Summary
Course description:
The International Oceanographic Data Exchange (IODE) of IOC-UNESCO – together with regional partners across the globe – has developed an inclusive Ocean Data and Information System (ODIS) to allow digital stakeholders to reliably share and discover key ocean data. ODIS is built by its participants: anyone with data to share can become a node in the ODIS network. During this course, participants will be trained in how to link their systems into ODIS and to make them a more visible and actionable part of the ocean’s digital ecosystem.
The course’s central aims are to: Equip participants with a conceptual understanding of what ODIS is, why it has been created, and how it works. Equip participants with conceptual and practical understandings of the technical components of ODIS, including its use of schema.org patterns and web-based publishing and harvesting. Provide participants with the tools they need to describe their (meta)data and publish it.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the course, the learners are expected to:
- understand the Ocean Data and Information System
- understand how to incorporate ODIS schema.org patterns into existing online databases or websites.
Course content:
- Module 1: High-level concepts of OIH/ODIS
- Module 2: General introduction to our use of schema.org
- Module 3: ODIS schema.org patterns (One video per pattern, walking through filling them in with correct data (implementation agnostic)
- Module 4: Demonstrations of ODIS-architecture patterns
- Module 5: Setting up the standard publishing/contribution environment
- Module 6: Harvesting patterns in JSON/RDF
- Module 7: Querying harvested material
- Module 8: 2 practical OIH implementation examples
- Module 9:Â Demonstration of the ODIS Search Interface
- Module 10:Â Catalogue Recommendations / Best Practices
Target audience and prerequisites:
The target audience should have a working understanding of JSON and the HTML Document Object Model.
How to configure extensions to their web framework (DKAN, CKAN, geonetwork, or others), IF a framework is being used.
Language of instruction:
English – Spanish-Portuguese –Â French
the content is available in 4 languages
Instructors:
- Lucy Scott – UNESCO/IOC Ocean Infohub Project
- Pier Luigi Buttigieg – GEOMAR/ Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
- Douglas Fils –  UNESCO/IOC Ocean Infohub Project
- Jeff McKenna – UNESCO/IOC Ocean Infohub Project
- Arno Lambert – UNESCO/IOC/ Project Office for IODE
Learner Assessment:Â n/a
Certificate:Â A certificate will be issued to those who completed the course.
Technology requirements/computer skills:
Participants are expected to:
- have a working understanding of JSON and the HTML Document Object Model
- know how to configure extensions to their web framework (DKAN, CKAN, Geonetwork or others), IF a framework is being used
Pre-requisites:Â No
Course duration and format:Â This is a self-paced course based on an online course organized in April 2023, with an estimated duration/workload of 5 hours.
The self-paced course will be open until 1 December 2024 (23:59 CEST: Central European Time).
UNESCO is committed to promoting equal access principles. Applications from minority or underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged. For any questions please contact the OTGA Secretariat (ioc.training@unesco.org) always using the name of the course as the email subject.
Contacts:
– course coordinator: Lucy Scott info@oceaninfohub.org
– OTGA Secretariat:Â ioc.training@unesco.org
More information on this course: here.