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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