OTGA/OBIS Training Course: OBIS Nodes Train the Trainers

Training the OBIS nodes and the trainers (at the OBIS nodes and OceanTeacher regional training centres) was considered a top priority by the OBIS Steering Committee. This training was supported by several of the EurOBIS Data Management staff people (and hence the LifeWatch VLIZ team) and included the following: The application of ratified Darwin Core terms OBIS-ENV-DATA standard (combining sampling events, occurrences, abiotic & biotic measurements and sampling facts) QC tools (including the OBIS tools R package) Data publication (IPT), including metadata management Data access and visualization