Dr Lucia Lotter
Dr Lucia Lotter is the Director of the HSRC's Digital Curation unit in the eResearch Knowledge Centre. She holds a PhD in Education and an MEd (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria. At the HSRC she participated in research projects with an educational focus before being joining the IT Directorate. In that capacity she presented training in quantitative and qualitative data analysis software and courses related to the processing of quantitative research data in a unit which she later managed. Following this, Dr Lotter became part of a team tasked to develop the HSRC's Research Information System. She later headed the Systems Development unit in the IT Directorate and in this capacity was responsible for business and system analysis for corporate database systems. She also developed numerous systems for the capturing of research data.
Her current focus is on establishing the technology and processes for the implementation of data curation throughout the organisation - addressing people, process and technology requirements for data preservation and dissemination within the context of a data producer, such as the HSRC.
Dr Lotter is actively involved in capacity building in the area of research data curation in South Africa and participates in the activities of the Network of Data and Information Curation Communities (NeDICC). NeDICC is a Community of Practice consisting of participants from all the major South African universities and Science Councils. She provides training on various data related topics and advices academic / research organisations to implement research data management support services.
Project on Developing an HSRC Indicator Dashboard project
There is a direct and urgent need to produce an HSRC Indicator Dashboard populated with HSRC produced survey data, as collated by Data Curation. This ....
Data curation for PHHSI
The purpose of the data curation project (MOU) is to formalise the collaboration between PHHSI and RMC with regard to the curation of three data sets ....
Datacuration for EPD
The purpose of the data curation project (MOU) is to formalise the collaboration between EPD and RMC with regard to the curation of three data sets as....
Data curation for HSD
The purpose of the data curation project (MOU) is to formalise the collaboration between HSD and RMC with regard to the curation of three data sets as....
Data curation for CeSTII
The purpose of the data curation project (MOU) is to formalise the collaboration between CeSTII and RMC with regard to the curation of two data sets a....
Data curation for ESD
The purpose of the data curation project (MOU) is to formalise the collaboration between ESD and RMC with regard to the curation of four data sets as ....
Data curation for DGSD
The purpose of the data curation project (MOU) is to formalise the collaboration between DGSD and RMC with regard to the curation of three data sets a....
Data curation for HAST
The purpose of the data curation project (MOU) is to formalise the collaboration between HAST and RMC with regard to the curation of three data sets a....