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Upcoming postdoc training workshop at NCEAS:
August 2-3, 2007
Thursday am: Session I
Thursday pm: Session II
Friday am: Session III
Below is a generic outline for (rapid) Ecoinformatics training, in 3 half-day sessions. For an example of a more extensive workshop on KNB-specific tools and concepts, refer to the http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knbworkshop.jsp 2004 KNB Workshop.
Session I
Making your data work for you
- Intro to (eco)informatics issues, history, directions
- Approaches to data management/analysis: A Goofus and Gallant case study
- The siren song of spreadsheets
- The perils of point-and-click (aka, scripts are super)
- Recollection
- Reproduction
- Reuse
- Cross-platform is cool
- - more -
Session II
Sharing is caring
- NCEAS Ecoinformatics program
- History
- Current activities
- Metadata
- Why is data description so important?
- Metadata standards and such
- Ecological Metadata Language: A practical overview
- Registering and accessing (meta/)data through the web
- Morpho: Desktop software for managing data/metadata
- Where to get it
- How to use it (search & retrieval; enter your data/metadata via wizards)
Session III
Get ready for the future…
- Kepler: Scientific workflow management
- Overview
- Examples of workflows
- Hands-on Kepler activities? (Guided lab or free-form?)
- EarthGrid: Beyond the KNB
- Other projects in the pipeline?
- REAP
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