ELIXIR-CONVERGE D5.3 Report on the dedicated training and capacity building activities
Résumé
One of the objectives of WP5 was to identify the needs in terms of capacity building, in the context of the 6 use cases, and to develop strategy(ies) in collaboration with WP2 to address these needs. This was achieved in three steps:
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Create an inventory of training resources available in the context of the use cases
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Send an online survey followed by a series of F2F meetings with each use case to collect their training needs
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Test the development of learning paths as a method to develop a structured overview of training needs in relation to a use case
The method set up by the ELIXIR Training Platform to better structure the development of training resources was proved very helpful to specify the needs in terms of training and capacity building in the context of the use cases. Spelling out the priority in terms of training target and the learning path to follow to reach this target is a way to detail the different modules that are necessary. It is then possible to map on these modules the training resources that are already available and to derive a list of gaps. This method was applied for three demo cases successfully in the Plant, Marine metagenomics and Human Genome data contexts.
In terms of general organisation of community resources to facilitate this type of approach, the most important actions are to make the training materials accessible for reuse and easy to find. Versioning is highly desirable, to facilitate collaborative development and maintenance of training material of the time and a DOI attribution will facilitate citation and long term findability. Findability requires additional work to organise the training events and training resources in categories and/or facilitate filtering in the context of catalogues of training resources such as TeSS or Glittr or of knowledge hubs such as the RDMkit. This is achieved in TeSS, through the annotation of the training material and linked training events with ontology terms from EDAM, as well as with custom keywords.
