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Registering a Data Provider

If you have a data provider up and running, it is not very useful unless users know about it. Therefore, GBIF offers a registry where you can advertise your data and services. Think of it as the one global marketplace of shared biodiversity information that integrates data within and across domains. The registry is based on UDDI technology from Systinet.

There are two ways of registering a data provider. One possibility is to use the UDDI client application that is packaged with the PHP provider. Registration is available through a button on the left-hand-side panel of the administration part of the PHP provider.
The other alternative is a WEB-based form on GBIF web site at http://www.gbif.org/DataProviders/registerme. If you are using the Python DiGIR provider or the BioCASe provider that is your only possibility. However, providers in the registry of the BioCASe project are included automatically in the GBIF registry.

Registration requires agreeing on GBIF Data Sharing Agreement and also understanding the GBIF Data Use Agreement. These are very broad declarations of some common principles and not contractual documents under any particular legislation.

After your registration, GBIF Helpdesk will check your installation. As a data quality measure, GBIF will contact the relevant GBIF Participant Node, which you can identify during the registration, and ask for their endorsement. If you are part of a thematic network, you may also indicate that in the registration.

After that, you are included in the list of GBIF data providers, and GBIF's search engine will index every record in the data that you have shared.

You may also register a test server without the need to seek endorsement by a GBIF Participant. Such servers are available in the registry for test portals and special thematic networks that you may belong to. If you see your provider in the GBIF test search portal, you know that it is basically working.