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Portal Issues List

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5: GISIN needs a scientific name resolver
Resolution:
Discussion: - Verbatim (as in original db) scientific name
- Synonyms -> Accepted names
- Validated/Accepted?

23: Is there a web service that maps locality names between languages?
Resolution:
Discussion: - Not that we know of. GISIN is too busy to work on this now unless someone wants to volunteer.

24: How to test a new provider’s web service
Resolution:
Discussion: - HTML “mini-portal” as part of the toolkit with test links
- Could also have a GoogleMaps page
- Could write out the top 1000 KML

26: Portal with a push model?
Resolution:
Discussion: - We will look at it later

27: Translating portal into other languages?
Resolution:
Discussion: Use a CMS that allows translation

78: When the data is at the county level do we want polygons or country names?
Resolution:
Discussion:

Proposed

10: Can we get a geographical thesaurus/gazetteer?
Resolution: This will not be part of the provider toolkit but may be added later to the overall GISIN network
Discussion: This can be used to perform cross searches on different geographic hierarchies/standards and quality checks on data.

77: What do we do with data that is incomplete, ambiguous, or doesn’t meet requirements?
Resolution: Flag it, not show it, send an email to the provider’s support
Discussion:

Resolved

38: How do servers access registry?
Resolution: URL returns simple XML data
Discussion:

An IBIS website Updated 8/27/2010