WRO documentation
The aim of this project is to:
Bring together expertly formatted datasets for standardized crop, hydrological and climate change modelling
Collate key datasets to enable big data analytics, machine learning etc.
Digitise historical research (pdf scraping, text mining)
Propose a protocol to archive water research data from current/future projects
Project reports
All WRC porject deliverabls are available on request (vanderlaanm@arc.agric.za)
Various WRO 'living' policy documents - available on request (vanderlaanm@arc.agric.za)
Important documents on big data and cloud platforms
Metadata resources
SANS 1878 (ISO 19115) Geospatial Metadata Standard
Dublin core, schema.org - generalised standards
Simple Darwin core - useful for detailing biodiversity
Data Document Initiative (DDI) - social science data
SANS 1877 Unique ID Standard
SANS 1876 (ISO 19110) SAGDaD (South African Geographical Data Dictionary)
SANS 1880 SAGDad feature content catalogue (compliant with ISO 19110) (80 Feature types, 29 Attributes per feature)
ISO 19156:2011 Geographic information — Observations and measurements
Geospatial Metadata (wikipedia)
Data archiving
Data publication in the SAEON uLwazi zone
The Dataverse Project repositories, such as the Harvard Dataverse Repository