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This post originally appeared on the Canadensys blog and is a follow-up of the post Customizing the IPT . As mentioned at the very end of my post about customizing the IPT , I face a problem when I want to install a new version of the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit : installing it will overwrite all my customized files! Luckily Tim Robertson gave me a hint on how to solve this: a shell script to reapply my customization. Here's how it works (for Mac and Linux systems only): Comparing the customized files with the default files First of all, I need to compare my customized files with the files from the new IPT. They might have changed to include new functionalities or fix bugs. So, I installed the newest version of IPT on my localhost , opened the default files and compared them with my files. Although there are tools to compare files, I mostly did this manually. The biggest change in version 2.0.3 was the addition of localization, for which I'm using a different UI, so I h...

Despite our current efforts to develop a new Portal v2 , our current data portal at data.gbif.org  has not been left unattended. Bug fixes are being done periodically from feedback sent to us from our user community. In order to keep our community informed, this post will summarize the most important fixes and enhancements done in the past months: The data portal's main page now shows the total number of occurrence records with coordinates, along with the total count of records (non-georeferenced and georeferenced). Decimal coordinate searches were not working properly. When a user wanted to refine their coordinate searches to use decimals, the data portal was returning an erroneous count of occurrence records. Issue was fixed. Details here . Any feedback e-mail message sent from an occurrence or a taxon page now includes the original sender's email address in the CC field. Previously the sender's email address was not included in the feedback email, which represen...