Knowledge & Resource Sharing Questionnaire Launch!

The Knowledge and Resource Sharing Questionnaire has been posted. It is being shared with NIMR Centres' data managers and data management ICT support staff to determine the data management unit capacity present at each NIMR Centre. This will help determine the best way to strengthen NIMR Centres' capacity through knowledge and resource sharing in the future. http://goo.gl/forms/3uqUysOZWT

Database Management Workshop Materials

Dear ALL Below kindly find the link to all the materials used during the training. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7n9ngvefstg7zj0/AADeEtfaY5gC7KYXw9RlsHqta Kind Regards

Azure Cloud SQL Accounts

Hello All, After extensive consultation with the Microsoft Team, it will take some time before NIMR gets cloud storage accounts due to the procedure involved. I would suggest we register one account and have multiple administrators from all the centres. Registration requires a credit/master card card. However you are given one month free trial, after which you only pay for what you consume. The windows azure cloud comes with various services, since NIMR will be mostly utilizing the SQL database service, the maximum it could per month is 150 USD. I would request Jonas and other Center's managers to have a discussion on this Thanks

NIMR-RTI Database Workshop

The RTI -NIMR Database Development Workshop held on 14 to 17, April 2014 was a success.  To all those who attended, we hope that you found some portions if not all of the interactive, practical overviews in the following areas useful:

.Refresher on Principles of Database Development 

.Review of SQL Server Programming

.Review of database hosting in the cloud

.Review of web application development utilizing

.Linking ASP MVC and SQL Server Online

We will be sharing relevant resources, some which were discussed during the workshop, on the Database Workshop page on this blog.  

The beginnings of a NIMR Unified Data Management Strategy (UDMS)

Hello everyone,

So our last blog post attempted to initiate some brainstorming around one of NIMR’s major action items to “establish a unified DM strategy as a long term goal”.  We asked you what some of the primary components of a DM strategy would be, based on lessons learned from the 2013 KSS.   Since then we have been working to develop the outline of a UDMS with support from some experts.

We are sharing the outline here to get some thoughts and feedback from you.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9xc2ue0O6vvMGxrUHl6Y3lWX1E/edit

Also if you have interest in helping draft this UDMS, please let us know.

Thanks!

A need to establish a unified DM strategy as a long term goal

Dear Data management fellows

I hope you are doing fine since we last communicated. It is now three months since our first KSS and I believe now we have a lot to start blogging

One of the major action and the way forward after the KSS was to “establish a unified DM strategy as a long term goal”

 What are the primary components of your data management strategy will be?

I think if we can start our conversation on this and come up with the draft document compiling the list of primary components of data management in our centres we can then look the possibilities to have a session during the AJSC next year to agree on the primary components for DM which will stand for our institution.


Aswile Jonas

Understanding of researchers about the importance of centralized data management system

Thank you to all for attending the first NIMR Mwanza Knowledge Sharing Seminar (KSS). 

It was great to have you as a data management unit representative for your centre.

One of the big challenges addressed during the seminar was about little understanding of researchers about the importance of centralized data management system. What are your opinions about the action to be taken on improving the situation in our Centres and within institution in general?