VODAN Africa Certifies 31 Data Stewards on FAIR Data Management
On November 23rd, 2022, VODAN Africa certified 30 Data Stewards on FAIR Data Management. According to Aliya Aktau, who is responsible for VODAN-Africa IT Architecture and Documentation, these data stewards have demonstrated competencies in the following areas:
- Linked data,
- Vocabulary creation,
- Selection and reuse,
- Creation of machine actionable templates,
- Build semantic data,
- Deployment of FAIR Data Point (FDP), and
- Publishing metadata in FDP.
These 30 Data Stewards were awarded in three different categories - FAIR Data Steward Level 1, FAIR Data Steward Level 2, and FAIR Data Steward Level 3.
Criteria for different categories of FAIR Data Certification
| Criteria | FAIR Data Steward Level 1 | FAIR Data Steward Level 2 | FAIR Data Steward Level 3 |
| Explain the principles of Linked Data | YES | YES | YES |
| Explain vocabulary selection criteria | YES | YES | YES |
| Explain principles for creating new vocabularies | YES | YES | YES |
| Create machine-actionable template using CEDAR based on the given form | YES | YES | YES |
| Assign/reuse vocabularies from Explain principles for creating new vocabulariesBioPortal | YES | YES | YES |
| Create new vocabularies using Excel Spreadsheets / SKOS for data elements | YES | YES | YES |
| Publish vocabularies into BioPortal | YES | YES | YES |
| Address any difficulties while creating vocabularies (from creating new vocabularies in Excel Spreadsheets to publishing into BioPortal) | YES | YES | YES |
| Build a semantic data model in which data is linked to each other based on the given elements using AllegroGraph /Ontop (subject-predicate-object) | YES | YES | |
| Deploy FAIR Data Point | YES | ||
| Publish metadata in FAIR Data Point | YES |
Data Stewards Certified on November 23rd, 2022
| FAIR Data Steward Level 1 (9) | FAIR Data Steward Level 2 (13) | FAIR Data Steward Level 3 (9) |
| Bashir Sarki Yayae | Balyejusa Gusite | Aliya Aktau |
| Liya Mamo | Yuma Erick | Mariam Basajja |
| Kibrom Teklay Gebru | Nasasira Jossy | Samson Yohannes Amare |
| Adamu Abubakar | Putu Purnama Jati | Getu Tadele Taye |
| Ezekiel Ogundepo | Tigist Habtamu | Tesfit Gebremeskel |
| William Nandwa | Umar Zakari Ramadan | Enerst Edozie |
| Seth Okeyo | Elijah Joseph | Nambobi Mutwalibi |
| Jamilu Yahaya Maipanuku | Meriem Ghardallou | Abdullahi Abubakar Kawu |
| Abubakar Albattu Adamu | Ephrem Biruk | Ruduan Plug |
| Rudorwashe Mandabva | ||
| Joseph Bishi | ||
| Sakinat Folorunsho | ||
| Susan Aloyo |
