Summer Internship Courses 2020  

2020 dkNET Summer of Data Student Internship Program Courses

Program Duration

June 22, 2020 - July 31, 2020

Course Syllabus

Welcome to the 2020 dkNET Summer of Data Student Internship Program. The goal of this program is to provide students with an opportunity to utilize the dkNET tools and resources in research projects, to learn the basics of good data management for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data. Students will receive hands-on training on how to use dkNET to find and evaluate research resources, how to use online data and tools to develop hypotheses to enhance their own projects as well as how to learn the best practices in data management for robust and reproducible research.

In the first week of the program, we will have an online bootcamp including an orientation and classes daily at 10:00am - 12:00pm PDT from June 22, 2020 to June 29, 2020. At the orientation, we will give a brief introduction of the summer program, the expectations, approaches and the topics to be covered in the program. During the classes, students will learn about dkNET services and tools, including Resource Reports, Discovery Portal, Authentication Reports, Hypothesis Center (Signaling Pathways Project), FAIR data, data management, and other useful tools such as protocols.io. Students will then have a hands-on session to practice and discuss how these tools might be used in their projects.

From Week 2 to 6, there will be five weekly discussion sessions. Students will present their project activities and participate in discussion with other students and the dkNET team.

A final student project presentation will be held online on July 24, 2020 and July 31, 2020 at 10:00am -12:00pm PDT. Students will present their work and provide feedback on their experience, i.e., what did they find useful and not useful? A final standard report (ca. 2 pages in length) and a program survey are also due at the end of the program.

Students are required to attend bootcamp and all discussion sessions. The lectures (June 22: 10am - 12pm PDT, June 23-26: 10am - 11am PDT, July 1: 10am - 11am PDT) are open to students' Principal Investigators and laboratory members.

Questions about the program should be directed to: Dr. Ko-Wei Lin (koweilin@ucsd.edu)

Dial-in information

• Bootcamp (students are required to attend): please check your email

• Discussion sessions and final project presentations (students are required to attend): please check your email

The main software for joining dkNET live meeting is Zoom. If it is your first time using Zoom, please click the dial-in information for orientation and complete the pre-registration. You will be directed to download the Zoom software, and you only have to download the Zoom software once during the program. However, you need to register each course before you join the webinar.

A computer or laptop with an internet connection, speaker, microphone, and a webcam is required for using Zoom (system requirements for PC, Mac, and Linux)

Before first course

Before our first course (Monday, June 22, 2020), please create the following accounts if you don't have one yet:

1. Create a dkNET account (https://dknet.org/join)

2. Create an ORCID account (https://orcid.org/register)

3. Create a protocols.io account (https://www.protocols.io/create)

4. Create a hypothes.is account (https://hypothes.is/signup)

5. Accept the following invitations: 

   a. Slack (https://dknet.slack.com) #summer-program-2020

   b. Google shared folder

   c. Hypothes.is group - dkNET Summer Program 2020

Course Schedule