Challenge #1: Best practices catalogue for EBAG (eco-, bio-, agro-, geo-) distance education, mid-term report

The report summarizes the outputs achieved in Challenge #1 of the Covid-19 INSPIRE Hackathon during the first part of the event.

  • Challenge #1 Shared Workspace (complete information about activities in the challenge)
  • The final goals of the challenge:
    • Main goal:
      • To develop the advanced catalogue of educational materials (best practices, educational documents, application, services, other resources…) suitable for remote teaching/learning in the EBAG domain.
    • Secondary goals
      • To present results in the events organized in the hackathon.
      • To create an active group of co-workers (developers, testers, data providers, feedback providers, etc.).
      • To implement advanced techniques (such as searching similarities through clusters, links to controlled vocabularies, etc.) to enrich the catalogue.
      • To interconnected with contemporary trends such as Responsible Research and Innovation, FAIR data (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability), Linked Open Data or international standards.
      • To figure out and arrange the sustainability of the solution.
  • Brainstorming session on Jamboard
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  • Catalogue for EBAG Education
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  • Table with data – the current version contains 65 items from 3 providers (Czechia, Tunisia)
  • The data model of the catalogue based on Dublin Core and other standards, respecting Linked Open Data approach and Responsible Research and Innovation principles
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Initial attempts with categorized data (metadata) clustering for searching homogeneities and similarities

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