CIAT Open Data Sprint 2019

Goal:

Have 50 new, quality assured and properly annotated datasets published by CIAT in approved FAIR repositories in 2019.

Duration:

The data sprint will run until November 15, 2019

Eligibility:

• All datasets published by CIAT staff during the period of 1^st January 2019 to 15^th November 2019 will be eligible
• The datasets need to be quality checked, include complete metadata and well-defined variables annotated with ontologies where possible.

Competition Rules:

• The CIAT data team will award one dataset competition point to authors of every qualifying dataset submitted to the CIAT Dataverse or other approved repositories. For datasets with multiple data authors, each author receives one point.
• Authors with datasets that have both the metadata and data variables annotated with appropriate ontology or vocabulary will receive an extra point.
• Authors of datasets that are part of a peer-reviewed data paper will also receive an extra point.
• In cases where individuals are affiliated to more than one research area or one region.  Both areas, or regions will be awarded one competition point during corporate tallying.

Prizes:

Top CIAT Authors – Datasets – 2019

Kindly contact the CIAT Data Management and Research Methods team on CIAT-DM@cgiar.org for further information or support.