Introduction

The Nodes Portal Toolkit is envisioned as a tool to facilitate discovery and access to GBIF data at a national, regional or thematic level, including the possibility to offer access to additional sources of information at a national (or a thematic) level, including, for example, blogs, news, relevant data. The primary users of the NPT are the GBIF Node Managers (specifically the technical teams involved in GBIF Participant Nodes and/or relevant biodiversity information networks), as well as the end-users of the data published through NPT instances. The NPT should enable the node managers to customize the way GBIF-compliant data are served to their own community or a specific group of data users. Development of the NPT is based on the needs expressed by the Nodes community. At this stage, the development of the first NPT, (future) managers of the NPT are expected to be aware of the needs of data end-users and the wishes and needs of data publishers. To the extent possible, the wishes of the Nodes and their communities regarding NPT functionalities should be expressed in the flexibility and scalability of the tool itself. Based on an iterative developmental process, feedback is expected from the Nodes community in order to align their needs and the functionalities of the NPT. The NPT is intended to be a technical tool. NPT-based portals are also envisioned as an important public relations and communication tool for GBIF Participant Nodes, serving also to demonstrate the possibilities that the GBIF network offers at different levels (national, regional, thematic).

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