<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Dear all,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Please accept my apologies for cross posting this, but in case you were not on the previous mailing list, I would like to draw your attention to the communication sent below.</span></div><div>We will shortly be revising all the issues in the code site to reflect the status of the revised version. An IPT user group is being set up today on <a href="http://community.gbif.org">http://community.gbif.org</a> to discuss the IPT, in addition to this mailing list. </div><div><br></div><div>Please do contact me for any clarifications you need.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Many thanks,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Tim</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div>[FOR INFORMATION]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Dear Node Managers and Data Publishers,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">The objective of this communication is to update you on the current</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">situation of the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT). The IPT is a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">tool providing publishing capabilities for primary biodiversity</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">occurrence data, taxonomic checklists and the associated metadata for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">these resource types.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Since its first introduction in March 2009, the IPT has been used with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">some success by a limited number of users to publish primary</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">biodiversity data into the GBIF network, along with descriptive metadata</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">at the dataset level.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">The GBIF Secretariat (GBIFS) has solicited and received a vast amount of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">feedback during the first year of the IPT use, and would like to thank</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">all those who provided this. The feedback received overwhelmingly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">confirms that the concept of the IPT is sound. However, feedback has</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">also made it clear that it is over-specified for the majority of user</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">needs, is not yet sufficiently robust, is too slow in operation, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">(due to the excessive functionality) has high server requirements</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">creating a barrier for many to adopt and use it. In addition, the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">feedback has made it clear that our communications surrounding the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">status of the IPT releases have been too infrequent and unclear</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">concerning which release candidate we were offering and what</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">functionalities this release candidate would include or not include, as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">per user needs/expectations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Based upon the extensive feedback GBIFS has revised our planned</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">development roadmap for the IPT and are currently performing a major</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">refactoring effort to:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Reduce the server requirements significantly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Increase the data import performance by removing the embedded </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">database</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Remove the dependency on heavy libraries and tools such as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Geoserver</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Remove all data interfaces that are not necessary for data </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">publication through GBIF</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Improve the robustness of the tool</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">When complete, the refactored IPT will offer through an intuitive</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">interface:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Authoring of metadata according to the GBIF metadata profile</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Import and mapping of checklist and occurrence data either from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">file upload or by connection of a database</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Registration to and publication onto the GBIF network</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Importing and mapping of data to the DarwinCore, and DarwinCore </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">extensions</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Output formats of EML (2.1.0) metadata and DarwinCore Archive</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Improved customisation options for the "About this IPT"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Improved GBIF Registry integration</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Improved DarwinCore extension and vocabulary organization</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Improved management of the organisations to which the IPT and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">resources are related, to enable co-hosting capabilities</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Enhanced dataset metadata authoring</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Whilst this is a reduction in existing functionality this has been</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">deemed necessary to ensure the IPT is meeting the core requirements as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">expressed by the user community. The following features will be removed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">and only reintroduced if necessary through consultation with the IPT</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">community:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* TAPIR interface</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* TCS output format</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* Search and browse web interface </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">* OGC web services</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">All IPT development efforts are now focused on this revised roadmap, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">it is anticipated that early testing of the new codebase will commence</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">in October 2010 with the involvement of willing Nodes. The release of a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">fully stable IPT is targeted for the end of 2010. However, this will</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">only occur if the testing community is satisfied that the product is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">'release-ready' together with the required user manual and technical</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">documentation. Should that not be the case, as it may take more time to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">implement and test the improvements outlined above, you will be informed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">as soon as possible.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Further developments of the IPT beyond this release will only be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">implemented after a further scoping with the GBIF community. An area</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">for further IPT discussion will be set up on the GBIF community website</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://community.gbif.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://community.gbif.org</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">If you have any questions or would like to know more about the GBIF IPT</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">and/or revised process, feel free to contact:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Tim Robertson</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">GBIF Information Systems Architect</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><a href="mailto:trobertson@gbif.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">trobertson@gbif.org</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">With best regards,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">Tim Robertson</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; ">GBIF Secretariat</span></body></html>