Name: LIBSENSE-Connect 2023 - Nigeria
Start: 2023-11-06T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-11-08T17:30:00+01:00
Location: University of Lagos

LIBSENSE-Connect 2023 - Nigeria

from Monday, 6 November 2023 (09:00) to Wednesday, 8 November 2023 (17:30)

Monday, 6 November 2023
09:00 Welcome - Victor Odumuyiwa (NITDA IT Hub (NItHub), University of Lagos)
Welcome
- Victor Odumuyiwa (NITDA IT Hub (NItHub), University of Lagos)
09:00 - 09:05
Room: NITDA IT Hub
09:05 Introductions
Introductions
09:05 - 09:45
Room: NITDA IT Hub
09:45 LIBSENSE-Connect - Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
LIBSENSE-Connect
- Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
09:45 - 10:15
Room: NITDA IT Hub About the program, its aspirations and community participation opportunities
10:15 Overview of the workshop - Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Overview of the workshop
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
10:15 - 10:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
10:30 Presentation: Four Pillars of Open Science - Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Presentation: Four Pillars of Open Science
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub This presentation will introduce four "pillars" of open science: - open data - open source code - open access to papers - open peer review It will not discuss the reasons/policy/value of open science but will focus on how these four pillars are implemented.
11:00 Coffee Break and Networking
Coffee Break and Networking
11:00 - 11:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
11:30 Discussion: How can these four pillars be supported in Africa? - Paul Walk (Antleaf) Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
Discussion: How can these four pillars be supported in Africa?
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
- Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
11:30 - 13:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub This discussion includes the "clinic", where one (or more) of the participants will be invited to describe their project, raising any issue they would particularly like to focus on. They will have been primed to do this in the pre-workshop activities. We will try to ensure that this is relevant to the general topic of Workshop Day 1. The whole group will consider the issues raised and offer suggestions. This will be a discussion led by the workshop facilitators but with the encouragement of contribution from all participants.
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub

14:00 Recap
Recap
14:00 - 14:15
Room: NITDA IT Hub Summary of the morning's discussion
14:15 Presentation: Machine Interoperability - Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Presentation: Machine Interoperability
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
14:15 - 15:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub - Design for users, developers and machines - Machines are first-order users too! - Why (machine-readable) metadata matters
15:00 Coffee Break and Networking
Coffee Break and Networking
15:00 - 15:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
15:30 Exercise: FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIP) - Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Exercise: FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIP)
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
15:30 - 16:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub Group work on a particular service, domain or context
16:30 Summing up Day 1 - Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
Summing up Day 1
- Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
16:30 - 17:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub
Tuesday, 7 November 2023
09:00 Recap of day 1 - Paul Walk (COAR / Antleaf)
Recap of day 1
- Paul Walk (COAR / Antleaf)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
09:30 Presentation: Overview of important infrastructure services - Paul Walk (Antleaf) Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
Presentation: Overview of important infrastructure services
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
- Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
09:30 - 10:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub This will explain how some functions are more efficiently delivered as centralised, shared infrastructure and introduce some important types of infrastructure services.
10:30 Infrastructure Services Clinic - Paul Walk (Antleaf) Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
Infrastructure Services Clinic
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
- Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub This clinic will be dedicated to infrastructure services and participants will be invited to raise any issue they would particularly like to focus on.
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
11:30 Group Exercise: Hacking APIs - Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Group Exercise: Hacking APIs
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
11:30 - 13:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub Participants will form small groups and perform exercises on various APIs from infrastructure services.
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub
14:00 Summary of the morning's API hacking - Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Summary of the morning's API hacking
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
14:30 Presentation: Overview of significant repository software - Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Presentation: Overview of significant repository software
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub
15:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
15:30 AI for and from Open Repositories: Opportunities and Challenges - Petr Knoth (The Open University, UK)
AI for and from Open Repositories: Opportunities and Challenges
- Petr Knoth (The Open University, UK)
15:30 - 16:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub Recent advancements in AI, such as the availability of large language models (LLMs) and the ever-increasing amount of open access research papers, are creating new opportunities for improving how research is conducted, managed, organised, disseminated and used. This talk will first introduce CORE, a not-for-profit service that harvests openly available research papers from repositories, focusing on CORE’s ingestion pipeline and how papers in CORE can be accessed for machine processing. Petr will then talk about a range of scenarios in which his team has been applying AI models over this scholarly content, including question-answering systems utilising LLMs (CORE-GPT), rapid systematic reviews and citation intent classification for research assessment, reflecting on the opportunities to improve research workflows and challenges in using AI responsibly. In concluding the talk with examples of using machine learning to organise research knowledge in repositories and libraries, Petr will argue that AI in research should not only be seen as the future but also as the present. A Q&A will follow the presentation.
16:30 Summing up day 2 - Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Summing up day 2
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
16:30 - 17:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub
Wednesday, 8 November 2023
09:00 Recap of Day 2 - Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Recap of Day 2
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
09:30 Community Clinic - Omo Oaiya (WACREN) Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Community Clinic
- Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub
10:00 Summing up and feedback from participants - Paul Walk (Antleaf)
Summing up and feedback from participants
- Paul Walk (Antleaf)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
11:30 Next steps for the LIBSENSE-Connect programme - Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
Next steps for the LIBSENSE-Connect programme
- Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
11:30 - 12:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
13:30 Fostering Open Science Communities on Campus I - Victor Odumuyiwa (NITDA IT Hub (NItHub), University of Lagos) Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
Fostering Open Science Communities on Campus I
- Victor Odumuyiwa (NITDA IT Hub (NItHub), University of Lagos)
- Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub Library and research stakeholders will gather with the participants in the workshop from the University of Lagos to discuss working with LIBSENSE to launch an open science community on campus.
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: NITDA IT Hub
15:30 Fostering Open Science Communities on Campus II - Omo Oaiya (WACREN) Victor Odumuyiwa (NITDA IT Hub (NItHub), University of Lagos)
Fostering Open Science Communities on Campus II
- Omo Oaiya (WACREN)
- Victor Odumuyiwa (NITDA IT Hub (NItHub), University of Lagos)
15:30 - 17:00
Room: NITDA IT Hub