Webinar: Challenges of managing qualitative data: Stories from the trenches

Recording

Date: 20 April 2021

Content: CGIAR’s Information and Data Management Community of Practice has been a global resource to help effect best practices in data management. One of the challenges we face relates to managing qualitative data (audio, images, videos as well as surveys containing sensitive and personally identifiable data) with regard for openness and FAIRness. There are also questions on how to capture, store and share such data responsibly. In that context, we invited researchers managing qualitative data to hear from their experience and to open the discussion on this topic at the CGIAR level.

Speakers:

- Olatunbosun Obileye - Institutional Data Manager at IITA.

- Gundula Fisher- Social scientist and gender expert at IITA.

- Florio Arguillas - Research Associate at the Cornell Center for the Social Sciences.

- Nilam Prasai - Senior data curator at IFPRI.

- Indira Yerramareddy - Manager of Knowledge Management and Web at IFPRI.

Webinar: Collaboration with the FAO on AGROVOC: The CGIAR exemplar

Recording

Date: 16 June 2021

Content: Presentation of the collaboration between AGROVOC and the CGIAR. The AGROVOC team will discuss the AGROVOC controlled vocabulary, its evolution and new developments. The team will also present AGRIS, and how CGIAR participates in this effort. CGIAR has been using and contributing to AGROVOC in different ways for some years. This webinar will highlight current and future collaboration.

Speakers:

- Imma Subirats - FAO

- Kristin Kolshus - FAO

- Ilkay Holt, AGRIS curator - FAO

- Fabrizio Celli, Software Engineer, AGRIS - FAO

Webinar: OpenSAFELY

Recording

Date: 7 December 2021

Content: In this webinar, a video of Ben Goldacre presenting an overview of OpenSAFELY is broadcasted. Then, Jon Massey and Jawoo Koo talk about the challenges in the agricultural domain that could be solved by an OpenSAFELY approach. Finally, Pythagoras Karampiperis discuss how CG Labs can offer a similar capacity, allowing data with PII to yield desired insights through analysis without sharing farmers’ information.

In the agricultural domain, household surveys and on-farm questionnaires are widely used to collect data for research. One of the challenges we face is in managing farmers' personal information. The medical sector has found a solution with OpenSAFELY to analyse health data without compromising patient anonymity, and there may be potential to learn from this approach for the agricultural context.

OpenSAFELY is a secure, transparent, open-source software platform for analysis of electronic health records data. All platform activity is publicly logged. All code for data management and analysis is shared under open licenses by default for scientific review and efficient reuse. OpenSAFELY can be deployed to create a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) alongside appropriate database, compute, governance, and administrative elements; or it can be deployed as a privacy-enhancing layer on any existing secure database or TRE. OpenSAFELY is currently deployed within the secure data centres of the two largest electronic health record providers in the NHS to support urgent research into the COVID-19 emergency.

Speakers:

• Ben Goldacre - Joint Principal Investigator of OpenSAFELY

• Jon Massey - Data Scientist at University of Oxford, OpenSAFELY team member

• Jawoo Koo - Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI

• Pythagoras Karampiperis - Chief Executive Officer of SCiO

• Medha Devare - Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI

FAO

Webinar: All About GARDIAN

Recording

Date: 15 December 2021

Content: In this webinar, GARDIAN, the Global Agricultural Research Data Innovation & Acceleration Network is presented. GARDIAN supports the exploration and visual querying of data; responsible data management towards open and FAIR outcomes, and secure data exchange and collaboration on code development and data analysis. During this webinar Medha Devare describes the different tools available in GARDIAN and present the latest updates.

Speaker: Medha Devare - Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI

FAO