This presentation was recorded as part of the ELIXIR Webinar series and can be viewed at http://www.elixir-europe.org/documents/elixir-webinar%3A-introducing-tess-february-2017 - The presentation covers an introduction to the ELIXIR Training platform TeSS - some of it's features, functions and future works. It also has a whistle-top tour of Bioschemas - the group developing schema.org for the Life sciences.
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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
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)
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
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
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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/
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Important to connect with other ELIXIR data
with Biotools and Biosharing can improve usefulness of content
Collection of schemas can be used to describe online objects
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.