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