IPT: The Integrated Publishing Toolkit

A free, open source software tool used to publish and share biodiversity datasets through the GBIF network.

About the IPT

The Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) is a free, open source software tool used to publish and share biodiversity datasets through the GBIF network. The IPT can also be configured with a DataCite account in order to assign DOIs to datasets transforming it into a data repository.

To understand how the IPT works, try watching this concise 25 minute live demo showing how a dataset gets properly published and registered through GBIF.org:

Further information, including information on the latest release, downloads, installation, usage, development and translation, is contained in the IPT User Manual.