Date and time: Thursday, 19 October 2023, from 10:00 to 12:00 CEST

Location: Virtual training course

Speakers: Rossana Paciello and Daniele Bailo

Scope: The training offers an exploration of metadata and their critical role within the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) Research Infrastructure. It will focus on how metadata, combined with semantics, contributes to data interoperability and accessibility in a federated, web-service-based distributed infrastructure encompassing diverse scientific domains within EPOS.Description: The training will begin by elucidating the fundamental architecture of a 3 Tier distributed data infrastructure with a specific focus on the EPOS case, to give participants a clear understanding of the framework within which metadata operates. We will then delve into the metadata, covering its creation, curation, and application in describing heterogeneous assets such as datasets, web services, and software by means of extensions of well known standards like EPOS-DCAT-AP. We will illustrate the role of metadata for data integration, emphasizing the semantic aspects and their vital role in enhancing data interoperability. Practical examples will be provided to capture the basic features of a data integration system and how the combination of metadata, semantics and web-services contributes to a seamless user experience through a dedicated graphical user interface.

Open Invitation: This training is open to repository managers, catalogers, research infrastructure service operators, and anyone interested in metadata principles for data integration and accessibility.

We promote equality, diversity and inclusion under the advice of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Panel at all events organized as part of Geo-INQUIRE. In particular, we support registrations from women, early career scientists and people from widening countries.

Please register to participate. 

Date and time: Monday and Tuesday, 06 and 07 November 2023, from 9:00 to 11:00 CET

Location: Virtual training course

We have in program training and user testing for European Tsunami Risk Service(VA2-35-1)(https://eurotsunamirisk.org/) datasets: Empirical Risk Products – Fragility and Vulnerability Curves. This is a two-day virtual user-testing and training, hosted by University College London‘s Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, taking place on Monday and Tuesday, 06 and 07 November 2023, from 9:00 to 11:00 Central European Time (CET). This two-day course marks UN’s World Tsunami Awareness day on 5th of November. It is, however, to note that the skills and know-how covered by this course are applicable to any kind of natural hazard (e.g., seismic, flood, hurricane, etc).

Excellent science is enabled and enriched through making the relevant scientific research tools and results directly accessible to the scientific communities and the civil societies. The European Tsunami Risk Service (ETRiS) aims to collect, harmonize and make available tsunami risk related data (e.g., impact, damage, consequences), data products (e.g., fragility and vulnerability curves), software, and services in a way that they are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable by a broad user base. The European Tsunami Risk Service is part of the candidate Thematic Core Service for tsunami and is integrated into the Integrated Core Service Data Portal of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS).

The learning goals of this training are:

To get familiar with the underlying concepts of probabilistic hazard and risk analysis assuming a Homogenous Poisson Process;

To get an overview of empirical fragility assessment, uncertainty treatment, and fragility model selection using generalized regression models;

To learn how to derive vulnerability functions based on fragility curves and consequence models

To use data products such as fragility and vulnerability curves for probabilistic risk analysis;

ETRiS and Geo-INQUIRE welcome anyone interested in learning about these concepts and tools, particularly early-career students, researchers, and catastroph modellers.

We promote equality, diversity and inclusion under the advice of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Panel at all events organized as part of Geo-INQUIRE. In particular, we support registrations from women, early career scientists and people from widening countries.

The European Tsunami Risk Service (VA2-35-1)(https://eurotsunamirisk.org/) is a virtual access installation of the multi-risk products within the Horizon Europe Project Geo-INQUIRE funded by the European Commission under project number 101058518 within the HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01 call.

Agenda:

Monday, 06 November 2023, from 9:00 to 11:00 CET (F. Jalayer, UCL)

Introduction to:

Tuesday, 07 November 2023, from 9:00 to 11:00 CET (H. Ebrahimian, UNINA)

Interactive practical session using ETRIS software and datasets:

Contact:

f.jalayer@ucl.ac.uk

hossein.ebrahimianchelehkhaneh@unina.it