You can share your information hosted in Lepidoptera with GBIF.
GBIF prefers data owners to use their
Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT). This means that
you can install their IPT software to produce a resource in Darwin Core format that can be
harvested by GBIF. In addition to the actual data in your Lepidoptera installation, IPT allows you
to include a rich variety of metadata for GBIF.
Lepidoptera is able to produce a dump file containing all the data you own. Then you can import
this file into a IPT installation and choose which types of data you want to publish via
GBIF. Once you include all the metadata required by GBIF you have two choices in order to
expose your data taken from GBIF website:
By setting up a dynamic server software:
- Acquire hardware with a permanent Internet connection (a regular PC is sufficient).
- Install data publishing software. GBIF recommends the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT). You will need a web server such as Apache.
- Configure the software for your local data structure; this is the "mapping" process. Please follow the documentation of your chosen publishing software for this process.
- Register your service with GBIF and sign the GBIF Data Sharing Agreement.
Create an archive for your entire dataset:
- This scenario doesn't require a permanent Internet connection.
- You simply need to create a Darwin Core Archive, upload it to a repository (for example an IPT repository installed by your GBIF Participant Node, an institutional FTP or web server, or a service like Dropbox or the Internet Archive).
- You then just need to register the public URL for the storage location of your archive with GBIF.