Presentation about Training materials and events specifications at the Bioschemas Adoption Meeting on 2nd October 2017. Presentation given by Niall Beard. Shows the aggregation use case of Bioschemas - showing adoption of the schema.org and a new tool for importing schema.org annotations

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Bioschemas Adoption meeting
Events and Training Materials Schema
(Aggregation use case + New importer tools for TeSS)
Niall Beard
ELIXIR-TeSS Project Manager
University of Manchester

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Bioschemas and TeSS
• TeSS aggregates links + metadata about Life
science events and training materials and displays
them in a portal.
• To aggregate - TeSS team write scrapers to parse
HTML, RSS feeds, ICS calendars, APIs – anything
structured - and add to TeSS
• We created one of the very first Bioschemas
specifications! To allow content providers to be
included in the registry more quickly and reliably
by adding simple structured data to their site.

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Bioschemas and TeSS
• We’ve had lots of Bioschemas adoption by
training content providers.
• Formats of programmatically ingested training
resource feeds in TeSS:
• ICS file format 5
• RSS feed 2
• HTML scraping 3
• Bioschemas 14
• GitHub YAML 2
• Read API 4

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Semi-Automated Bioschemas Importer
• Introducing a new tool in TeSS. Not in
production yet
• Automatically parses any schema.org/Event or
schema.org/CreativeWork resources ready for
inclusion in TeSS

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Create a new content provider or select an existing one

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Input URL of webpage containing training events or materials that are:
a) annotated in schema.org JSON-LD or RDFA format or
b) in an .ics file format

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The importer downloads the page, extracts the metadata of any events of
training materials, and displays it in a ‘staging area’

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Use the ‘details’ button to see all the extracted metadata about each
resource

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The ‘staging area’ alerts the importer to resources already existing inTeSS

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Select which resources you wish to import

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The importer bulk creates all the selected events

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Issues
• Formatting + Data at source page must be perfect for
this to be effective
– We usually write custom scrapers that download a
page, extract the metadata and save.
– This gives us the flexibility to write custom
modifications to data
• Normalization: GB -> United Kingdom
• Supplement: Lookup Lat/Lon of event based on street
address
• Correction: Fix formatting issues
• Clear visualization of what data can be extracted. Could
be a useful tool for helping providers annotate with
Bioschemas – then create a custom scraper with mods

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Issues
• Can’t discover new resources
– TeSS scrapers are run each night and any new
resources discovered are added to TeSS
– The importer tool forces users to make explicit
choices about which resources should be added
– Having an ‘Add anything you find’ creation policy can
lead to issues. Lots of schema.org generated within
CMSs that might be unintended
• We could send manual prompts to content
provider owners asking to confirm whether newly
discovered resources should be added

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Training Resource Schemas Review
• GOBLET AGM, Portugal
– Thursday 23rd November 2017 – Full day
– Review Events and Training materials
specifications:
• Refine mandatory terms
• Improve coverage
• Adapt to current best practices with input from training
community
• In collaboration with GOBLETs Standards Committee
• Will publish report of activity.
http://mygoblet.org/about-us/goblet-
events/goblet-agm-2017-oeiras

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Thanks!
• Any Questions?
• Slides are available on Slideshare:
• https://slideshare.net/NiallBeard
• Visit TeSS at:
• https://tess.elixir-europe.org