Description:
This project is part of the GBIF's Mentoring Programme for 2013. Successful nodes need to sustain a wide arrange activities. Mastering all of them is in practice impossible, requiring a level of funding unattainable in most cases. The node partners involved (France, Portugal and Spain) have identified complementary weaknesses and strengths. This mentoring aim to enhance capacities and impact of the involved nodes by leveraging on their capacities.
The areas identified are:
- Data visualization
- Crowdsourcing
- Training & e-learning
- Data quality tools and procedures
- Persistent Identifiers
- Data paper procedures
The nodes involved have well-built linkages with their own overseas language communities, which involve key countries in terms of biodiversity richness and related challenges; These nodes also have a strong tradition of scientific cooperation with these countries in and outside GBIF (e.g. SEP-CEPDEC, I3B, etc.). The potential involved in enhancing these specific aspects of the partner nodes for the GBIF network at large is, at least, significant.
Programa
Day 1. Data quality
Block 1
- Welcome. Visit GBIF.ES premises
- General presentation on GBIF Spain [Cristina Villaverde] + informal discussion
- Data quality in GBIF Spain (ICA) [Francisco Pando]
Block 2
- Data quality workflow & tools, overview [Katia Cezón]
- DarwinTest [Katia Cezón]
Presentation
Practical exercises
Block 3
- Data publication tracking; the gbif.es web (intranet) restricted area”, AKA “internos” [Santiago Martínez]
Day 2. E-Learning
Block 4
- Introduction of e-learning in GBIF.ES [Francisco Pando]
- Overview on elearning at GBIF.ES + informal discussion [Katia Cezón]
- Introduction to the platforms [Katia Cezón]
- ATutor
- AContent
Block 5
- How a e-Learning course looks like; differences with face-to-face courses [Katia Cezón]
- How e-Learning course are built [Katia Cezón]
Block 6
- Building your own course. Practical exercises [All]
Block 7
Future plans
- Maintaining the “Biodiversity data quality hub” [Cristina Villaverde] http://community.gbif.org/pg/pages/view/39742/
- Online repository of DwC validations [All]
- Online validation tools
Discussion
Block 8. Internationalization and localization
Tools for dealing with localisations problems or challenges: [Rui Figueira]
- in data quality, deal with L10N problems, different character sets, special characters
- in elearning platforms, how to reuse materials in other languages.
Day 3. Persistent identifiers
Block 9
- Review of state of the art; discussion about permanent identifiers (plans, ideas) [All]
Block 10
- Wrap-up and next steps
Attached Documents
Introduction: about GBIF Spain - Cristina Villaverde (pptx. file; 4.3 Mb) Data quality in GBIF Spain - Francisco Pando (.pptx file; 3 Mb) Data quality workflow and tools, overview - Katia Cezón (.pptx file; 2.4 Mb) Exercises with Darwin Test - Katia Cezón (.pdf; 125 Kb) Metages Database System of GBIF-ES - Santiago Martínez de la Riva (.pptx file; 3.3 Mb) E-learning in GBIF Spain - Francisco Pando (.docx; 300 Kb) Report on Biodiversity e-Learning Platforms (.pdf; 700 Kb) Internationalization / localization - Rui Figueira (.ppt file; 700 Kb) Action points (.pdf file; 300Kb)
