Definitions#
Definitions of terms and user roles used across TeSS.
Terms#
Definition of common terms used across TeSS.
Content provider#
Entities (such as academic institutions, non-profit organisations, portals) that provide training materials of relevance.
ELIXIR TeSS Portal#
The ELIXIR TeSS portal, the training registry for Europe’s distributed infrastructure for life-science data, is built using the TeSS Platform.
Event#
An event in TeSS is a link to a single training event sourced by a provider along with description and other meta information (e.g. date, location, audience, ontological categorization, keywords).
Training events can be added manually or automatically harvested from a provider’s website.
Exchange (TeSS-X)#
If a community runs its own instance then a TeSS-X plugin sets up an exchange with other instances. In the mTeSS-X project, we will show how several TeSS-instance catalogues exchange nominated training resources. See What do we mean by eXchange? on the mTeSS-X project website for details.
Instance#
One installation of the TeSS Platform, on a server, managed by a technical administrator. An instance may have multiple spaces, if this option has been enabled by the administrator.
Examples of TeSS instances can be viewed on the global usages page.
Learning path#
A a pathway that guides learners through a set of modules (courses/materials) to be undertaken progressively (from lower- to higher-order thinking skills) to acquire the desired knowledge and skills on a subject by the end of the pathway.
mTeSS-X Project#
The mTeSS-X Project (Multi-space Training e-Support System with eXchange) overcomes the fragmentation of training resources across Research Infrastructures and the European Science Clusters. The project aims to enhance existing TeSS-based training registries or catalogues like ELIXIR TeSS (life sciences) and PaN-Training (photon and neutron) by building an aggregator for these and similar platforms.
Space (mTeSS)#
A single TeSS instance presents multiple tailored spaces (catalogues) whose selections of training material are “views” on a global catalogue. Each community registers, maintains and curates their material for their members in their own virtual space in the common portal environment. See What do we mean by Multi-space/tenancy? on the mTeSS-X project website for details.
TeSSHub#
The first TeSS instance with multiple spaces. This will be one of the outputs from the mTeSS-X project, where ELIXIR TeSS (life sciences) and PaN-Training (photon and neutron) will be multipe spaces running from the same server, appearing as distinct catalogue.
Communities will be welcome to request their own space on the TeSSHub, providing them with their own registry, without the need to host and maintain their own instance.
TeSS Platform#
The main codebase which is used for development, written in Ruby on Rails. The code is open source and available on GitHub under a BSD 3-Clause licence.
Training material#
In the context of TeSS, a training material is a link to a single online training material sourced by a content provider (such as a text on a Web page, presentation, video) along with description and other meta information (e.g. ontological categorization, keywords).
Materials can be added manually or automatically harvested from a provider’s website.
Roles#
Definitions of user roles in TeSS.
Administrator#
The technical administrator, responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of a TeSS instance.
Collaborator#
An individual who has been granted editing rights to a material, topic or learning path by the individual (owner) who created it.
Contributor#
Individuals and organisations that contributed to the published work but are not authors.
Curator#
An individual who has been granted permission to create a learning path in TeSS while following their community’s editorial process, or edit the materials associated with a content provider or node.
Editor (of a content provider)#
A person with editing rights to a content provider.
Owner#
An individual who has created a material, topic or learning path in TeSS.
Space Manager#
The person responsible for managing a space within an instance.