Training

The main goal of the e-Training is to create an environment where training and knowledge exchange can take place at the trainee’s own pace through on-demand and easily accessible courses. The key to these autonomous learning systems is the ability to train groups located in multiple areas on a fully automated basis, reducing the time between learning and application. Such an approach also brings clear economic benefits while keeping trainees up to speed on the latest developments.

Training objectives

• Empower end user community capacities particularly at scientific and management level in order to facilitate the usage of iMarine data e-infrastructure, Virtual Research EnvironmentA ''system'' with the following distinguishing features: ''(i)'' it is a Web-based working environment; ''(ii)'' it is tailored to serve the needs of a Community of Practice; ''(iii)'' it is expected to provide a community of practice with the whole array of commodities needed to accomplish the community’s goal(s); ''(iv)'' it is open and flexible with respect to the overall service offering and lifetime; and ''(v)'' it promotes fine-grained controlled sharing of both intermediate and final research results by guaranteeing ownership, provenance, and attribution. and services developed (e.g. common interfaces and resource integration, Virtual Research EnvironmentA ''system'' with the following distinguishing features: ''(i)'' it is a Web-based working environment; ''(ii)'' it is tailored to serve the needs of a Community of Practice; ''(iii)'' it is expected to provide a community of practice with the whole array of commodities needed to accomplish the community’s goal(s); ''(iv)'' it is open and flexible with respect to the overall service offering and lifetime; and ''(v)'' it promotes fine-grained controlled sharing of both intermediate and final research results by guaranteeing ownership, provenance, and attribution. Operation and Maintenance, etc.).

• Enhance the competencies of EA-CoPCommunity of Practice. information managers and specialists by facilitating structured knowledge exchange to assist in formulating policy and technological policy guidelines and best practices with consultation and feedback.

• Raise awareness of underlying technologies, standards and interoperability based on the real-world needs of the user and wider EA-CoPCommunity of Practice..

• Streamline educational services, reduce costs and the time between learning and implementation through “anytime, anywhere” training modules.

Potential Trainees

1. users from identified collaborative projects such as ICES, TunAtlas, etc. - Applications end users? data management specialists?
2. users from a more general audience who can/should help with the development of training material, and not simply expect to benefit from it - Applications end users? data management specialists?
3. Students who could contribute to content under the supervision of their professor/tutor - Applications end users? data management specialists?
4. IT specialist, who may require training on the infrastructure - software developers?

Training Material

• Presentations

• Manual & Guidelines documents

• Training video on the applications

Training Content

A lot of material has been made available in order to describe some of the facilities offered by iMarine:

• End-User Collaboration: Overview, Workspace, Messages;
• Enhanced Reports Production: Report Template Creation, Report Creation, Report Workflow;
• Statistical Data Mining: Data Management, Data Mining, Method Creation;
• Species Distribution Modeling: Data Management, AquaMaps Production, AquaMaps View;
• Species Data Discovery: Taxonomic Items, Occurrence Records;
• Species Occurrences Data Management: Management;
• Geospatial Data Management: Maps Visualization;
• Tabular Data Management: Import and Curation, Management;
• Infrastructure Management: VRE Definition and Deployment, Resources Management, Data Indexing, File Transfer;

On End-User Collaboration Facilities

Overview
Description	This material describes the iMarine main page, i.e. the main page a user faces after a log in. The video describes the major components of such a page and introduces the facilities for posting messages, having access to the events log and to the VREs to the End-User.
Audience	End-user
Material	Video (5 minutes) (draft version)
Workspace
Description	This material describes the iMarine Workspace, i.e. a facility conceived to provide its user with a collaborative area for storing, exchanging and organizing information objects according to any specific need. Every user of the iMarine gateway, thus of any Virtual Research EnvironmentA ''system'' with the following distinguishing features: ''(i)'' it is a Web-based working environment; ''(ii)'' it is tailored to serve the needs of a Community of Practice; ''(iii)'' it is expected to provide a community of practice with the whole array of commodities needed to accomplish the community’s goal(s); ''(iv)'' it is open and flexible with respect to the overall service offering and lifetime; and ''(v)'' it promotes fine-grained controlled sharing of both intermediate and final research results by guaranteeing ownership, provenance, and attribution., is provided with this area that resembles a classic folder-based file system.
Audience	End-user
Material	Video (5 minutes) draft version Workspace User Guide
Messages
Description	This material describes the iMarine Messages, i.e. a facility conceived to provide its user with a mechanism for exchanging messages including Workspace items with coworkers. Every user of the iMarine gateway, thus of any Virtual Research EnvironmentA ''system'' with the following distinguishing features: ''(i)'' it is a Web-based working environment; ''(ii)'' it is tailored to serve the needs of a Community of Practice; ''(iii)'' it is expected to provide a community of practice with the whole array of commodities needed to accomplish the community’s goal(s); ''(iv)'' it is open and flexible with respect to the overall service offering and lifetime; and ''(v)'' it promotes fine-grained controlled sharing of both intermediate and final research results by guaranteeing ownership, provenance, and attribution. is provided with this area that resembles a classic email system.
Audience	End-user
Material	Video (3 minutes) draft version

On Enhanced Reports Production Facilities

Enhanced Reports: Templates Creation
Description	This material describes the iMarine Enhanced Reports environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to enable users to collaboratively produce reports consisting in complex documents characterised by well defined structures (templates). In particular, this material focuses on the Template creation facilities.
Audience	End-user
Material	Video (Duration) User Guide
Enhanced Reports: Report Creation
Description	This material describes the iMarine Enhanced Reports environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to enable users to collaboratively produce reports consisting in complex documents characterised by well defined structures (templates). In particular, this material focuses on the Report creation facilities.
Audience	End-user
Material	Video (Duration) User Guide
Enhanced Reports: Workflows
Description	This material describes the iMarine Enhanced Reports Workflow environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to enable users (i) to define complex workflows (including steps and roles users should have to perform certain steps) governing the production of Enhanced Reports, (ii) to instantiate such workflows to actual documents to be collaboratively created, and (iii) to monitor workflow execution;
Audience	End-user
Material	Video (Duration) User Guide

On Statistical Data Mining Facilities

Statistical Data Mining: Data Management
Description	This material describes the iMarine Statistical Data Mining environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with a comprehensive set of operations to analyze various types of datasets. In particular, this material describes the set of facilities users are provided with for the management of the datasets that will then be used as input for the operations.
Audience	End-user / Data Manager
Material	Video (5'10) Draft Version
Statistical Data Mining: Experiment Execution
Description	This material describes the iMarine Statistical Data Mining environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with a comprehensive set of operations to analyze various types of datasets. In particular, this material describes the set of facilities users are provided with for using the available operations and monitoring their execution.
Audience	End-user / Data manager
Material	Video (5'50) Draft Version
Statistical Data Mining: New Method Provision
Description	This material describes the iMarine Statistical Data Mining environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with a comprehensive set of operations to analyze various types of datasets. In particular, this material describes the set of facilities users are provided with to add a new operation to the set of supported ones.
Audience	End-user
Material	Video (5'53) Draft Version

On Species Distribution Modeling Facilities

AquaMaps: Data Management
Description	This material describes the iMarine AquaMaps environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities for producing species distribution maps by relying on the AquaMaps niche modeling algorithm. In particular, this material describes the set of facilities users are provide with to produce new versions of the data sets to be used to actually produce the maps.
Audience	End-user / Data Manager
Material	Video (6'06)
AquaMaps: Species Distribution Maps Production
Description	This material describes the iMarine AquaMaps environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities for producing species distribution maps by relying on the AquaMaps niche modeling algorithm. In particular, this material describes the set of facilities users are provide with to produce species distribution maps.
Audience	End-user / Data Manager
Material	Video (Duration) User Guide
AquaMaps: Species View
Description	This material describes the iMarine Species View environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities supporting an advanced search and browse of species maps produced via the AquaMaps application. It offers (i) simple search by species name, (ii) advanced search by supporting criteria on species name, code, taxonomy, and/or characteristic, and (iii) support for visualisation of products by image, by detailed record, and by scientific record.
Audience	End-user / Data Manager
Material	Video (Duration) User Guide

On Species Data Discovery Facilities

Species Products Discovery: Taxonomy Items
Description	This material describes the iMarine Species Products Discovery environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities supporting the discovery and management of species data including taxa names and occurrence points from a number of providers in a seamless way. In particular, this material focused on the set of features related to Taxonomy Items, i.e. characterizations of species taxa made available by various providers including Catalogue of Life, OBIS, WoRMS.
Audience	End-user
Material	Video (Duration)
Species Products Discovery: Occurrence Data
Description	This material describes the iMarine Species Products Discovery environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities supporting the discovery and management of species data including taxa names and occurrence points from a number of providers in a seamless way. In particular, this material focused on the set of features related to Occurrence Datasets, i.e. dataset of species occurrence records made available by various providers including GBIF and OBIS.
Audience	End-user
Material	Video (5') DraftVersion

On Species Occurrences Data Management Facilities

Occurrences Data Management Facilities
Description	This material describes the iMarine Occurrence Data Management environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with a comprehensive set of operations to analyze Occurrence Data. In particular, this material describes the set of facilities users are provide with for using the available operations and monitoring their execution and assumes that the user is familiar with the Statistical Data Mining environment for data management facilities.
Audience	End-user
Material	Video (Duration)

On Geospatial Data Managament Facilities

Geo Explorer
Description	This material describes the iMarine Geo Explorer environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities supporting an advanced search and browse of species distribution maps. It offers (i) simple search by keyword, e.g. species name, (ii) browsing, and (iii) support for visualisation and superposition of products.
Audience	End-user / Data Manager
Material	Video (Duration).

On Tabular Data Management Facilities

ICIS: Tabular data Import and Curation
Description	This material describes the iMarine Tabular Data Management environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities supporting the import, curation and management of tabular data and time series. In particular, it focuses on the facilities enabling data managers to import and transform CSV files in time series, i.e. tabular data having proper types associated with columns eventually referring to code lists – reference datasets representing recognized value instances of the elements the dataset is about, e.g., species, zones, countries.
Audience	End-user / Data manager
Material	Video (4'03) User Guide
Tabular Data Management
Description	This material describes the iMarine Tabular Data Management environment, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities supporting the import, curation and management of tabular data and time series. In particular, it focuses on the facilities supporting the analysis of the data by enabling a user to (i) perform operations like grouping and filtering, (ii) producing charts and GIS maps (if the data have geographic features) and (iii) analysing the data via an R environment. Finally, the environment supports the publishing of time series in the infrastructure by equipping them with rich metadata so that such resources can be used in other application contexts.
Audience
Material	Video (Duration) User Guide

On Infrastructure Management Facilities

VREVirtual Research Environment. Definition and Deployment Facilities
Description	This material describes the iMarine Virtual Research EnvironmentA ''system'' with the following distinguishing features: ''(i)'' it is a Web-based working environment; ''(ii)'' it is tailored to serve the needs of a Community of Practice; ''(iii)'' it is expected to provide a community of practice with the whole array of commodities needed to accomplish the community’s goal(s); ''(iv)'' it is open and flexible with respect to the overall service offering and lifetime; and ''(v)'' it promotes fine-grained controlled sharing of both intermediate and final research results by guaranteeing ownership, provenance, and attribution. management facilities, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities for the creation and management of Virtual Research Environments. In particular, it focuses on the facilities supporting the characterization of such environments in terms of data to be made available and facilities to be offered and the actual deployment of such environments in terms of services to be deployed and machines to be allocated.
Audience	End-user / Community managers
Material	Video(5') User Guide
Resources Management Facilities
Description	This material describes the iMarine Resources Management facilities, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities for the browsing of the resources forming the infrastructure, their allocation to given scope, their monitoring and other management tasks.
Audience	End-user / Infrastructure Manager
Material	Video (5') User Guide
Data Indexing
Description	This material describes the iMarine Indexing facilities, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities for creating indices, i.e. data structures supporting the efficient discovery and retrieval of information objects.
Audience	Infrastructure Manager / Data Manager
Material	Video (4'18) User Guide
File Transfer
Description	This material describes the iMarine File Transfer facilities, i.e. a working environment conceived to provide its users with facilities for transferring files from a given source, i.e. a location where the file currently resides, to a target destination, i.e. a location where a new copy of the file should be placed. Details on scheduling of repetitive tasks will be given.
Audience	Infrastructure Manager / Data Manager
Material	Video (4') User Guide