Background
The Autumn Data School is an 3-day training workshop designed and host in collaboration between LifeWatch, its Belgian, Greek and Italian National Nodes and EMODnet Biology. EMODnet provides access to data from a wide range of sources and pursues inclusion of new and historical data sets.
Contents and Structure
- Day 1: Policy, Scientific, and Technical context
- Day 2: Data Standardization and Data Quality
The first two days are organized as a DATAthon focusing on transferring knowledge on data lifecycle management best practices. A group of researchers from the African Mediterranean countries will bring their own dataset to work on and follow all the steps up to its final submission to Marine Research Repositories, such as MedOBIS and the LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue, with the focus on facilitating its reuse.
- Day 3: Data Rescue via Citizen Science Platforms
The third day focuses on teaching participants how to use Citizen Science platforms, such as Zooniverse and the LifeWatch Citizen Science Platform. The purpose of this training session is to create a Citizen Science project and engage volunteers in the historical data rescue and standardization process. For this session two historical datasets and a new dataset are selected by the organizers to work with, based on the work done in the previous phase of the EMODnet Biology IV.
Learning Objectives
It is expected that, by the end of the workshop, participants will be better positioned to:
- Understand the FAIR principles by explaining why sharing data is important and why data standards are beneficial
- Discuss Darwin Core principles and recognise Darwin Core terms
- Apply Darwin Core standards
to your own dataset's format
- Experiment with Citizen Science online tools as the LifeWatch Citizen Science Platform and Zooniverse
Target Audience
Marine biologists, ecologists, data stewards, data managers, citizen science practitioners.