1. VESTA-GIS/NatureSDIPlus workshop 2008-11-06 1 VESTA-GIS Training Framework Anders Östman University of Gävle, Sweden Anders.Ostman@hig.se

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3. 3 VESTA-GIS Training Framework Course catalogue Links to external e-learning courses Courses on the VESTA-GIS e-learning platform

4. VESTA-GIS/NatureSDIPlus workshop 2008-11-06 4 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

5. VESTA-GIS/NatureSDIPlus workshop 2008-11-06 5 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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8. 8 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