How we support FAIR

How we support FAIR#

Training materials and events are widely dispersed and fragmented, making it challenging for users to identify relevant materials. Training e-Support System (TeSS) is a web-based open-source platform consolidating resources from various providers into an easy-to-use portal. It is a one-stop-shop for trainers and trainees to discover training materials, workshops, and online courses in relevant topics such as data management and open research methods.

For providers, the TeSS Platform makes it easy to make resources FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable):

  • Findable: A unique, persistent identifier such as DOI is requested for all materials. (For example, publish your materials in Zenodo to be assigned a DOI.)

  • Accessible: TeSS materials/events are accessible to all registered users via the TeSS website, widgets or JSON API. Your content will seen more in search results owing to our search-engine optimisation (SEO).

  • Interoperable: Metadata uses a standard vocabulary (EDAM for ELIXIR). We expose content using Schema.org (Bioschemas), JSON-LD, and OAI-PMH open standards.

  • Reusable: License is requested for all materials, such as Creative Commons.

Interoperate using Linked Data#

When you view a material or event on TeSS, there is machine-readable metadata behind the human-readable content. If you were to view the HTML source of the page, you would see this code, written as JSON-LD.

View Source to see the embedded metadata

Developers can access this Bioschemas-compliant JSON-LD metadata, without the human-readable HTML, to use interoperate as Linked Data. To do this, append .jsonld to the URL. For example:

https://tess.elixir-europe.org/materials/how-to-make-your-messy-data-usable-openrefine

…becomes

https://tess.elixir-europe.org/materials/how-to-make-your-messy-data-usable-openrefine.jsonld
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