Events, training materials and integration in TeSS

Niall Beard

Bioschemas Hackathon, Rothamsted Research Centre

9th November 2016

Quick TeSS Overview

• Aggregation and registration of training events and materials

• Tools to filter, search, and discover• Users can organize into packages and training workflows• Interlinking with other ELIXIR registries • ELIXIR Node ‘shop window’ view• https://tess.elixir-uk.org

Aggregation – Not a very API situation

HTML scraper

• Difficult to write. • - Every site is unique• - Some have more treacherous HTML • Very susceptible to change• - Fixing is re-implementing. • - Build up of technical debt

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Mark up using schema.org – Google Markup Helper

Mark up using schema.org –Google Markup Helper

Tools to parse

Tools to parse

Store and display in TeSS

Distributed Via TeSS and via widgets embedded in pages

Exposed via Widgets

Passes to

Mark up types

• HTML By hand• CMS Extensions – Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress• Github Pages. YAML file -> JSON-LD • Framework Extensions – Ruby on Rails, Django

Common Issues