Overview

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Questions

• In what other ways does OTN support animal telemetry researchers?

Objectives

Beyond Telemetry Reporting

OTN serves the telemetry and broader scientific community through its primary purpose, as a data aggregation node, but that is not where the community support ends. In addition to curating and brokering interproject telemetry records, OTN has the following aspects:

OBIS publishing

OTN is an OBIS thematic node, tasked with curating and coordinating the publishing of aquatic animal tracking data. OTN adheres closely to Darwin Core standards throughout the data reporting process. OTN is involved with the training of OBIS members and development of tools and processes, through training workshops and code sprints.

DOI minting

OTN creates DOI data sets when requested by researchers. These DOIs primarily support publications and descriptive links are held on the OTN Data Portal publication data repository.

Study Halls

To reduce the stress of working in isolation, especially for early career researchers, OTN established a weekly ‘Study Hall’ session. Networking and collaborative problem solving in a virtual setting are hosted with a broad geographic attendance.

Workshops

OTN has hosted many workshops in the past which contain different code sets relating to telemetry analysis. Many of our Intro to R workshops are based upon this curriculum from The Carpentries.

• OTN’s Workshop Base Code
  • This is used to create custom workshops when requested.

Past custom workshops with repositories and webpages:

• GLATOS meeting workshop 2020

• DFO workshop 2020

• FACT workshop 2021

• IdeasOTN Telemetry Workshop Series 2020: code repository and YouTube recordings

Key Points

• OTN provides support to researchers in many ways