About the Workshop
Hosted in collaboration with EMODnet Biology and OceanTraining.eu, this three-day workshop is tailored to the DTO-BioFlow Data Grants Holders—research teams working on biological datasets that are key to understanding and protecting marine ecosystems.
Held at the Zamansky Tower (24th floor, Room 2400), Sorbonne Université, in the heart of Paris, the workshop combines hands-on training with opportunities for knowledge exchange among peers and experts. Online participation is also available.
What to Expect
Participants will:
- Present their ongoing marine biodiversity data projects
- Engage in expert-led sessions on:
- FAIR data principles and why they matter
- The Darwin Core standard for biodiversity data
- Data transformation workflows and quality control practices
- Publishing data using the Integrated
- Publishing Toolkit (IPT) Value standardisation,
- DwC eMoF tables, metadata creation, and automation tools.
Why It Matters
The workshop aims to empower researchers to contribute high-quality, standardised, and interoperable data to international repositories. This supports the broader mission of making marine biodiversity data FAIR—Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable—and directly contributes to the success of the DTO-BioFlow project and its vision for a Digital Twin Ocean.
Agenda
Day 1: 3 June 2025 Tuesday, 09:00 – 17:00 CET
Room: Meeting Room n. 2400 - Online participation is possible (link and password will be shared with the participants).
09:00 – 09:20 | Registration & networking coffee |
| 09:20 – 09:25 | Welcome and overview of data training agenda |
09:25 – 09:40 | Introduction on the DTO-BioFlow project |
09:40 – 10:30 | Short presentations from the Grant Holders regarding their projects (5 min. each) |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Introduction to EMODnet Biology and EurOBIS |
| 11:20 – 12:00 | FAIR data, why and how? |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Good practices for data capture in spreadsheets |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch / Interviews with the selected grant holders |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Demonstration of good practices for data capture |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Darwin Core |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Hands-on data transformation |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 16:45 | Hands-on data transformation |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Wrap up Day 1 |
Social Dinner
| 19:30 | Social dinner Restaurant "Chez Gladines" 44 Bd Saint-Germain, 75005 Paris, France |
Day 2: 4 June 2025 Tuesday, 09:00 – 17:00 CET
Room: Meeting Room n. 2400 - Online participation is possible (link and password will be shared with the participants).
09:00 – 09:30 | Value standardisation |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | DwC eMoF table for measurements or facts |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Demonstration of transformation to Darwin Core |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Hands-on data transformation |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch / Interviews with the selected grant holders |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Hands-on data transformation |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 16:45 | Hands-on data transformation |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Wrap up Day 2 |
Day 3: 5 June 2025 Tuesday, 09:00 – 17:00 CET
Room: Meeting Room n. 2400 - Online participation is possible (link and password will be shared with the participants).
| 09:00 – 09:20 | Metadata |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | Publishing data using the IPT |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Quality Control |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Automation |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Hands-on data transformation, IPT and QC |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch / Interviews with the selected grant holders |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Hands-on data transformation, IPT and QC |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Hands-on data transformation, IPT and QC |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Wrap up Day 3 |
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