TeSS: ELIXIR Training PortalNiall Beard, Milo Thurston, Finn Bacall,

Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Teresa Attwood, Carole GobleEuBic Winter School

10th January 2017

ELIXIR Platforms

+ Use Cases

ELIXIR Training Platform

• ELIXIR seeks to fill training gaps left by transformative technologies in medicine and the life sciences

• Train the Trainers – Expand teaching capacity in Europe• Train the Researchers – Upskill professionals to use new

technologies• Train the Developers – Improve developer skills and promote

best practices for more robust, open software.• Accomplished through the development of (and content

creation for) an eLearning platform• Through face-to-face events

For more, see: http://www.elixir-europe.org/platforms/training

ELIXIR: A (very) distributed infrastructure for Life science information

Institutions and organization providing training materials, courses, and eLearning

+ many, many, many more

Training discovery platform v.0.1

Aka, Google it

Great discovery tool…

• Perfect if you know the specific name of the thing you’re looking for (e.g. ‘EuBIC Winter School’).

• Not so great if you just want to see what proteomics related events are available

Quick TeSS Overview

• Aggregation and registration of training events and materials

• Tools to filter, search, and discover• Users can organize into packages and training workflows• Interlinking with other ELIXIR registries • ELIXIR Node ‘shop window’ view• https://tess.elixir-europe.org

TeSS Materials index page

Subscribe to calendar feeds

Have them appear in your favourite calendar client

Training Workflows

• Graphical representation of Bioinformatics analyses.

• What are the things I need to learn to be able to perform an entire process?

• Give context to learning – pedagogically important – Not just what you need to know, but where it fits.

• EMBER course implemented in TeSS.

• Time to create content!!!

Registry integration

• Associate TeSS resources with bio.tools and Biosharing resources.

• Search for all training materials about a specific tool, standard operating procedure, database etc.

• Tool-centric search

Bioschemas• Developing schema.org

specifications to work for Life sciences

• Proposing amendments and new schemas to be able to describe Life science resources.

• Events and CreativeWork (materials). Also for tools, data, data repositories.

• Useful for aggregators to parse. Search engines will rank schema.org annotations higher

Image: http://bioschemas.org/

Other Features

• Full rest API - swaggerhub.com/api/njall/TeSS/1.0.0/• Training packages – Save materials and events to a package.

This could be shared as a curriculum, as a trainer portfolio, or just useful to bookmark.

• Node view – see what training activities each ELIXIR node is working on and find out who the training coordinators / trainers are.