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Data Publication with IPT

Data Publication with IPT. State of Data Publishing. Is DiGIR Legacy?. No longer in development Incompatible with newer versions of PHP Network portals and providers still using. Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT).

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Data Publication with IPT

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  1. Data Publication with IPT

  2. State of Data Publishing

  3. Is DiGIR Legacy? • No longer in development • Incompatible with newer versions of PHP • Network portals and providers still using

  4. Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) An open source Java web application used to connect and serve 3 types of biodiversity data; Primary occurrence (distribution of organisms) Species names information General resource metadata Data is uploaded to an embedded database from a source database or text files. Data is made publicly available on the GBIF distributed network.

  5. IPT Features Multilingual web application Role-based user management Vocabularies to limit terms Extensions for managing other data types Basic data qualitychecking Assignment / management of Globally Unique Identifiers Searchable data with a mapping server and navigational trees. Ability to publish a Darwin Core archive

  6. IPT User Interface

  7. University of Kansas DiGIR Portal

  8. University of Kansas  IPT Instance • Test • http://129.237.201.204:8080/ipt • Production • http://ipt.nhm.ku.edu:8180/ipt

  9. University of Kansas  IPT Test Instance

  10. University of Kansas  IPT Test Instance

  11. University of Kansas  IPT Test Instance

  12. Challenges • Technical knowledge of hardware to configure for optimum performance. • Lack of documentation to make configuration changes. • Geoserver overhead. • Exporting data from collection management systems (DwC format, mapping) • Lack of documentation on what data is required for user interface to function properly. • Technical skills required to upload data. • Trying to implement a tool still under development. • No DiGIR ouput.

  13. IPT Tentative Roadmap • The current publically accessible version of the IPT is Release Candidate (RC) 3. • Work is ongoing to produce RC4.   • It has been determined (from feedback) that IPT needs more substantial changes to meet expectations.   • the server capacity necessary to install and operate the current IPT is a barrier to adoption • the lack of intuitiveness of the user interface has been criticized • the software has become ‘bloated’ and requires housekeeping to ensure consistency and stability. • To address this, in parallel to the work for RC4, a large refactoring effort has been initiated and is targeted at the RC5 release.

  14. IPT Tentative Roadmap • The RC5 release will be made to the public following a focused testing phase. • Following community feedback there will be an RC6, which will only address issues surfaced in RC5, prior to a 1.0 General Availability (GA) release.  

  15. Discussion for the community • What does the community need in the front-end web application? • Is the TAPIR interface within IPT a real requirement?

  16. IPT-related resources • IPT code site • http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit • IPT Mailing list •          http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/ipt

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