchers, librarians and other data practitioners.
This paper aims to present available open resources for different data practitioners, particularly researchers and librarians. It includes training resources for researchers and librarians, Data Management Plan (DMP) tool for researchers, a data repository available for researchers to freely archive and share their research data to the local and international communities.
A case study with a survey was conducted at the University of Dodoma to identify relevant RDM services so that librarians could assist researchers in making their data accessible to the local and international community.
The study findings revealed a low level of RDM awareness among researchers and librarians. Over 50% of the respondent indicated their perceived knowledge as poor in the following RDM knowledge areas; DMP, data repository, long term digital preservation, funders RDM mandates, metadata standards describing data and general awareness of RDM. Therefore, this paper presents available open resources for different data practitioners to improve RDM knowledge and boost the confidence of academic and research libraries in establishing the service
State of agricultural e-government services to farmers in Tanzania: toward the participatory design of a Farmers Digital Information System (FDIS)
No full textJournal articleThe projected population increase and drastic climate changes are a great setback to food
security through sustainable agriculture. However, governments need to play key roles in supporting
the agriculture sector, which creates considerable employment and contributions to most countries’
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) outcomes. In many countries, the governments already support
the agriculture sector with services based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
to reach many stakeholders, including smallholder farmers. This paper investigated the status of
e-Government services in the agriculture sector for farmers in order to understand the functions
and scope of e-services, the challenges faced by farmers, both addressed and unaddressed, and
the challenges of ICT-based services for farmers and other stakeholders in Tanzania. We used a
qualitative research approach to interview the Ministry of Agriculture, farmers, extension workers,
and agriculture processing industries. The main finding reveals that e-government services play a
major role in the agriculture sector in Tanzania. Our results show that the pre-existing ICT services
identified for farmers cannot meet the needs of farmers in a complete farming cycle. Moreover, lack
of awareness, digital illiteracy, and poor infrastructure are the major challenges faced by farmers
and other stakeholders when it comes to ICT-based services. These results justify the need for a
comprehensive digital platform, particularly the proposed Farmers Digital Information System (FDIS)
to enable farmers and other stakeholders to access essential services in a complete farming cycle for a
more sustainable agriculture.Fondation Ernst et Lucie Schmidheiny, grant number 88, 2022;
Fonds Général, grant number 22_69; and the APC was funded by the University of Geneva
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Data management system for sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in Tanzania: research-in-progress
No full textJournal Article of Information Technology for Development, pp. 558-581Smallholder farmers produce about 70% of the world’s food and employ
more than one billion people. They therefore have an important role to
play in eradicating food insecurity and poverty among the world’s
growing population. Although there are different digital services for
smallholder farmers, the existing services lack sustainability in the
agriculture context and hardly meet their needs. Data management and
sharing among different agriculture stakeholders has the potential to
make agriculture sustainable, but there is a need to enable access to
digital services in an entire farming cycle under one roof. This paper
aims to propose the design of a comprehensive data management
digital framework to solve common challenges of smallholder farmers
in Tanzania and other countries’ agricultural systems. We follow the
design science research (DSR) method to develop an artifact that
interacts with the problem context. To illustrate the framework’s
applicability, we use different case studies in Tanzania
State of agricultural e-government services to farmers in Tanzania: toward the participatory design of a Farmers Digital Information System (FDIS)
No full textJournal articleThe projected population increase and drastic climate changes are a great setback to food
security through sustainable agriculture. However, governments need to play key roles in supporting
the agriculture sector, which creates considerable employment and contributions to most countries’
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) outcomes. In many countries, the governments already support
the agriculture sector with services based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
to reach many stakeholders, including smallholder farmers. This paper investigated the status of
e-Government services in the agriculture sector for farmers in order to understand the functions
and scope of e-services, the challenges faced by farmers, both addressed and unaddressed, and
the challenges of ICT-based services for farmers and other stakeholders in Tanzania. We used a
qualitative research approach to interview the Ministry of Agriculture, farmers, extension workers,
and agriculture processing industries. The main finding reveals that e-government services play a
major role in the agriculture sector in Tanzania. Our results show that the pre-existing ICT services
identified for farmers cannot meet the needs of farmers in a complete farming cycle. Moreover, lack
of awareness, digital illiteracy, and poor infrastructure are the major challenges faced by farmers
and other stakeholders when it comes to ICT-based services. These results justify the need for a
comprehensive digital platform, particularly the proposed Farmers Digital Information System (FDIS)
to enable farmers and other stakeholders to access essential services in a complete farming cycle for a
more sustainable agriculture.Fondation Ernst et Lucie Schmidheiny, grant number 88, 2022;
Fonds Général, grant number 22_69; and the APC was funded by the University of Geneva
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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