International Summer School Data FAIRness

Ytb7016Ijs20International Summer School Data FAIRnessThe LifeWatch eCampus offers courses, short schools and lifelong learning products dedicated to universities, post-doc and early-career researchers. In recent years, one of the major challenges in the Environmental and Earth Science has been managing and searching larger volumes of complex data, collected across multiple disciplines.  Many different standards, technologies and common practices have been developed to support each phase of the Data Lifecycle (Data Acquisition, Data Curation, Data Publishing, Data Processing and Data (Re)Use. The course will focus on the creation and reuse of  FAIR data and services in the Environmental and Earth sciences. It is built as a five-day summer school where leading scientists will address various topics from different perspectives. The course contains some educational multimedia resources . SOFHCa8sIf24ENVRIplus Scientific GameENVRIplus Game is an online game aimed at students from all schools in Europe. Through this game, they will be able to increase their knowledge of how to study the sciences of the world around us, and learn how to plan new research in the field of Ecology. Furthermore, they will be able to participate in the European final of the competition and interact with other students from other countries. _OhX8O6YwP25MEDCIS Scientific GameMEDCIS Scientific Gaming is an innovative effort to motivate students by replicating the excitement of scientific research applied to address a major ecological challenge in the Mediterranean Region, i.e. monitoring and protecting the health of the Mediterranean Sea. The MEDCIS Scientific Gaming is a participative and user-friendly tool of the MEDCIS project developed in the context of the need of a science-based knowledge to make fully operational an innovative European Directive focusing on the protection of the life in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as of all services that it is supplying since millennia to the socio-economic development of our communities: the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).  MEDCIS Scientific Gaming will allow your students to study and apply the method of scientific research applied to the monitoring of ecological and environmental status of Mediterranean marine ecosystems in a entertaining way through the use of a video game focused on ecological tools useful to describe the marine ecosystem status, such as biodiversity, water noise, eutrophication, alien species and on the approach of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. RcwrBMYavY26EcoLogicaCupThe olympic games of ecology for young people: the first national online ecology competition aimed at first and second grade secondary school students. DSEdW5uVa227Research GameEuropean Scientific Research Game for School's PlatformResearch Game is the European Scientific Research Game for School's Platform.   xBFS53Iesg28ECOPOTENTIAL 4SCHOOLSECOPOTENTIAL 4SCHOOLS Scientific Game You can test your skills in the field of Scientific Research with ECOPOTENTIAL4SCHOOLS, an online game addressed to students coming from all European Schools wABVJnQQy429Save the eelPieterjan Verhelst, a biotelemetry scientist and frequent user of the Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure developed a game “Save the eel”, to inform the general public about the obstacles eels face during their seaward migration.  Dive under water to help Angie the eel into the sea so she can go reproduce in the Sargasso Sea, an area ca. 7000 km west of Europe. As you play the game, you learn more about the eel and the obstacles they need to pass. Did you, for instance, know that eels migrate the 7000 km without feeding, relying on nothing but their fat reserves and even parts of their skeleton? The game is suitable for both young and old, students and not, and can be played in English or Dutch, both on desktop and mobile devices. It can also be embedded in websites via an iframe-embed. So if you would have interest to use the game (for instance for an event where a price can be given to the person with the daily high score), don’t hesitate to contact <a href="mailto::Pieterjan.Verhelst@UGent.be">Pieterjan Verhelst</a>. The game was developed together with <a href="https://www.scriptieprijs.be/over-ons">Scriptie vzw</a> and supported by <a href="https://www.ugent.be/en">Ghent University</a>, <a href="https://lifewatch.be/">LifeWatch Belgium</a>, the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (<a href="https://www.vlaanderen.be/inbo/en-gb/homepage/">INBO</a>), and the Flanders Marine Institute (<a href="http://www.vliz.be/en/">VLIZ</a>). The game was developed by <a href="https://slappyboard.com/">Slappy.inc</a>. ysWgLQvHIM30Discovering CastelporzianoPlaying with the game DISCOVERING CASTELPORZIANO you will deepen your understanding of the Presidential Estate of Castelporziano.  LwcEesuHqp32e-Science for NIS research workshop - Hands-on sessionTraining and running practical activities on workflows and VREs A practical session of the LifeWatch ERIC webinar which has allowed participants to put their hands on the LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue and LifeWatch ERIC Tesseract, developed for Internal Joint Initiative of LifeWatch ERIC. _XP8AwIG7z33LifeWatch ERIC Metadata CatalogueA first quick tutorial to guide users on the use of LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue (<a href="https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu" target="_blank">https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu</a>), a standard-based information management system based on GeoNetwork, designed and implemented to enable access to several resources from a variety of external providers through descriptive metadata, enhancing and promoting the information exchange and sharing among organisations and research infrastructures. pLIKuMkCz234ENVRI-FAIR International School 2021Services for FAIRnessThe LifeWatch eCampus offers courses, short schools and lifelong learning products dedicated to universities, post-doc and early-career researchers. The 2021 edition of the ENVRI Community International School has been organised by ENVRI-FAIR and LifeWatch ERIC.  The school is at its fourth edition, having established itself as an unmissable opportunity to learn about FAIRness in the framework of Research Infrastructures. Having gone into depth on data FAIRness and data management during previous editions, this year the school will focus on Services for FAIRness, from their design to their development and publication. The School is organised over a two-week period, on average dedicating around 50 hours in total (including preparations and self-study). It is structured around daily activities, with scheduled lectures and presentations in the mornings (09-13), followed by associated group and individual work time. SzXR8z8A4f35Castelporziano: Discovering NatureThe game provides a guide to exploring the distinctive ecosystems of Castelporziano, focusing on the characteristic aspects of the dune ecosystems, describing the plants and animals that populate them, and then reaching the wooded ecosystem and pastures of the estate, and investigating the animal and plant diversity of these places. The game is suitable for children aged six to ten.  Uf7ZXlvIoz36Ecology in CastelporzianoPlaying with Ecology in Castelporziano you you will explore the ecosystems and species that inhabit them, digging down into the factors that influence their distribution. With this game you will discover the biodiversity heritage of Castelporziano, and why it requires constant monitoring and conscientious conservation. This game is intended for students between 14 and 18 years of age.  OG30OCkYpG37Biodiversity in CastelporzianoPlaying with Biodiversity in Castelporziano you will be able to test your knowledge of the management and conservation of resources at the Presidential Estate of Castelporziano and understand the legislative measures that exist at the European level for the protection of ecosystems. Thanks to this game, you will learn about the habitats and species of high naturalistic value that populate the estate, including some endangered species.  inOJZb4_B138Functional Biogeography of Alien SpeciesThe analytical workflow on “Functional biogeography of alien species”  is conceived to address scientific questions on the ecological processes following the introduction of alien species. It evaluates and measures the impact of alien species on native communities by studying changes in functional traits (i.e. trophic position of the invader) and seek associations between those changes and environmental variables that could influence post-invasion shifts of the invader trophic positions. This workflow operates as an analytical pipeline using isotopic data of invasive species and their potential prey within the invaded food-webs. This tutorial shows how to run the workflow. bCwO_sZ_eJ39Autonomous Reef Monitoring StructuresThe workflow on “Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)” is conceived to produce data files that can then be used to indirectly answer a large spectrum of ecological questions related to the monitoring of hard bottom communities of near coast environments, e.g., highlighting changes and trends in community composition. This workflow operates as a data chaining pipeline that uses data collected by a network of ARMS placed in the vicinity of marine stations and Long-term Ecological Research sites (LTER) to produce community data files that can be subsequently analysed elsewhere (e.g., in R) to check whether species detected in the samples are alien to the location. The workflow was made in the context of Internal Joint Initiatives of LifeWatch ERIC. This tutorial shows how to run the workflow. ET6DKbr_cp40Phytoplankton: species and shapesPhytoplankton plays an important role in aquatic ecosystems as it accounts for most of global primary production and affects the biogeochemical processes, trophic dynamics and biodiversity architecture.   LifeWatch Italy, one of the ERIC's national nodes, designed the Phytoplankton Virtual Research Environment (Phyto VRE) to support researches on phytoplankton guilds and their relative structure, organization and ecological function. The Phyto VRE services, in fact, enable researchers to analyse and process phytoplankton data at a level of resolution from individual cells to whole guilds. In particular, the Atlas of Phytoplankton and the Atlas of Shapes provide harmonised data on taxonomy and morphological and demographic traits.   This tutorial illustrates how to access, navigate and use these two services of the LifeWatch Italy Phyto VRE.  BvejgbUDd041Partitioning and Mixed Models for Biodiversity Analysis in RThe LifeWatch eCampus offers courses, short schools and lifelong learning products dedicated to universities, post-doc and early-career researchers. The biodiversity of all individuals in a given meta-community may be split into the diversity within and between local communities. From a conservational point of view several questions arise. What is the importance of the biodiversity of a single local community with respect to the entire metacommunity? Which local communities contribute more to the biodiversity of the meta-community? Is it possible to maintain the biodiversity of the meta-community preserving only the most diverse local communities or should we care more about the conservation of ecosystem peculiarities? This study-lab training briefly introduces the R software and then focuses on biodiversity partitioning, describing methodology and software for γ, α and β diversity profiling. It then discusses the theory behind mixed effects modeling and how this can be applied to investigate the variation of biodiversity measures. The training concludes with a practical unit that examines the use of the R implementation of mixed effects modeling routines with data from ecological surveys.  Knowledge of α-, β- and γ-biodiversity; biodiversity and entropy; linear models; mixed effects models; basics of the R software is preferable, but not mandatory. 7-Ob9R37nU42Species Distribution Modelling (SDM): A GuideThe LifeWatch eCampus offers courses, short schools and lifelong learning products dedicated to universities, post-doc and early-career researchers. Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) is a technique widely used in many fields of natural and biological sciences to infer the ecological requirements of species and to predict their geographic distributions (Elith & Leathwick, 2009). Species distribution models can be used to support conservation decision making (Guisan et al., 2013). Forecasting endangered species distribution under climatic change scenario is increasingly used in conservation biology (Muñoz et al., 2013), while forecast the spread of invasive species is receiving a growing interest in invasion biology (Verbruggen et al., 2013). The aim of SDMs is to infer the probability of occurrence of a taxon given a set of variables (climate, elevation, soil type, etc.) that are assumed to be related to the distribution and habitat preferences of the taxon under study.  This resource is a technical guide aimed at providing the basic elements needed to build a Species Distribution Model. Specific knowledge of the topic is not mandatory. However, in order to have a correct understanding of the information contained in the training, and even more for a proper interpretation of the output, some basics of statistics (e.g., notions of modelling like GLM, GAM, etc.) and a sound knowledge of the statistic environment of R is recommended.  nOk68qgKsP43Spatially explicit metapopulation model - Incidence Function ModelThe LifeWatch eCampus offers courses, short schools and lifelong learning products dedicated to universities, post-doc and early-career researchers. The Incidence Function Model describes presence/absence of a species in the patches of a highly fragmented landscape at discrete time intervals (years) as the result of colonization and extinction processes. The IFM ignores local dynamics since they are faster than metapopulation dynamics in producing changes in the size of local populations (Hanski, 1994). In the IFM, the process of occupancy of patch is described by a first-order Markov chain with two states, {O, i} (empty and occupied, respectively). The extinction probability of a population in a patch is constant in time and is assumed to decrease with increasing patch area, and the colonization probability is assumed to be a sigmoidal function increasing with connectivity. The IFM is the best known spatially explicit metapopulation model in literature. This model has been applied to conservation problems and to area-wide pest-management. Sound knowledge of Probability and Statistics and basic elements of any programming language is recommended. uoO_T59Hsc44WoRMS Editors - Instructions TutorialsThe World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) aims at providing an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms, including information on synonymy. While the highest priority goes to valid names, other names in use are included so that this register can serve as a guide to interpret taxonomic literature. WoRMS combines information from Aphia with other authoritative marine species lists which are maintained by others (e.g. AlgaeBase, FishBase), the so-called 'externally hosted and managed species databases'. The course is addressed at the scientific community. Ogr7L5l4CT45Contributing datasets to EMODnet BiologyThe European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a network oforganisations that work together to observe the sea, process the data according to international standards and make that information freely available as interoperabledata layers and data products. EMODnet Biology aims to provide a single access point to European MarineBiodiversity Data and Products, by assembling individual datasets from various sources and processing them into interoperable data products for assessing the environmental state of ecosystems and sea basins. It is built upon the World Register of Marine Species and the European Ocean Biodiversity Information System. This training is offered by the Ocean Teacher eCampus.  0cppc0Lr8t46World Register of Marine Species (for editors only)The overall objective of this tutorial is to familiarize Aphia/WoRMS editors with the functionalities of the online editing platform, and the guidelines on how to enter specific information into the database. Aphia/WoRMS editors will gain (a better) understanding of WoRMS and the Aphia platform and will be able to add and adjust taxa, attributes, distributions, etc through the online editing interface of the WoRMS website.  2lOtMmgSkh47LifeWatch Belgium E-Lab: Quality control of biodiversity datasetsUse Case 4This tutorial demonstrates how to upload an entire data set in order to perform a series of quality control steps on your data. The course is addressed at the scientific community. xv50iQm8MO48LifeWatch Belgium E-Lab : List of geographical areas per marine speciesUse Case 3This tutorial demonstrates how to upload a list of marine species names in order to know in which Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) these species have already been observed (based on OBIS).  It combines three web services in a fixed order: 1. Taxon match, 2. Number of observations of a marine taxon, and 3. Exclusive Economic Zones.  m9UYf5Mij-49LifeWatch Belgium E-Lab: Marine species list and number of observations per geographical area Use Case 2This tutorial demonstrates how to upload a list with marine place names (e.g. name of an EEZ, Ocean) in order to know which species have already been observed in these areas, and how many times (based on OBIS). It combines two web services in a fixed order: 1. Get lat-lon by accepted name and 2. Taxon list of a certain region.  GtvKZ2FgUL50LifeWatch Belgium E-Lab: Marine species observations in a 1000m radius around your own observation pointUse Case 1This tutorial demonstrates how to upload a list with your own marine species observations in order to know how many times these species were already observed in a 1000m radius around your observation points (based on OBIS).  It combines two web services in a fixed order: 1. Taxon match and 2. Number of observations in a 1000m radius around a point.   QXRU79bz6t51LifeWatch Belgium E-Lab: User GuideLifeWatch ERIC builds and operates open e-science infrastructure that can support biodiversity and ecosystem research. The developed e-services facilitate open data exchange, visualization and analysis and are provided to the user through dedicated Virtual Laboratories and applications. The Belgian LifeWatch E-lab, developed by LifeWatch Belgium, is one of these virtual laboratories. This online application allows users to standardize, analyze and visualize their data, making use of web services built on top of internal and external reference databases. A user can select several data services (taxonomic, geographic, thematic, etc.) and run them successively through a straightforward user interface. The LifeWatch.be web services can be used in a concatenated way, where the output of one web service is the input for the next web service. Establishing such workflows helps solving (complicated) biological questions. This user guide tutorial explains the use of the LifeWatch web services.  c978HtG_xs52WoRMS Taxon Match ToolThe WoRMS Taxon Match Tool enables you to automatically match your species list or taxon list with WoRMS. After matching, the tool will return your file with the AphiaID's, valid names, authorities, WoRMS classification and/or any other output you selected. For performance reasons, the limit for the tool is set to 1,500 rows. If you want to match larger, non-marine or multiple datasources, you can use the LifeWatch E-Lab and watch this tutorial to learn how to run it. nsGg2uejBM57I-Adopt Framework WebinarThe RDA I-ADOPT framework offers a way to compile clear and unambiguous definitions of variables in a standardised way. It helps you to describe concepts at different levels, ranging from overarching classes (“soil composition”) down to the very detailed (“soil water content, measured in a mineral soil matrix below root depth”).  During the practical session of this webinar, you can create and register your own definitions, or reuse those of others, and once in place use them to tag your RI’s datasets.The formalized descriptions empower FAIR in many ways, for example by facilitating searches across data portals (F+A) and enabling machine-driven interpretation and use of data and metadata (I+R). _Nc4RJ0fn359Webinars on Designing and Developing Data Services for End UsersTwo webinars on “Designing and Developing Data Services for End Users” organized in preparation for the ENVRI Community International Summer School 2022 "Road to a FAIR ENVRI-Hub: Designing and Developing Data Services for End Users”. The webinars, aimed at IT architects, Research Infrastructure (RI) service developers and user support staff, and RI staff working on user interaction and community/network building, can also be taken as stand-alone sessions. fyXbbVAO5v60ENVRI Community International Winter School on data FAIRnessThe LifeWatch eCampus offers courses, short schools and lifelong learning products dedicated to universities, post-doc and early-career researchers. The 2021 ENVRI Community International Winter School from January 11-22 attracted 32 participants from all around the world, predominantly data centre staff, researchers and PhD candidates. Centred on the FAIR principles of data management, the online curriculum covered semantic navigation, Jupyter environments for visualisation and data discovery, resource access tools and cloud computing. In recognition of the difficulties of distance learning, the organisers structured 40 hours of presence (including preparations) over a two-week period, with scheduled lectures and presentations in the mornings (09-11), followed by associated group and individual work time (11-12). The relevance of the content to the participants' work ensured a high level of commitment and a great sense of camaraderie developed.  FAIR data are data which meet the principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability. The presentation of real-life use cases using state-of-the-art technologies demonstrated how essential it is to support end users in making the best use of the data, and to develop good user interfaces and services. The time the participants spent together created a new knowledge-exchange network for these data professionals. The team of teachers behind the "ENVRI-FAIR Resources: Access & Discoverability" Winter School was also international, with up-to-the-minute experience in the application of new technologies to enhance data centre functionality. Dr Antonio José Saenz-Albanes (ICT Infrastructure Operations Coordinator at LifeWatch ERIC) and Dr Jos√© Maria Garcia-Rodriguez (Associate Professor of Applied Software Engineering at the University of Seville) dealt with how semantics enrich data resources and increase their FINDability by making them machine-actionable; Dr Ute Karstens and Dr Claudio Onofrio, respectively researcher and data scientist at Lund University, Sweden, gave a presentation on a fully integrated VRE application at ICOS Carbon Portal, called the atmospheric transport model STILT, running through a full life cycle for an 'on demand' model and visualising results as an interactive map; Dr Karolina Pantazatou and Ida Storm also work at ICOS Carbon Portal, Lund University, as scientific programmer and project assistant. Their workshop on using GIS-tools and Python-programming and user friendly Jupyter notebooks that process and analyse ICOS data products, had students tweeting in delight: "What a great workspace to document (text, images, links), write code & visualize data - all open and shareable!"; Informatic engineers with the LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre in Lecce, Italy, Nicola Fiore and Lucia Vaira kicked off the second week with a presentation on the LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue, explaining the entire process behind the creation and publication of new resources and how to access them; and Dr Zhiming Zhao, assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, used examples from the ENVRIplus and ENVRI-FAIR projects to illustrate how to develop and operate data management services in cloud environments, from running a legacy and native cloud applications, to automating their deployment. Students were able to practice on the cloud infrastructures at EOSC and LifeWatch. The final presentations allowed participants to demonstrate just how much they had learned in professional terms, but there was no sad good-bye at the end. Students had been given the recipe for pasticciotti, the characteristic Lecce pastry, the week before, and everyone cheered as the winner of the ENVRI Chef Challenge was announced. -B0HD2ohqz61ENVRI Community Summer School 2022: Road to a FAIR ENVRI-Hub: Designing and Developing Data Services for End UsersENVRI Community Summer School 2022The LifeWatch eCampus offers courses, short schools and lifelong learning products dedicated to universities, post-doc and early-career researchers. The Summer School, now at its fifth edition, is organised by ENVRI-FAIR and LifeWatch ERIC and will take place in Lecce, Italy, from 10–15 July. It covers topics such as user interfaces, packaging of services, reusability and validation of services, and building and supporting networks through the lens of the ENVRI-Hub approach. 4ud4Su-p4BFrom Concept to Execution: Business Model FundamentalsThe Black Sea Accelerator (BSA), facilitated by the DOORS and BRIDGE-BS projects, is a programme tailored to support business creation, marine and maritime innovation, and development of new marine-based technologies for sustainable growth. This workshop offers a first introduction to Business modeling and allows exchanges on the proposed tools to be considered for fine-tuning your business model, including Q&As and some practical exercise. xR2B7lQquMStrategic Insights: Mastering Business Planning EssentialsThe Black Sea Accelerator (BSA), facilitated by the DOORS and BRIDGE-BS projects, is a programme tailored to support business creation, marine and maritime innovation, and development of new marine-based technologies for sustainable growth. This webinar introduces you to strategic business planning essentials, including conducting a SWOT analysis to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to your business. QTgPISYxt4The Power of the Pitch: Strategies for Effective CommunicationThe Black Sea Accelerator (BSA), facilitated by the DOORS and BRIDGE-BS projects, is a programme tailored to support business creation, marine and maritime innovation, and development of new marine-based technologies for sustainable growth. This workshop introduces you to the fundamentals of pitching. During the pracitcal exercise, participants were guided on how to craft a compelling elevator pitch and handle questions and feedback from investors.