Dear colleague,

Please find below the information for our ELIXIR-NL Training on technical aspects of Data Stewardship.

Course: Technical Data Stewardship
Date: 2-4 December 2019
Location: Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam.
Course fee: Registration is free of charge
Registration page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elixir-nl-training-technical-data-stewardship-registration-77268192243

Course description
We will explore the ELIXIR Data stewardship wizard and see how one can employ and adopt it towards a community or research project. We will set the first steps on the path to FAIRify metadata by means of linked data. And finally we will see how FAIR data can be used in computational workflows and how to gather provenance data while working with data assets. The training is organised by ELIXIR-NL and will be given by DTL, ELIXIR CZ, SURF and Wageningen University.

Target audience
The training is targeted at data stewards, data scientists and research software engineers who would like to deepen their knowledge on concepts and practical implementations of data management/stewardship tools. We assume that you are familiar with programming in a language like Python, R or Matlab.

Learning outcomes
Participants will gain insight into the Data Stewardship Wizard how to employ and adjust the tool towards a special use case. They will learn about the principles of data modeling and making data FAIR by means of linked data. During the course we will apply these technologies to a real world data set. Participants will know afterwards how to approach their own data and can set first steps on the FAIRification process. Finally participants will know how to manage data and metadata in iRODS and how to employ data and metadata stored in iRODS in calculations on a remote compute cluster.

Technologies
ELIXIR Data stewardship wizard; Linked data; iRODS; python; SURF compute clusters

Prerequisites
Own laptop; Bash-shell, login to VM by ssh; Elementary knowledge of python

Draft programme

Monday December 2, 2019 - 12:00-17:00 (onsite & remote training)

Trainers: Rob Hooft (ELIXIR-NL, DTL), Robert Pergl (ELIXIR-CZ, CCMI-FIT), Jan Slifka (ELIXIR-CZ, CCMI-FIT)

12:00 - arrival with lunch
Introduction to Data management plan
Introduction and practical demonstration of the features of DSW: user-view and Data-steward view
Hands-on session

Tuesday December 3, 2019 - 09:00 - 17:00

Trainers: Ben Schaap (Agrosystems Research, WUR), Erik van den Berg (WDCC, WUR), Jasper Koehorst (Systems and Synthetic Biology, WUR), Anand Gavai (WFSR, WUR)

Linked data training
Introduction to Linked Open Data
Exercise 1: pencil & paper exercise
Presentation on SPARQL and wikidata
Hands on real data, putting everything into practice

Wednesday December 4, 2019 - 09:00 - 17:00

Trainer: Arthur Newton (SURFsara)

iRODS and compute

You can find all the information and registration possibilities here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elixir-nl-training-technical-data-stewardship-registration-77268192243

Please spread this announcement in your organisation as you see fit.

Best regards,

Celia van Gelder

Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder

Programme Manager DTL Learning

Training Coordinator ELIXIR-NL

ELIXIR Training Platform Leader

tel. +31613375327

e-mail: celia.van.gelder@dtls.nl

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