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Project Director Derek Johnson speaking at the DFM Cambodia Scoping Workshop, Phnom Penh 2020-03-03.

The Dried Fish Matters Knowledge Wiki is an open platform for the creation and sharing of knowledge about dried fish in South and South-East Asia. It is part of the research initiative "Dried Fish Matters: Mapping the social economy of dried fish in South and Southeast Asia for enhanced wellbeing and nutrition", funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

See the design specifications for the data management info hub outlined in the DFM project proposal and discussed in subsequent Working Group meetings. Information on contributing is provided at the bottom of this page.

Meetings and events

To add DFM events to your personal calendar application (e.g., Outlook), please import the following iCalendar file: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/dried.fish.matters%40umanitoba.ca/public/basic.ics. New DFM meetings and events will then show up automatically in your schedule.

The listing below is generated automatically from Google Calendar. To submit a new event, please send the details and/or a calendar invitation to dried.fish.matters@umanitoba.ca.

Video recordings of past DFM meetings and webinars are available on our YouTube playlist.

Conferences & workshops

• Small Fish Seminar (February 2021)
• MARE Conference 2021

DFM research units

Please see the lists of personnel, partner institutions, research questions, and key publications for each geographic Research Team on the DFM website.

Research teams (geographic)

• DFM Sri Lanka
• DFM Thailand
• DFM Bangladesh
• DFM Cambodia
• DFM Myanmar
• DFM Gujarat (India)
• DFM West Bengal (India)
• DFM Mizoram & Manipur (India)
• DFM Telangana (India)
• DFM Adhra Pradesh (India)
• DFM Karnataka (India)
• DFM Kerala (India)

Working groups

• Working Group 1: Social economy
• Working Group 2: Food and nutrition security
• Working Group 3: Policy, Governance, and Development
• DFM Student Group
• DFM India Working Group

Help and guidelines

The following documents provide guidance to DFM staff, students, and researchers who are investigating dried fish value chains or making use of DFM knowledge platforms.

Project reporting

• Partner year-end reporting guideline - Instructions and links to SSHRC reporting forms (Partner Contribution Statement and F300)
• Category:Reporting forms and templates - List of forms and templates for activity and financial reports

Theory

• Stacked value chains
• Social economy of value - Theory background paper (Working Group 1)

Research guidelines

• DFM Guideline: Scoping research
• DFM Guideline: Ethics handbook
• DFM Guideline: Ethics protocol checklist - list of elements that need to be included in a research protocol submitted for ERB review
• List of ethics protocol documents - (incomplete) list of documents approved by the Ethics Review Board at the University of Manitoba, including consent forms, questionnaires, survey guides, recruitment materials, and COVID protocols.
• DFM Guideline: Scoping report structure
• DFM Guideline: Visual research
• Hypotheses table

Technical help

• DFM Help: Zotero web library
• DFM Guideline: Zotero tags
• DFM Guideline: Copyediting checklist

Writing and publications

• All DFM reports and publications -- including newsletters and Working Papers -- are currently stored in the Dried Fish Matters Zotero user library. (Note this is a private library, distinct from the DFM group library that is accessible to everyone in the project.)
• A bibliography of project publications is generated automatically each day and uploaded to driedfishmatters.org/publications.html.
• Raw data from the project will be archived in the Dataverse repository at the University of Manitoba.
• Working papers, reference documents, etc. are available here on the wiki for internal discussion and, where appropriate, contributions from people outside the project. The wiki is accessible on the web but not "public" in the sense that it is not indexed by search engines.
• Our public-facing website (driedfishmatters.org) is managed by the DFM project team and includes summary information about the project, including newsletters, for a wide audience.

Contributing to the DFM Knowledge Wiki

Diagram illustrating the primary data management platforms and workflow in the Dried Fish Matters project.

This system operates on MediaWiki, the same software that powers Wikipedia and many other sites. To contribute, simply log in (or create an account) and click/tap on the "edit" tab at the top of any page. You will need to confirm the email address associated with your account before editing.

Anyone affiliated with the project is welcome to contribute to the wiki.

Structured (threaded) discussion is available through the "Discussion" link at the top of each page.

Please feel free to try things out by making text edits on the Sandbox page!