Dear Lyubo,
I'll provide a little background before answering your question.
The IPT is an installable software tool that allows users to author metadata, map databases or uploaded text files to the Darwin Core standard, install extensions and vocabularies to allow for richer content and ultimately register datasets for publication and sharing through GBIF. At the GBIF secretariat we run a demonstration installation for evaluation purposes only, and no content ever goes onto the GBIF network through that installation. Periodically all content is deleted. IPT operators undertake the responsibility of running an internet server which should be maintained - e.g. it should remain online and be addressable. We have added, and with Pensoft are in the process of testing, the rich text format (RTF) output format to the IPT so that any dataset descriptive data (e.g. metadata) can be downloaded from any IPT (version 2.0.2+) and then go through the journal peer review process.
Therefore users have the following options, and I hope this answers your question:
a) Install and run an IPT, registering it with GBIF b) Use an account on the http://ipt.pensoft.net installation (seems offline now though?) c) Approach an existing IPT operator and seek to host data through them
Users will not use the GBIF installation other than for demonstration purposes as we do not host content at the secretariat.
This of course is following the 2.0.2 release, which is still being tested.
I hope this helps. Best wishes, Tim
On Apr 26, 2011, at 4:04 PM, info@pensoft.net wrote:
Dear Tim,
In our Data Publishing Guidelines we intend to point out http://ipt.pensoft.net as a venue for our authors to upload their datasets. Will there be a possibility to register/login in each locally installed IPT individually? Or, the user should register/login to the GBIF IPT and then use that account?
The background of my question is: what kind of instruction in this respect should we address to our authors who want to publish data through IPT?
Best regards, Lyubo
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