International ALA Workshop

Description

The International ALA Workshop will be held in Madrid (Spain) the 3-5 October 2016. This workshop brings together software developers from GBIF Nodes of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and Sweden to enhance the development of national data portals based on the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) a national project focused on making biodiversity information accessible and usable.
The Australian, French and Spanish Nodes will assist the other Nodes based on their previous experience.
The host for this course will be GBIF Spain (GBIF.ES) and the venue will be the Royal Botanical Garden (CSIC).

Here you can find the location of the venue, hotel, restaurants in the area, transports and other useful information:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1KGZBXrND2Y_B28imAL1ilG_a3jM

Programa

AGENDA

3 October 2016 - morning session

09:00 - 10:00	Introductions (Cristina and all participants)	Welcome. Introductions by organizers, instructors and participants (what do you expect to get out of the workshop). Review of the agenda. Practical information (coffee and lunch breaks, internet access, resources, etc.).
10:00 - 10:30	Previous meetings (Dave)	Background information: from the first ALA workshop in Costa Rica till now.
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00	(all of us)	The current situation data portals (2 or 3 slides by project)
12:00 - 12:30	Architecture ALA Portal (Dave)	ALA Architecture review
12:30 - 13:00	Ansible

3 October 2016 - afternoon session

14:30 - 15:00	Documentation (Fabien)	ALA GitHub EncounterBay Documentation CoopBioPlat project
15:00 - 15:30	Grails (Dave)	Quick overview architecture of grails.
15:30 - 16:00	Biocache-Hub (Santiago)	How to config? Customizations
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Biocache-Hub	Practical session

4 October 2016 - morning session

09:00 - 10:30	Collectory-hub	How to config? List options in config.groovy Manage data: indexing process with biocache, customizations. Adding a lot of data. How about updated data on a specific IPT? Provider Codes and Maps. Customizations (functionalities ways).
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30	Images (Dave)	How to manage the images in Data Portal? Image module. Image from external servers
11:30 - 12:30	Taxonomy (Santiago)	Working with our Taxonomy. Adding, configured, linked… Manage data: indexing process with biocache, customizations. Vernacular names. Working with different taxonomies, is it possible? Possible to use empty taxonomy, so no taxonomic matching will be done? How to create our own Name-matching. National checklist. Taxonomy Backbone / Is it possible to include this taxonomy in the Data Portal? (Dave)
12:30 - 13:00	Security (all of us)	What possibilities we have to implement a good level of security in our Data Portal. E.g: France (apache conf), Spain (apache conf), Australia (cas service),... Basic security ALA options: Spain / France Collectory manage. MySQL Solr Know basic issues?

4 October 2016 - afternoon session

14:30 - 16:00	Internationalitazition (Santiago)	About the ALA Portal User Interface Step-by-step guide UI translation Language configuration Multi-lingual support
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30	How to customize their own modules (Marie)	How to compile and run for testing your changes. Styling the application (Skinning of modules).

14:30 - 16:00

Internationalitazition
(Santiago)

About the ALA Portal User Interface
Step-by-step guide UI translation
Language configuration
Multi-lingual support

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30

How to customize their own modules
(Marie)

How to compile and run for testing your changes.

Styling the application (Skinning of modules).

5 October 2016 - morning session

9:00 - 10:00	Spatial Module (Dave)	Next step. Is it possible to install it on a local machine? Install geoserver?
10:00 - 10:30	ALA4R (Dave)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30	Upgrades (Dave)	Road map: Cassandra, solr.
11:30 - 12:00	ALA Future (Dave)	What are the upcoming developments? How ALA see the future?
12:00 - 12:30	EGI initiative (Rui)
12:30 - 13:00	Collaborative job	Helping to other nodes/countries to adapt ALA Portal.

5 October 2016 - afternoon session

14:30 - 16:00	Resolving Issues / general doubts (All of us)
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	Conclusions

October 6 and 7, 2016

This advance part will be just for members of the CoopBioPlat project: //www.gbif.es/CoopBioPlat_in.php. The purpose of this two days meeting will be to review the state of each national data portal based on ALA and move forward on the developments of Species and Geospatial modules.