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#Welcome to the IPT wiki

Here you can find the IPT User Manual and a variety of other valuable resources.

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Need help validating your dataset? For help, refer to this new [data quality checklist](new https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/dataQualityChecklist). It is particularly suited for checking occurrence and sampling event datasets and will help ensure that the dataset is both valid and complete

Confused about what types of data GBIF supports? Confused about how to publish data and register it with GBIF? Check out the new How to Publish Guide. It starts by describing the four classes of biodiversity data that can be published through GBIF.org. For each class of data you'll find a simple set of instructions guiding you through the publication steps. Try out the simple Excel templates designed to simplify publication even more!

Interested in writing your own resource metadata in XML? Check out this new how-to guide.