VESTA-GIS Training Framework

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VESTA-GIS Training Framework

• Anders Östman
• University of Gävle, Sweden
• Anders.Ostman_at_hig.se

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VESTA-GIS Training Framework

• Course catalogue
• Links to external e-learning courses
• Courses on the VESTA-GIS e-learning platform

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Training Catalogue

• Metadata about courses and training packages
  stored in a database
• Basic information
• Course title, Language, Provider, Duration,
  Level, Delivery format, Keywords
• Other searchable information
• Course type, cost, certificate, intended audience
• Course details
• Location, didactic approach, fee, overview,
  training units, prerequisites etc
• Based on MySQL DBMS (open source)
• Multilingual support

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Use cases for catalogue services

• A potential trainee wants to find information
  about a course and how to enrol
• A course provider enters metadata
• A course provider assembles courses into a
  training package (training package builder)
• Updating and cleaning by the database
  administrator

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Time schedule

• Survey of existing courses (Done)
• More than 50 courses known
• Specifications of metadata elements (Done)
• Catalogue version 1.0 for internal testing by
  core partners
• Inquiry for course metadata (December 2008)
• Catalogue version 1.1 for entire partnership
  (search functions) in Q1 2009