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VESTA-GIS Training Framework

Anders Östman

University of Gävle, Sweden

Anders.Ostman@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