Program

Teachers: Urmas Kõljalg, Kessy Abarenkov, Hanna Koivula, Allan Zirk, Veljo Runnel

01.11 Arrival
19:00 Welcoming dinner at Dorpat hotel

02.11 Day I
Chemicum, Ravila 14A, 50411 Tartu, room 1051 *
08:30 – 09:15 Lecture: Hanna Koivula – Introductory lecture on Open Science and Open Data, data types, standards
09:15 – 09:35 Lecture: Urmas Kõljalg – Introduction to Open Data and data management in PlutoF
09:35 – 10:00 Lecture and hands on: Case 1 – Specimen based projects
10:00 – 10:20 Break
10:20 – 12:00 Hands on continues: Case 1 – Specimen based projects
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Lecture and hands on: Case 2 – Barcoding projects (Sanger sequences)
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee
15:00 – 16:00 Lecture and hands on: Case 3 – Interactions
16:00 – 16:45 Lecture and hands on: Case 4 – Collection projects (how to start collection databases and manage collection data)
16:45 – 17:00 Digest of the day

03.11 Day II
Chemicum, Ravila 14A, 50411 Tartu, room 1051 *
08:30 – 09:15 Lecture: Hanna Koivula (Publishing, GBIF, DOIs, collecting data)
09:15 – 10:00 Lecture and hands on: Case 5 – Metabarcoding projects
10:00 – 10:20 Break
10:20 – 12:00 Excursion to Natural History Museum’s new exhibition “Earth – Life – Story”
Chemicum, Ravila 14A, 50411 Tartu, room 1052
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Participants’ presentations
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee
15:00 – 16:00 Lecture: Veljo Runnel – Citizen Science and Monitoring
16:00 – 17:00 Lecture: Allan Zirk – Introduction to ODK Collect and preparations for BioBlitz

04.11 Day III
Meeting point: Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu (in the front of University of Tartu Natural history Museum building)
08:30 – 12:00 BioBlitz (collecting data under supervision of Veljo Runnel,  warm clothes recommended)

Chemicum, Ravila 14A, 50411 Tartu, room 1052
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Lecture and hands on: Publishing datasets (creating dataset of the BioBlitz, preparing data paper for the Pensoft’s Biodiversity Data Journal)
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee
15:00 – 17:00 Hands on continues: Publishing datasets

05.11 Day IV
Chemicum, Ravila 14A, 50411 Tartu, room 1051 *
08:30 – 09:15 Lecture: Urmas Kõljalg – Introduction to curating UNITE datasets
09:15 – 10:00 Lecture: Kessy Abarenkov – INSD sequence annotations in PlutoF
10:00 – 10:20 Break
10:20 – 12:00 Hands on: Curating UNITE datasets
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Hands on continues: Curating UNITE datasets
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee
15:00 – 17:00 Summing up

06.11 Departure

* We’ve arranged a bus to take you to Chemicum and back to hotel. The bus will leave at 8 am (days  I, II, and IV) from your hotel to Chemicum, and 5 pm from Chemicum to your hotel (days I-IV). Dinner is planned in the hotel at 6 pm (days I-IV).