March 13 - 17 BioSB organizes (in Wageningen, NL) the course

    "Knowledge Graphs in the Life Sciences".

Although many people indicated their interest in this course, not many people have signed up so far. Make sure to register quickly if you want to gain more experience and knowledge with/about Linked Data technologies. Experienced teachers (like Jasper Koehorst, Önder Babur and Anna Fensel) are ready to share their expertise with you!

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More information about the course can be found here.
Registration (pref. before 3 Febr) can be done here.
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You can expect the following learning outcomes:

• Explain Linked Data technologies (Internet, Semantic Web, ontologies, graph databases), standards and recommendations (as URI, XML, RDF, OWL, SPARQL), and their use in forming a Web of Data;
• Use Linked Data technologies for retrieving information in the Semantic Web (i.e. use of SPARQL);
• Use of existing vocabularies for annotating data and endpoints for finding data for a particular domain;
• Understand the FAIR principles and how to apply it to a research project;
• Able to convert research metadata into FAIR Linked Datasets.

The course is aimed at PhD students with a background in biology, computer science or a related field, and life sciences. Participants from the private sector are also welcome. Preparation material will be distributed dug the course.

We wish you a warm welcome in Wageningen!

Kind regards,
Petra Aarnoutse
community manager BioSB