5.6 Upskilling curriculum: modular break-up and a checklist

5.6.1 Modular break-up

The figure below summarises the tentative division of the curriculum topics into training blocks and user levels. The organisers of the upskilling are advised to view it as a starting point for their own module compilation rather than a definitive prescription.

Figure 1: Overview of the modular break-up of the curriculum

5.6.1 Curriculum check-list

The check-list presents an overview of training blocks, sections and topics presented above. It offers trainers and trainees the possibility to identify the training needs and combine suitable topics into new training modules.

Suggested training topics	Curriculum chapter	Training checklist
Publishing systems and their features	§5.1
1. Introduction to common publishing systems
2. Advanced use of publishing systems
Introduction to the advanced use
Update and security features of publishing systems
Automating migration to a dedicated publishing system
3. XML publishing workflows
Metadata I: quality through standards	§5.2
1. Introduction to metadata
2. Metadata standards
Dublin Core (simple and qualified)
MARC family (MARC21 and MARC XML)
MODS XML
ONIX XML
JATS XML and TEI XMl header
KBART files
OpenAire guidelines
Europeana Data model
Datacite metadata schema
3. Metadata harvesting, depositing and export
OAI-PMH: protocol and infrastructure
SWORD protocol
Mass metadata export
4. Controlled vocabularies
Introduction to controlled vocabularies
COAR Resource Types Vocabulary
Metadata II: identifiers	§5.3
1. Introduction to identifiers: IDs, PIDs and metadata standards
2. Identifier systems
5.4 Metadata III: licensing, OA and self-archiving policy	§5.4
1. Introduction to open access models and license types
Creative Commons, MIT license, GNU
Green, Gold and Diamond OA
2. Journal’s self-archiving policy
3. Setting up the publishing system:
Licenses and self-archiving policy in metadata.
Licenses and self-archiving policy in content data (XML, HTML, PDF)
Content accessibility	§5.5
1. Content provisioning
XML: JATS, ONIX, TEI
PDF
HTML: website features and SEO
Citations in metadata and content data
Research data
Version control
2. Content harvesting and indexing
OAI-PMH protocol and infrastructure
Introduction to indexing services and their requirements
Website optimization for indexing
3. Content depositing and export
Repositories and journal hosting services
Depositing protocols: SWORD
Export format types: CSV (DC), JSON, XML (JATS, ONIX)
4. Content long-term archiving
Archiving services

Table 20: Check-list with topics for planned trainings