1. The IPT user interface and data quality tools
Author: Arnaud Réveillon, Technical Writer.
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Alberto GONZÁLEZ-TALAVÁN
Programme Officer for Training
GBIF Secretariat
GBIF NODES Committee Meeting
Copenhagen, Denmark
4th October 2009

2. SUMMARY IPT General Features: basics about the IPT
IPT Requirements : What do you need to have an IPT instance running?
The data interfaces: how is data exposed when connected to the IPT.
The user interface: how data is displayed to visitors.
Customisation and internationalisation.
Expanding the IPT: are you interested in your IPT handling other kinds of data?
Discussion, questions and answers.
The GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit

3. SUMMARY IPT General Features: basics about the IPT
IPT Requirements : What do you need to have an IPT instance running?
The data interfaces: how is data exposed when connected to the IPT.
The user interface: how data is displayed to visitors.
Customisation and internationalisation.
Expanding the IPT: are you interested in your IPT handling other kinds of data?
Discussion, questions and answers.
The home page
Exploring the datasets (metadata repository)
The resources’ description
Accessing the contents
The data quality tools and annotation system
The GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit

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INTRODUCTION
This is an overview of the public side of the GBIF IPT, including an introduction to user annotations (not yet implemented).
The GBIF IPT differentiates from previous biodiversity data providing tools in its public interface, that immediately exposes the data published in the internet for public access in an attractive way.
At the same time, the GBIF IPT performs a series of analysis that enables the data curator to identify inconsistencies in the datasets and perform basic data quality checks.
This topic was presented by Alberto González-Talaván, Programme Officer for Training at the GBIF Secretariat.
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HOME PAGE
The Home page of an IPT instance has different sections:
The main menu *
The search box *
The title given to the instance.
Its description (HTML based).
The external image.
A list of hosted resources, with direct links to these resources’ description page.
The footer, including contact information *
Points 3, 4, 5 and 7 are defined by the administrator in the settings section.      
* Common for all pages
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EXPLORE
Clicking on ‘Explore’ in the menu will lead to the ‘METADATA REPOSITORY’ section. It includes:
A global interactive map that includes boxes delimitating the geographical area covered by each of the resources.
A keyword cloud and index. Clicking on an item performs a search for that term.
A list of resources, that can be filtered based on the type of resource (occurrence / checklist)
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EXPLORE    
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RESOURCE DESCRIPTION 
Clicking on a resource name takes you to that resource information page. It includes:
The description box
Two trees to browse the taxonomic and geographic contents
The general statistics box
The interactive map
A number of interactive charts and maps showing a brief analysis of the contents of the dataset.    
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RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
A resource page summarises all the information that is available for this resource:
The description box, with the description text and photo as defined in the metadata of the dataset and the total number of records and date of publication. It includes buttons to access annotations, full metadata and webservices.
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RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
A resource page summarises all the information that is available for this resource:
The taxonomic and geographical trees, that allow to directly browse the contents of the dataset.
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RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
A resource page summarises all the information that is available for this resource:
Some Geographic and taxonomic statistics (first hints about data quality: did I map my fields correctly?)
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RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
A resource page summarises all the information that is available for this resource:
A interactive map with points for the geographical occurrences (second opportunity for data quality: do the points fall in the correct area? Are there any outliers?
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RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
A resource page summarises all the information that is available for this resource:
A number of pie charts showing analysis by the following criteria: geographical, taxonomic, basis of record and hosting body. The pie charts views can be customised via drop-down menus.
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RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
A resource page summarises all the information that is available for this resource:
Two extra charts giving you information about the year of collection and the country of collection (more opportunities for data cleaning and finding outliers).
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RESOURCE DESCRIPTION
All the charts can be clicked to give access to a page with more precise details on the topic:
It is still possible to analysis following other criteria.
Record counts for each category are displayed.
Export options (SCV, MS Excel, XML and PDF).
These statistics and graphics can be very useful for data publishers and administrators to easily prepare reports and summaries.   
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ACCESSING CONTENTS
Different ways to access the contents of the datasets:
Browse the taxonomy and geography trees.
Click on records counts in the charts.
Use the search box
Navigating through resources will allow you to drill down to the requested information, down to the record level.
Clicking on a taxon name or a count number will lead you to a summary page with the records matching that criteria.
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ACCESSING CONTENTS
In the search result page we can find:
Information about the taxon concept or the geographical area (with links)
Interactive map.
Taxonomic and geographic trees
List of individual resources displaying different details.
From the list we can have access to the individual records.    
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ACCESSING CONTENTS
The taxon concept summary page includes basic information about the taxon and the number of occurrences related to that taxon and branch.
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ACCESSING CONTENTS
The record page displays all the indexed fields for the record, plus a interactive map showing the location for those records with coordinates.
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All the summary charts and analysis give the data curators/publishers hints to identify typing mistakes, coordinate errors (misplaced points, outliers), fields not correctly mapped... from the very moment of publication.
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The ANNOTATIONS are a feedback and data quality control mechanism both for the administrators and the data managers. They can be produced:
Automatically by the system: wrong data types, wrong references, etc.
Manually by authenticated users: data quality, incomplete data - not yet implemented.
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CONCLUSIONS
The GBIF IPT provides a public web interface to the data that exposes the contents immediately in an interactive way.
When new datasets are mapped to an IPT instance, a number of analysis are performed that reveal inconsistencies and data quality issues in the dataset.
The result of these analysis can be used to easily produce dynamic reports and summaries of the data.
The system is provided with an annotation system that allows the system and the users to provide feedback and data quality hints on specific records.
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Alberto GONZÁLEZ-TALAVÁN
Programme Officer for Training
GBIF Secretariat
Universitetsparken 15
DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Author: Arnaud Réveillon, Technical Writer.
Image by G. Marcus, obtained in the stock.xchng site (
GBIF NODES Committee Meeting
Copenhagen, Denmark
4th October 2009