GBIF IPT (Global Biodiversity Information Facility Integrated Publishing Toolkit)

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility Integrated Publishing Toolkit (GBIF IPT) is an open source, Java-based web application that connects and serves three types of biodiversity data: taxon primary occurrence data, taxon checklists and general resource metadata. The data registered in a GBIF IPT instance is connected to the GBIF distributed network and made available for public consultation and use.

The IPT tool can be used in two forms:

1) As a cloud user, through one of its instances (at GBIF http://ipt.gbif.org/ or at the National Biological Information Infrastructure at: http://nbii-ipt.ornl.gov/ipt)

2) An instance of the IPT tool can be deployed locally as a service, requiring a bit of technical expertise ( a war file deploys as a service, requires a servlet container such as Tomcat) and a series of other requirements.