France-Portugal-Spain GBIF Mentoring project

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