Explora
Explora is a platform that was developed to provide a one-stop shop for trainers and trainees to discover online information and content, including training materials, events and interactive tutorials. For training providers, Explora provides opportunities to promote training events and news, and to contribute to a growing catalogue of materials; for trainers, the portal offers an environment for sharing materials and event information; for trainees, it offers a convenient gateway via which to identify relevant training events and resources, and to perform specific, guided analysis tasks via customised training workflows.
TeSS was originally developed as part of ELIXIR, Europe's distributed infrastructure for life-science data. One of the goals of ELIXIR is to train research scientists to better use available computational infrastructures to address critical research questions. This requires access both to face-to-face training opportunities and to disparate training materials and resources, currently dispersed across Europe.
Events
Events in Explora are defined as face-to-face or online training opportunities that have set start and end times. These primarily take the form of workshops, courses, webinars, etc.; but Explora also collects information about conferences, meetings and hackathons, as these may also provide opportunities for learning.
Explora collects event information from 7 content providers, supplementing the data with geolocation information found using Nominatim.
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Subscribe
Explora also provides a subscription feature to help users to stay informed about courses, workshops and conferences of interest to them. The service may be customised by selecting the relevant filters, and initiated via the subscribe button. Users may choose to receive email notifications about upcoming events, or have them automatically added to their preferred calendar application.
Any event search can be subscribed to. Simply go to the events search page and after chosing search terms and/or the filters you would like, click on the "Subscribe" button to get email alerts, or to track events in your calendar application.
The subscriptions manager page may be used to change the frequency of, or to remove, subscriptions.