www.elixir-europe.org/excelerateELIXIR-EXCELERATE is funded by the European Commission within the Research Infrastructures programme of Horizon 2020, grant agreement number 676559.

TeSS/Training Coordinators meetingNiall Beard

1st Dec 2016

New URL

• https://tess.elixir-europe.org

iAnn switches to using TeSS as its source

What is iAnn?

Bioevents.pro

1. Curators fill in private form

2. Community fills in form on separate website

3. Community fills in form on TeSS

Now!

Get a calendar feed of relevant eventsStep 1. Select Filters

Step 2. Click subscribe

Get a calendar feed of relevant events

Step 3. Import into your favourite calendar app

Get a calendar feed of relevant events

New content providers

Curation

• Associating node to events/materials• Checking the content and accuracy of records• What features we can implement?

Associating with nodes• Claim the events/materials your

ELIXIR node has created• Manually or Automatically?

– Develop Louisa’s spreadsheet

Associating with nodes

• Can create widgets displaying all your nodes events that can be embedded in other sites

• Help the hub to advertise your events through newsletters and on their site.

• Will help populate the node pages of TeSS

Curation

• Automatically aggregated content – usually can trust the source– Any errors tend to be:

• Aggregators not running – information grows stale• Some fields missing• Content not showing up

• Form entered content – Minimal fields and some validation

• May need to correct

• Both – need topic classfication

Accounts

• Add your name to this list https://goo.gl/CQcUhs

• I will add your account as a curator• You can then

– Edit any resource– Edit your node page

• And access curation tools

New curation tools

Ideas

• Curators must approve of event or material submitted from the public

• Curators may approve – giving it a certified badge

• Get notifications when new ones are added from your country/institution

• Automated suggestions for topic classification – approved by curators