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This post continues the series of posts that highlight the latest updates on the GBIF Registry . To recap, in April 2011 Jose Cuadra wrote The evolution of the GBIF Registry , a post that provided a background to the GBIF Network, explained how Network entities are now stored in a database instead of UDDI system , and how it has a new  web application and API .   Then a month later, Jose wrote another post entitled 2011 GBIF Registry Refactoring  that was more technical in nature and detailed a new set of technologies chosen to improve the underlying codebase. Now even if you have been keeping an eye on the GBIF Registry , you probably missed the most important improvement that happened in September 2012: the Registry is now dataset-aware!  To be dataset-aware, means that the Registry is now aware of all the datasets that exist behind DiGIR  and BioCASE endpoints. Just in case the reader isn't aware, DiGIR and BioCASE are wrapper tools us...

Today the GBIF Secretariat has announced the release of version 2.0.4 of the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT). For those who can't wait to get their hands on the release, it's available for download on the project website  here . Collaboration on this version was more global than ever before, with volunteers in Latin America, Asia, and Europe contributing translations, and volunteers in Canada and the United States contributing some patches.  Add to that all the issue activity, things have been busy. In total 108 issues were addressed in this version; 38 Defects, 35 Enhancements, 7 Other, 5 Patches, 18 Won't fix, 4 Duplicates, and 1 that was considered as Invalid. These are detailed in the  issue tracking system . So what exactly has changed and why? Here's a quick rundown. One thing that kept coming up again and again in version 2.0.3, was that users were unwittingly installing the IPT in test mode, thinking that they were running in production. After regist...