Data for Research Award
The Data for Research Award is for an outstanding contribution to science, engineering and technology (SET) and innovation by an individual or a team by advancing the availability, management and re-use of research data. The NSTF under the guidance of a team of experts through the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA) and the Network of Data and Information Curation Communities (NeDICC) continues this category introduced in 2017. The award is meant to acknowledge the work of an individual or a team (including for example researchers/scientists; data scientists; data stewards; innovators; and repository and data centre managers) to be rewarded for the generation, preservation, sharing and/or re-use of a valuable scientific output – the research dataset. Data products, data repositories and data centres are also eligible for team recognition. The intention is to recognise the value of a data set that is of national interest or for the public good, and that is openly available to be re-used and/or re-packaged in products that are of public good and interest, or that could be integrated into products that contribute to the development of South Africa (SA).
The motivation is set out to obtain detailed responses in respect of any of:
For primary data collection
For secondary re-use of data
For the management of data repositories and data centres
NSTF-South32 Awards
SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
The NSTF supports the principle of collaborative, widely-inclusive awards and welcomes collaboration with members and other organisations interested, such as the following:
S.E.T. for socio-economic growth
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