[IPT] Functionality request: ADMIN checking data before GBIF registration

[Tim Robertson (GBIF)]

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 at gbif.org]
>> To: ipt at 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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> Hannu Saarenmaa
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