I missed this one in my previous response,

This relates to the endorsement model employed in GBIF.  Currently a Node is required to endorse an Institution, after which any resources made available through that institution are automatically picked up and indexed in the global portal.

This discussion actually goes beyond the scope of the IPT, and into the Registry as Dag and Hannu hint at.  For the purposes of the IPT, I believe the proposed functionality of "a) The preference would be to allow the ADMIN to provide Registration privileges to individual MANAGERS " would satisfy the level of control needed in an IPT installation, but that we need to consider the cascading endorsement model further in the registry - e.g. when a node manager endorses an Institution, should subsequent datasets be automatically detected and harvested, or should a Node manager be offered that fine grained control.

If my understanding above captures this correctly, could I please propose that the IPT ADMIN/MANAGER level control is resolved, but this requirement be captured for the Registry development?  Your advice on this is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Tim




On Sep 15, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Hannu Saarenmaa wrote:

Both of these suggestions will probably work fine. But controlling things at the registry as Dag suggest might be more powerful.  I just want to be able to check in advance what resources gets listed on Data Portal for our institution.  Blocking publishing at IPT may not achieve this, if there are multiple servers, like there is.

Hannu

On 2010-09-15 10:56, Dag Terje Filip Endresen wrote:
Hi Tim and Hannu,

Would it be useful to register this setting for the data provider to the GBRDS - so that the NODE can set a "default" permission that will allow the data provider to install an independent IPT instance to publish from if they wish to. So that the data hosting center can host datasets from distributed data providers that themselves may want to "upgrade" to have their own IPT later on. The NODE admin could thus get an overview of resources endorsed by the NODE from the GBRDS...?

Cheers
Dag

From: Tim Robertson (GBIF) [mailto:trobertson@gbif.org]
To: ipt@lists.gbif.org
Sent: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:43:28 +0200
Subject: [IPT] Functionality request: ADMIN checking data before GBIF registration

Hi all,

Hannu has raised a request for the following to be satisfied by the IPT:
"- Publishing a resource must be accepted by the owner of the 
provider. It has happened that a test user publishes something odd 
which goes all the way to the data portal without nobody controlling 
it."

This is a contradiction to the requests of others, and specifically 
those wishing to promote basic "data hosting centers", who request 
that a data MANAGER should be able to work autonomously.

After discussion with the developers the proposal is to implement the 
following, which we hope satisfies both requirements:
In the Administration section, an ADMIN can choose to enable or 
disable the ability for MANAGERS to register resources with GBIF. By 
default MANAGERS can register a resource, but an ADMIN can disable 
this through this check box.

If anyone has any concerns or comments on this approach, please can 
you raise them on this list?

Many thanks,
Tim






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