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  Training Workshop I: Data Management for Scientific data (02/07/2008 - 04/07/2008) - pictures

• Location: Innovocean Site, Wandelaarkaai 7, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium (The courses take place in the training facilities of the UNESCO IOC’s International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), located in the same building as the Flanders Marine Institute in Oostend.)
• Teachers: Simon Claus & Klaas Deneudt
• Day I: Wednesday, 02 of July, 2008

• 14.00 – 14.30: Welcome and presentation of VLIZ and the Innovocean Site; Aim of the workshop
• 14.30 – 16.00: General principles of data management (Presentation)
• Data and metadata (discovery metadata, ...)
• Data formats and exchange (International formats, data exchange...)
• Data processes
• From rawdata to information
• Data treatment: archiving, documenting, integrating..
  • Quality Control
  • Observation data
• 16.00 – 16.30: Coffee
• 16.30 – 18.00: Data Documenting and Archiving (Presentations & Demonstration)
  • Objectives (short term, long term)
  • Approach
  • Marine Data Archive (MDA) demonstration
• Day II: Thursday, 03 of July, 2008
• 09.00 – 10.30: Use of Data management systems (Part I)
  • Use of spreadsheets or relational databases
  • Use of spreadsheets
  • Limitations & benefits
• 10.30 – 11.00: Coffee
• 11.00 – 12.30: Use of Data management systems (Part II)
  • Use of relational database
  • Limitations & benefits
  • Principles: entities, attributes, relationships
  • Tables, fields, links, queries, forms, reports
  • Hands-on exercises on relational database (Breakout groups)
• 12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
• 13.30 – 15.00: Summarizing: Checklist - Guidelines
• 15.00 – 15.30: Coffee
• 15.30 – 17.00: Managing your own data (Part I):
• Data from the NIOO trainees (Breakout groups)
• 17.00 – 19.30: A taste of the Flemish hospitality: Reception offered by VLIZ
• Day III: Friday, 04 of July, 2008
• 09.00 – 09.45: Data Integration examples: National and International Examples with a focus on Marine Ecology and Biodiversity (Presentation)
• 09.45 – 10.30: Open repositories, Publishing data and data citation. Examples from the Marine Scientific Community. (Presentation)
• 10.30 – 11.00: Coffee
• 11.00 – 12.30: Managing your own data (Part II):
  • Data from the NIOO trainees (Breakout groups)
• 12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
• CLOSURE