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New year, new month, new beginnings. Welcome to the month of February! May you all experience a little/or a lot of love, joy and growth during this short and sweet month of the year. January started off with a bang and we were involved with various workshops/hosted a conference and planned for the strategic highway of SADiLaR. And although are not all based in Potchefstroom anymore, most of us had an experience of the hurricane Eloise – some more intense than others! It was a rainy/stormy couple of days. The sun is making his appearance every now and then and I must say that its presence is highly appreciated by many of us. February also seems like a fresh start for SADiLaR as a hub. The strategic plan of the hub for 2021 – 2023 was held over two days and the presentations as well as inputs from all of the colleagues will ensure that SADiLaR as a hub will move forward in one direction and with clear aims. May 2021be full of new innovative ideas for collaboration, commercialisation and communication. Have a blessed month... Kindest regards Liané |
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PROF LANGA KHUMALO CHAIRPERSON OF USAF COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE: TEACHING AND LEARNING OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES |
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Huge congratulations to Prof Langa Khumalo who has been appointed as the chairperson of the USAf Community of practice: Teaching and Learning of African Languages (CoPAL). His term of Office is from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022. This is an important development as it links very well with the mandate of SADiLaR, which is: To stimulate and enable digital research and development in South Africa’s 11 official languages, to cultivate and grow the DH scholarship in South Africa and the continent, while creating strategic synergies with local and international partners with similar or complementary infrastructure. The appointment will afford the SADiLaR Director to provide access to some digital language resources to the professoriate, researchers and language experts responsible for research, teaching and learning of African languages in the country, who make up this community of practice drawn from all the 26 public university institutions in the country. |
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XR COLOMBIA & NETHERLANDS CONFERENCE 2020 |
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Prof Menno van Zaanen was part of a very futuristic virtual conference that took place in November 2020. The XR colombia & Netherlands Conference 2020 was the 1st International Conference on Immersive Technology (Virtual reality, augmented, virtual, mixed reality, and AI). Have a look at the website: https://www.xrcol.nl/ and also a look at Prof Menno’s presentations. He also received a certificate of recognition for sharing valuable knowledge at the conference. Congratulations and thank you for representing SADiLaR internationally! |
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GLOBAL WORDNET CONFERENCE |
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SADiLaR was the proud host of the 2021 virtual conference. From SADiLaR side Juan Steyn and Liané van den Bergh served on the organising committee. The conference took place from 18 – 21 January and although the conference was a great success there is always room for improvement and lessons learned during the process. | | |
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CODATA-RDA SCHOOL OF RESEARCH AND DATA SCIENCE |
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The CODATA-RDA School of Research and Data Science Online & Self-paced: 03 May – 09 July 2021 Contemporary research – particularly when addressing the most significant, inter-disciplinary research challenges – cannot effectively be done without a range of skills relating to data. The CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science initiative has developed a short course curriculum, presented in summer school style, that addresses these training requirements. [To read more: https://www.datascienceschools.org ] The material covered by the programme is fundamental to all areas of research, and thus open to researchers and professionals from all disciplines that deal with significant amounts of research data. The goal is to provide a practical introduction to these topics with some theory and extensive hands-on training. | | |
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SADiLaR is involved with the Tuvute Pamoja project. The aim of the project is to create a corpus of short stories in African Languages through an online competition. Have a look at the website as well as the submission count for each language at: https://tuvutepamoja.africa/submissionstatistics.php | | |
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Join in the next DH colloquium hosted by SADiLaR. This session will take place on 17 February 2021 at 10:00 AM (SAST). The speaker for the colloquium is Rachel Hendery. To register click on the link below. | | |
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SAPRIN and SADiLaR, both South African National Research Infrastructures, are aiming to foster collaboration. To identify potential areas of collaboration, a mini-symposium will be organised to provide more information on the work done at both research infrastructures. This call requests people interested in illustrating the work performed at their research infrastructure to submit a short topic focus for presentation at a half-day seminar. Selected topics (to ensure a balanced programme) will be the starting point of the seminar, followed by discussions around these themes to identify practical further steps in collaboration.
People interested in presenting their research, on such a level to encourage collaboration, are requested to submit a topic focus described in two sentences (i.e., high level). This topic focus can be emailed to menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za and mark.collinson@mrc.ac.za
Presentations will take place online and are expected to take ten minutes each, with five minutes for questions.
The symposium will be held on 15 April 2021 in the morning.
Preliminary program
1. Introductory presentations by SADiLaR and SAPRIN Directors.
2. Two to three SAPRIN presentations.
3. Two to three SADiLaR presentations.
4. Round table discussions on priority areas for collaboration and next steps.
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Happy Valentine's Day May you all have a happy Valentine's Day...share the love! |
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