Regional Training course for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students with expert trainers and trainers-in-training - Dilijan, Armenia (5 days), 1 to 5 May 2022.
Successful attendees will be issued a certificate of attendance corresponding to 2 ECTS and a digital GBIF Certified Trainer badge. This training model has been tested in the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme and is adapted to BioDATA needs. The course is designed for 16-20 participants. All applicants must submit a motivation letter as part of their registration. The lectures will be in English (with some teaching materials available in Armenian).
BioDATA students and young researchers from Armenia are invited to register to apply for attending the course. Travel, meals, and accommodation will be covered for accepted participants in this course. Please note that all participants must have valid travel insurance that covers medical expenses.
Program overview
Pre-course survey (all students invited to answer the pre-course survey)
On-site online course at https://docs.gbif.org/course-data-mobilization.
Sunday 1/5 Planning
Monday 2/5 Data capture and cleaning
Excel tips -- https://bit.ly/dm-excel-tips
Darwin Core machine translated to Armenian
Tuesday 3/5 Bioblitz and excursion
Bioblitz on Tuesday 3 May at the Hidden Waterfall Trail
Leave reception at 08:30 (drive by bus to the site, 19 km)
Return at 13:00 by bus from Hidden Waterfall Trail
Note that the weather forecast has rain (raingear and outdoor boots)
16:00 OpenRefine data cleaning | OpenRefine PDF | https://bit.ly/dm-or
17:30 Agribiodiversity data in GBIF
Wednesday 4/5 data publishing
Course IPT
Thursday 5/5
Introduction to the post-course use cases
Course evaluation survey
Closing and departure
Teachers and mentors
Local organizers: Armine Abrahamyan (ANAU), Andreas Melikyan (ANAU).
Teacher team: Laura Russell (GBIF Secretariat), Dmitry Schigel (GBIF Secretariat), Dag Endresen (University of Oslo, GBIF Norway), Rukaya Johaadien (University of Oslo, GBIF Norway), Michal Torma (University of Oslo, GBIF Norway), Hugo de Boer (University of Oslo, GBIF Norway).
Course mentors: Tatevik Aloyan (ANAU), Hrant Khachatryan (ANAU), Rukaya Johaadien (GBIF Norway), Michal Torma (GBIF Norway).
Registration
The course registration deadline was 17th April 2022. The course is open to local students and young researchers from Armenia. Students were selected on the basis of a brief motivation letter describing their background and interest in the course topic of open biodiversity data publication.
Venue and travel information
The venue for the training course is the Dilijan Best Western Plus Paradise Hotel, 156 Kamo Str, Dilijan 3906, Armenia.
International travel is booked by the BioDATA secretariat at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. Accommodation and meals during the course are covered for all invited participants.
Please note that all participants must have valid travel insurance that covers medical expenses.
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This course was postponed from April 2020 because of COVID travel restrictions.
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