<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">1) My understanding is the GBIF API has been bombarded recently and they have now put in place a limit of the number of concurrent downloads to 3. The collectory currently attempts 10 download at a time - hence our problem. </div>
<div class="">We’ll try and push out an update to fix this very soon.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I’d like to just explain why this was rushed out.</div>This was a necessary step as <a href="http://GBIF.org">GBIF.org</a> was exposed to DOS attacks (often inadvertently) which was happening. In addition the GBIF R library now makes it trivial to download from GBIF and users can easily write a loop in code and trigger huge numbers of download which would block the system for others.</div><div><br></div><div>We’ll continue to tune the values by monitoring operations, and probably introduce higher per-user limits so we can e.g. increase the concurrency for known ALA accounts.</div><div><br></div><div>Please contact me if this causes any issue Nico.</div><div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">
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<div class="">On 10 Jun 2015, at 1:59 pm, Nicolas Noé <<a href="mailto:n.noe@biodiversity.be" class="">n.noe@biodiversity.be</a>> wrote:</div>
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I'm trying to set-up an experimental instance of ALA for Belgium. The idea is to present all data published by our belgian institutions, in order to give those institutations / collections / datasets more visibility.<br class="">
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What's the recommended way to load this data (everything at GBIF published by Belgian institutions). I used the "Add all GBIF resource for a country" from the Collectory admin interface, but<br class="">
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1) I encountered some errors. All datasets detected correctly, but only 10 are loaded - for the rest I get the message "Failed. Please check your authentication credentials are valid". The authentication credentials are indeed correct, since I only entered
once (so, also for the working dataset). When looking at my downloads on the GBIF website, I can see no track those "failed" datasets. Can I get debugging information ? Should I fill a bug report ? In the ala-collectory repository ? Or some other ?<br class="">
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2) Also, the /collectory/manage/gbifLoadCountry pages states that "This is a simple method of bootstrapping an installation with data provided by GBIF web services. This is not intended for long-term production use.". So maybe I should use another method to
load all the data for my country.<br class="">
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3) How are the (dataset) metadata populated when using this method ? It seems the basic metadata is there, but not much more. Should we do it by hand ? Should we write a tool to do it ? How about updates?<br class="">
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Thanks a lot!<br class="">
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