Data management training completed in Kenya

Date: December 14, 2023    Author: Thaïsa van der Woude (ISRIC)

From 11-14, December, members of Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), the Kenya Department of Remote Sensing and Resource Surveys, the Kenya Forest Service and the Kenya Met Department came together at a data management training led by ISRIC - World Soil Information as part of the Land Soil Crop Hubs (LSC Hubs) project.

NAIROBI, KENYA: From 11-14, December, members of the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), the Kenya Department of Remote Sensing and Resource Surveys, the Kenya Forest Service and the Kenya Met Department came together at a data management training led by ISRIC - World Soil Information as part of the Land Soil Crop Hubs (LSC Hubs) project.

The purpose of the training included:

• understanding FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) data principles
• the benefit of relevant and standardised metadata
• tools to create, import, convert, and validate metadata
• and to set up automated workflows for data management.

The workshop is relevant to operators of spatial data infrastructures, data scientists and data custodians. 13 staff from the Kenyan institutions attended the training workshop lead by ISRIC staff Paul van Genuchten and Thaisa van der Woude.

Capacity training is part of the LSC Hubs project to develop the capacity of staff of the hub hosts in the routine operations, maintenance and facilitation of use of the LSC Hub. In Kenya, the hub host will be KALRO.