How do we work towards our training materials being FAIR?
We are striving to increase our FAIRness of training material in accordance with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles for training materials Garcia et al. 2020. Following these principles enables trainers and trainees to find, reuse, adapt, and improve the available tutorials.
Plan to share your training materials online
Plan to share your training materials online
We provide our online training material portfolio via the Content and Learning Management system LearnDash as well as additional material via github repositories.
Improve findability of your training materials by properly describing them
Improve findability of your training materials by properly describing them
Rich metadata associated with each material that are visible and accessible via schema.org on each tutorial webpage and are aggregated on this sitemap.
Give your training materials a unique identity
Give your training materials a unique identity
not yet implemented; option could be URL persistency with redirection in case of renaming of tutorials. Data used for tutorials stored on Zenodo and associated with a Digital Object Identifiers (DOI).
Register your training materials online
Register your training materials online
Tutorials automatically registered on TeSS, the ELIXIR’s Training e-Support System
If appropriate, define access rules for your training materials
If appropriate, define access rules for your training materials
We have fully open material as well as material which are online accessible when registering for the associated remote or in-person course.
Use an interoperable format for your training materials
Use an interoperable format for your training materials
In case of open content, the content of the tutorials and slides are written in Markdown. Metadata associated with tutorials stored as structured data in JSON-LD format. Images are made available in svg format where available. We are exploring technologies to make the content more machine readable and re-useable.
Make your training materials (re-)usable for trainers
Make your training materials (re-)usable for trainers
Online. Rich metadata associated with each tutorial: title, contributor details, license, description, learning outcomes, audience, requirements, tags/keywords, duration, date of last revision.
Make your training materials contribution friendly and citable
Make your training materials contribution friendly and citable
We are establishing contribution guidelines to our material. Details to cite tutorials and give credit to contributors will be available at the end of each tutorial.
Keep your training materials up-to-date
Keep your training materials up-to-date
We are releasing new update of each material connected to the associated course. Internally, we are establishing a collaborative and transparent peer-review and curation process.