Scratchpad Training Courses

The one-day 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).

No course registration fee is required but participants are responsible for their own travel and subsistence expenses when attending the Scratchpad course.

Courses in 2012:

  • 20.03.2012, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Scratchpad 2 update for current Scratchpad maintainers. Deadline registration: 20.02.2012. Closed.
  • 21.03.2012, Natural History Museum, London, Scratchpad 2 update for current Scratchpad maintainers. Deadline registration: 20.02.2012. Closed.
  • 23.05.2012, Natural History Museum, London, basic training course. Deadline registration: 23.03.2012. Closed.
  • 07.06.2012, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, basic training course*. Deadline registration: 11.05.2012.
  • 08.06.2012, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, advanced training course*. Deadline registration: 11.05.2012.
  • 12.06.2012, Natural History Museum, London, advanced training course. Deadline registration: 11.05.2012.
  • 26.06.2012, American University, Blagoevgrad (EHC6), basic training course**. Deadline registration: 18.05.2012.
  • 16.10.2012, Natural History Museum, London, basic training course. Deadline registration: 03.09.2012.

* Courses in SMNH, Stockholm are organised in conjunction with the "International Symposium on Flatworm Biology" held at the SMNH from 11-16 June 2012.
** Course in American University, Blagoevgrad is organised in conjuction with the "Sixth European Hemiptera Congress" held at the American University, Blagoevgrad from 25-29 June 2012. 

 

More courses in other localities will be offered later. If you have any suggestions on where and when to offer a training course, please let us know using the "Suggestions" web-form. 

 

To help us improve the training courses please fill out the feedback form after you have attended a course.

Application

Places on these courses will be limited so that participants can get individual attention (max. 15 trainees). Applications will therefore be screened using the following criteria:

  • to get as many institutions represented as possible;
  • 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 an associated conference (if applicable).

Selected participants will receive confirmation one week after the registration deadline.

 

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

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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.