2012 Asia-Pacific workshop on sharing biodiversity information and the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT2)

Asia-Pacific regional node managers and biodiversity scientists were invited to attend this workshop that covered the installation of the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit v. 2 (IPT2), its management and user interface customization, as well as data publishing to GBIF. The trend of data sharing and benefits of submitting data papers was also emphasized to encourage attendees to disseminate the knowledge of IPT2 setup and to help publish biodiversity data to the GBIF portal in their own countries.