The document outlines the ELIXIR training portal, which aims to fill training gaps in life sciences through an e-learning platform, training events, and targeted upskilling of researchers and developers. It introduces TESS, a discovery platform for searching and organizing training events and materials, and highlights features such as workflow integration, registry association, and schema development for life science resources. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of context in learning bioinformatics processes and provides tools for creating training packages.

1. TeSS: ELIXIR Training Portal
Niall Beard, Milo Thurston, Finn Bacall,
Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Teresa Attwood, Carole Goble
EuBic Winter School
10th January 2017

2. ELIXIR Platforms
+ Use Cases

3. 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

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

5. Institutions and organization providing training
materials, courses, and eLearning
+ many, many, many more

6. Training discovery platform v.0.1
Aka, Google it

7. 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

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

10. Subscribe to calendar feeds

11. Have them appear in your favourite calendar
client

12. 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!!!

13. 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

14. 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/

15. 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.