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Scratchpad Training Courses

The courses are intended to help current and prospective Scratchpad owners develop their site building skills. You will be given the opportunity to learn best practice and gain a better understanding of what the Scratchpads can do for you and your research community. The focus of the basic course lies on adding various kinds of data, on generating taxon pages and on communication with other users. Our goal is to provide a taste of what the sites can do, and allow you to independently explore the site after the event. The focus of the advanced course lies on the import of data, creating of custom content types and views, and managing of projects (groups).

The Scratchpad team is planning the following training courses in 2010:

Application

Places on these courses will be limited to about 8-12 so that participants can get individual attention. Applications will therefore be screened using the following criteria:

  • to get as many institutions represented as possible, we will default to one participant per institution (except for NHM internal courses);
  • to those who are already managing a Scratchpad or say that they intend to do so: we expect some familiarity before the course starts;
  • some level of IT competence, so that the concepts we're discussing are not new to the participants;
  • those who are registered with the associated conference.

Training manuals and other training files are available for self training if you don't have the opportunity to participate in a course.

Please explain why you would like to attend a Scratchpad training course, and what skills you would expect to gain by attending.

Those who are not currently maintainers will be expected to have explored the Scratchpad Sandbox. Participants in the advanced course should maintain a Scratchpad and know how to add various data (pages, images, bibliographic citations, locations & specimens) and how to deal with the basic administration of their Scratchpad.