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Restructure ontology lecture

Suggestion: Switch the order (or delete altogether) for the following excersize

Lecture: lectures/ontologies-for-biological-data
Exercise: Find your ontology terms & connect the dots 2 Connect the dots to repository metadata fields

  • Select a suitable ENA checklist for your dataset and match your terms to one of the metadata fields.

Students have already identified their suitable checklists during the Lecture lectures/data-repositories-and-metadata.html#/exercise-metadata-standards

  • Write down the checklist identifier & metadata field.

What should the learning effect be for this? This is also "backwards" working, we want to teach them to first choose a repository, then choose a suitable checklist and afterwards start filling in the metadata. To promote this thinking, we should mirror the approach with our exercises. If we want them to "match" their freely chosen terms to a specific metadata field, we can also do this after the DataHarmonizer introduction.

  • Are your terms fitting the metadata field requirements (field format, restriction)?

This is also easier done with the DataHarmonizer instance, since you can click on the infoboxes and link-outs.

  • Does the info box tell you to use specific ontologies?
  • 10 more minutes

The additional 10 minutes feel too long, after just finishing the 5-10 minutes of the previous exercise.

Suggestions:

  1. Delete exercise
  2. Postpone the exercise to after DataHarmonizer introduction
  3. Do the short lecture on the env* metadata fields first lectures/ontologies-for-biological-data.html#/environmental-metadata-according-to-established-metadata-standards, then ask them to find a env* term instead