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

Block 2

Presentation
Practical exercises

Block 3

Day 2. E-Learning

Block 4

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

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