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mTeSS-X: Scaling training portal federation for RIs through Multi-tenanting and Exchange

To overcome fragmentation of training resources across Research Infrastructures (RIs) and the Science Clusters, the mTeSS-X project aims to enhance the existing ELIXIR TeSS platform — to build an aggregator for training portals like ELIXIR TeSS and PaNOSC training portals — to natively support federation.

Such a fully-featured open-source multi-tenanted training platform is expected to be an 
innovation for building a federation of portals to:

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  <li> help break down barriers between thematic communities,</li>
  <li> promote a more cohesive European research community, </li>
  <li> and promote FAIR and open training.</li>
 </ul>

The project strives to support the federation of training catalogues using a multi-tenancy approach, and enabling cross-instance content exchange. This will allow RIs and their communities to maintain tailored catalogues with distinct identities, while simultaneously benefiting from a shared global pool of resources.

• View the project page on the OSCARS website

Challenge

Fragmentation of resources hampers the reuse of valuable training materials and limits the dissemination of events and learning pathways.
The main challenges of the project are i) to enable the federation of catalogues, ii) support cross-discipline training resource exchange, and iii) celebrate and maintain catalogue unique identity.

Solution

mTeSS-X will extend the TeSS platform by introducing multi-tenancy, allowing multiple communities to maintain distinct training catalogues within a shared instance, while preserving their individual identities.
It will also implement TeSS-X plugins to facilitate seamless content exchange between catalogues implemented as separate instances.

Scientific Impact

By fostering the federation of interoperable training catalogues, mTeSS-X will significantly enhance the findability, accessibility, and reuse of high-quality training resources (FAIR principles).

Research domains

Life sciences, Photon/neutron sources-based experimental research

Partners

Supporters

ALBA Synchrotron, Bioconductor, BioFAIR, ELIXIR Belgium, ELIXIR Europe, Ersilia, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) Hub Matter, OLS

Project team members

Carole Goble (Principle Investigator, The University of Manchester), Oliver Knodel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Finn Bacall (The University of Manchester), Phil Reed (The University of Manchester), Munazah Andrabi (The University of Manchester), Maria Doyle (University of Limerick), Hedi Peterson (TARTU ULIKOOL)