ELIXIR Webinar: Introducing TeSS
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The document outlines the ELIXIR training portal, TESS, funded by the European Commission, focusing on training resource aggregation and discovery for life sciences. It highlights tools for filtering, searching, and interlinking with other ELIXIR registries, as well as user engagement statistics and upcoming enhancements. Additionally, it discusses the integration of schema.org for better data structuring in biosciences and plans for further development and collaboration.
ELIXIR Webinar: Introducing TeSS
- 1. 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: The ELIXIR Training Portal Niall Beard Carole Goble, Teresa Attwood, Susanna Assunta-Sansone Finn Bacall, Milo Thurston ELIXIR Webinar series 2pm GMT - 15th February 2017
- 2. ELIXIR Platforms + Use Cases
- 3. ELIXIR: A (very) distributed infrastructure for Life science information
- 4. Institutions and organization providing training materials, courses, and eLearning + many, many, many more
- 5. Training discovery platform v0.0.1 Aka, Google it
- 6. Great discovery tool… •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
- 7. The Long Tail of Training Resources Number of websites Volumeofmaterials Large institutions and repositories >30 training resources Significant online presence Favoured by search engines Smaller websites <30 training resources Often buried in search results
- 8. 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
- 9. TeSS Materials index page Filter By: Content Provider Scientific Topic Tool Standards Policies Target Audience Keyword Difficulty Level Author Contributor Licence ELIXIR Node Search for text and order results
- 10. Link to other resources (from ELIXIR registries and other)
- 11. Subscribe to calendar feeds
- 12. Embed in your sites using iAnn widget
- 13. Visual Workflows • Developing workflows to represent typical data analyses. • Attaching tools, training, and other resources to each stage.
- 14. Registry integration • Associate TeSS resources with bio.tools and Biosharing.org resources. • Search for all training materials about a specific tool, standard operating procedure, database etc. • Tool-centric search
- 15. Usage statistics •From 33 Content Providers • 244 Upcoming Events • 5900 Past Events • 569 Materials •1 completed workflow (EMBER) • Construction of 3 new workflows underway • Many existing workflows being converted to TeSS format soon •541 users in past month • 4,704 since analytics began Jan 2016 •Workshop feedback surveys have reported some attendees discovered the event through TeSS
- 16. TeSS summary •Primarily Aggregated + some registered Materials and Events • Search and Filter features to help discovery • Training workflows to help educate and navigate • Subscription services to consistently keep people updated • iAnn events widgets to expose in other websites • Integration with bio.tools and biosharing.org • ELIXIR node views to show what •Upcoming: • More curation tools community aided annotation, automated • Collaboration with BD2Ks training portal • More integrations with other information services •Datasets, Containers, VMs
- 17. Aggregation – Not a very API situation
- 18. Medium/Small sites - Manual entry
- 19. HTML scraper • Difficult to write. • - Every site is unique • - Some have more treacherous HTML • Very susceptible to change • - Fixing is re-implementing. • - Build up of technical debt http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server100/367cc/p <p>Mon, 27 Feb 2017, 12:00 –</p>
- 21. Metadata model ie. Recipe type
- 23. <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Recipe"> <div itemprop="nutrition” itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/NutritionInformation"> Nutrition facts: <span itemprop="calories">144 kcal</span>, </div> Ingredients: - <span itemprop="recipeIngredient">800g small new potato</span> - <span itemprop="recipeIngredient">3 shallot</span> . . .
- 24. <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": ”Recipe", "name": ”Potato Salad", “NutritionInformation”: { "calories”: “144 kcal”, "recipeIngredient”: “800g small new potato”, "recipeIngredient”: “3 shallot” . . .
- 26. Tools to parse
- 27. Tools to parse
- 28. Mark up using schema.org – Google Markup Helper
- 29. Mark up using schema.org –Google Markup Helper
- 30. TeSS can then parse the schema.org structured data
- 31. Other ways •By hand •By one of the many CMS extensions •Many online tools
- 32. What is 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 Image: http://bioschemas.org/
- 33. Minimum information Controlled vocabula Cardinality Data model New properties
- 35. Special thanks to TeSS and Bioschemas’ collaborators, our guinea pigs, and community TeSS Team Finn Bacall Milo Thurston Aleksandra Nenadic (past member) Susanna-Assunta Sansone Teresa Attwood Carole Goble Thanks to The ELIXIR Training Co-ordinators Rafael Jiminez Martin Cook Premysl Veselyk Gabriella Rustici Dominique Batista Christof De Bo Alex Botzki + Many more https://tess.elixir-europe.org and http://bioschemas.org
Editor's Notes
- #3: ELIXIR is a pan-european infrastructure for life science information. Broadly, it’s goals are to comprising of 22 national nodes, plus a node for the EBI, and a special Hub node that aims to help connect and provide support for nodes. Like a spoke and hub system. Each node has many institutions associated with them, there are over 100 altogether which yield a complicated distributed architecture. Resources are being produced in each institution or across a selection of institutions in huge quantities. Tools, training, compute infrastructure, datasets etc. all exist on heterogenous collections of websites. Some in global repositories, some on country wide repositories, some on institutional, some on personal. There’s humongous diversity in the landscape these resources. ELIXIR hopes to aggregate and present uniformly distriibuted resources in order to improve their findability. The oft-cited FAIR Principles states guidelines for data stewardship should be Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reproducible. As such ELIXIR attempts to improve findabiity through discovery portals. And as you’ll see, certainly keep the AIR in mind. --0
- #5: New providers and developments of old ones - each a unique challenge Proud to collect so many 500 Materials + 120 upcoming events + 4 thousand archived, looking forward to collecting more
- #9: Distributed Research Infrastrtucture. Developing training opportunities across 20+ member nodes Collect and harmonize. Feture rich environment. Connected outwardly to complimentary projects. Promote ELIXIR nodes and keep access to data open to be utilized
- #12: Once we have the data in TeSS we can implement novel and useful features. Subscription service for example. Plans to extend this to a subscription service – input twitter, email and other social media handles and receive notifcations as and when other events that meet your criteria appear.
- #14: Navigational tools. Give context to training materials in real scientific processes. Agile dev so no complete, but we have a usable iteration. Hosting workshop in UK before March next year. Create content and review mechanism. Details to be announced. Implementation study for training workflows. Prioritised by training platform, waiting on tools platform. Led by Frederick Coppens from Belgium very capable guy
- #15: Important to connect with other ELIXIR data with Biotools and Biosharing can improve usefulness of content
- #22: Collection of schemas can be used to describe online objects
- #33: Plugin to the Bioschemas spec development activities Driving events and training specifications. Prime example for other specifications. Slower going pathing the way but lots of good lessons for future implementations. Early on would write HTML scrapers if necessary. Now drawing a strong line under that. In last resort situations it will be put on the issue tracker with low priority. Development resources too expensive and maintenance is practically - repeat.