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The attached message has been automatically discarded. From: "Mihail-Constantin Carausu" MCCarausu@snm.ku.dk Date: September 15, 2010 12:03:50 GMT+02:00 To: "Tim Robertson (GBIF)" trobertson@gbif.org, ipt@lists.gbif.org Subject: RE: [IPT] Functionality request: ADMIN checking data before GBIFregistration

Dear Tim

I think the development team's mentioned approach is a workable solution to cover both requirements at this stage. However, I think Hannu (and me) had in mind a kind of "Basket of approvals"-alike functionality in the Admin's (owner of the provider) administration section side: When a Manager has been published a dataset through the IPT, this will automatically trigger a request for approval or submits an yes/no event in the Admin's administration section. The Admin must finally active interfere and approve the dataset publication (e.g. by checking an "Approved" check box in the basket of approvals list with events/datasets in the administration section) at the absolute latest stage (e.g. when GBIF just needs to start to index it, or something like that). Without this final approval the dataset will still be published and visible through the IPT but not visible/searchable on the GBIF data portal. This approach is not necessarily in contradiction with the Manager's ability to autonomously publish datasets within the IPT, only it puts this ability always under control from the central administration section when the dataset has to go to the GBIF data portal. I think both solutions/approaches have obvious advantages and disadvantages while none of them provides a 100% protection against publishing something odd by a (test) user. I have a little question regarding the development team's proposed solutions: is it not possible for the central Admin to enable the publishing ability for some "trusted" managers and disable this for others inside the same instance of the IPT.

Now I saw Hannu's new message just arrived, sorry for eventually unsynchronized double-crossing messages, but I will send this anyhow.

Best regards, Mihail

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Mihail Carausu MSc.Eng., Informatics Manager Danish Biodiversity Information Facility (DanBIF)

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-----Original Message----- From: ipt-bounces@lists.gbif.org [mailto:ipt-bounces@lists.gbif.org] On Behalf Of Tim Robertson (GBIF) Sent: 15. september 2010 09:43 To: ipt@lists.gbif.org Subject: [IPT] Functionality request: ADMIN checking data before GBIFregistration

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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