[IPT] VASCAN metadata can now be downloaded as RTF

[Bruno Danis]

Hi Peter,
Hi all,

this is a really cool feature! this will definitely motivate a lot of people to publish data!

cheers,

Bruno

On 01 Jun 2011, at 22:57, Peter Desmet wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I was intrigued by GBIF's announcement regarding publishing
> biodiversity data (http://bit.ly/m8hR6U), so I updated our IPT
> (http://ipt.canadensys.net) to 2.0.2 and republished our dataset
> (http://ipt.canadensys.net/resource.do?r=vascan). Users can now export
> the Database of Vascular Plants of Canada metadata as RTF
> (http://ipt.canadensys.net/rtf.do?r=vascan) and we could even submit
> this as a data paper to a Pensoft journal. Really cool and very easy!
> 
> Good job IPT team!
> 
> Peter
> 
> PS: When I find some time, I'm going to dig a bit deeper in the RTF
> file and see how the EML->RTF transition went.
> 
> -- 
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Dr Bruno Danis

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