TeSS training eSupport System
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The document discusses TeSS (Training eSupport System), a central registry maintained by ELIXIR to index training materials from various sources using a scraping process. It notes challenges with scraping including being labor intensive, sensitive to changes, and not scalable. The document proposes using Schema.org annotations on web pages to facilitate automated indexing of training materials and events. It encourages involvement in the TeSS and BioSchemas initiatives.
TeSS training eSupport System
- 1. www.elixir-europe.org TeSS Training eSupport System http://tess.elixir-uk.org/ ELIXIR All Hands, 8-9 March 2016, Barcelona, Spain Niall Beard, Aleksandra Nenadic
- 2. TeSS: Training e-Support System • Materials presented in: •Institution websites •Training repositories •Organisation websites • Have a central registry of all training materials. •Search, filter, package, create training workflows.
- 3. Anatomy of a scraper • Get Training Material Index page • Parse HTML (using Nokogiri, xpath) • Find all links • Get all Training Materials • Parse HTML (using Nokogiri, xpath) • Locate useful elements • Title, links, descriptions, keywords, topics, etc • Push using our API client to TeSS
- 4. Training Aggregation Problem • Scraping • Labour intensive • Sensitive to change • Not scalable or maintainable after project • API or XML Dump • Difficult and/or expensive to implement for content providers • Low incentive - low benefit-to-cost ratio if only included in TeSS.
- 6. Schema.org
- 7. Why BioSchemas then? • Events • Proposed amendments to Event schema (http://schema.org/Event) • E.g. socialMedia, hostInstitution, keywords, eventType, topic • Training Materials • Proposed amendments to CreativeWork schema (see: http://schema.org/CreativeWork) • E.g. timeRequired, licence, audience, author, topic • Person • Proposed amendments to Person schema (http://schema.org/Person) • Proposed new LifeSciencePerson schema (http://schema.org/LifeSciencePerson) • Organization • Proposed amendments to Organization schema (http://schema.org/Organization
- 8. Get involved • Go to http://tess.elixir-uk.org • Join our mailing list or our regular Skype calls • Join the BioSchemas lists / Regular Skype calls • Training/Event Content Providers • Registry providers – other types of resource • Opinionated Experts