Welcome to OTN's Node Manager Training Curriculum.

This OTN-hosted training will provide OTN-style Node Managers with an overview of the processes and tools to use to 1) ensure data is formatted correctly and free form errors, 2) ingest data into the Database Node and 3) create any relevant data products for members of their Node.

Attendees should be detail oriented, in-tune with their local telemetry communities, and not afraid to ask questions!

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General Node Manager Training Agenda

The next scheduled training is December 2nd - 6th, 2024 in Halifax, NS, at the Steele Ocean Sciences Building (OTN Headquarters). Invitees from new and existing nodes will explore the OTN Node curriculum with the OTNDC team. A draft agenda (subject to update or amendment) for the week's proceedings:

Day 1

Welcome

• Presentation: Introduction to Nodes (virtual connections available)
  • The Ocean Tracking Network's Data Centre, the Care of Animal Tracking Data, and the Database Node concept - Jon Pye
  • Data Policies and User Agreements
    • What your user agreement or data policy says you can and can't do w/ other folks' data in your Node
    • The common rules across our Agreements that allow Nodes to interoperate

• Lightning Introductions for attendees: Maximum of Three (3) slides describing each Node Manager's background, the community the Node serves, and how you're hosted/funded.

  • FACT - Danielle Morley (Florida FWC)
  • ACT - Kim Richie & Beth Bowers (Smithsonian)
  • PIRAT - Tom TinHan (UH)
  • PATH - Jon Walter (UC Davis)
  • MigraMar - Marta Cambra (U Costa Rica)
  • iTag - Claudia Friess & Hannah Gottesman (UFl + TAMU)
  • NPACT - Ryan Freedman & Ryan Logan (NOAA)
  • RAFT - Matt Walker (USGS)
  • ETN - Claudia Meneses (VLIZ)
  • ATN - Megan McKinzie (MBARI)

AM Break * Lightning Introductions cont? * OTN System, Structure, and Outputs * Schema structure and data workflows

• Software Setup and Installation
  • Python
  • Git
  • Nodebooks

Lunch

• The Data Loading Workflow

  • How data is received
  • Documenting data loading tasks
  • Accessing and querying your database

• Data Loading - Project Metadata

  • Practical - register metadata about new projects to the Node

Day 2

• Data Loading - Tagging Metadata
  • Practical - load records of deployed tags to a project in the Node
  • Validation - internally consistent data
  • Verification - data consistent across the database

AM Break

• Data Loading - Deployment Metadata
  • Practical - load records of deployed listening equipment to a project in the Node
  • Validation - internally consistent data
  • Verification - data consistent across the database

Lunch

• Detection Loading
  • Practical - load detection files from the listening instruments to a project in the Node
  • Validation - unedited files created by the instrument or client software for the instrument
  • Verification - proper formatting of serials, models, dates
  • Recorded Events data loaded from instrument
    • tilt, temperature, etc.

PM Break

• Detection Loading cont.
  • Verification - detections not previously loaded
  • Correction - time drift calculations
  • Verification - no missing metadata
  • Events - create receiver configuration record from Event data
    • listening scheme (OP, NexTrak, MAP-114, etc.)
  • Match detections to animal tags registered to any project within the Database Node

Day 3

• Moving Platforms
  • Loading Detections and Mobile Receiver Deployments

AM Break * Moving Platforms cont. * Gliders

Lunch * Moving Platforms cont. * Satellite-tagged animals * Manual Sampling

PM Break * Visualization Notebooks * Node summaries of counting statistics * Project-by-project reporting * Other

• Evening: Dinner - venue TBD

Day 4

• Fixing Data Errors
  • The DB-Fix Notebooks

AM Break

• Fixing Data Errors cont.

Lunch

• The Data Push
  • Rationale, Process, Schedule
  • Creating detection extracts for researchers

PM Break

• OTN All-Hands meeting

Day 5

• Supplementary Notebooks

  • scientificnamecheck
  • Registering new instrument models
  • vendor tag and sales sheets
  • Health reporting
  • Contacts updates

• Nodebook Development and Improvements

Lunch * Tandem real data loading w/ OTNDC or DB-Fix notebooks