GBIF IPT
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- caveatGBIF IPT via a data-hosting centre - free email account, but the payload must be biodiversity occurrences
Storagefree tieridentity emailno cardevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotagbif
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- Free allowance
- No quota published anywhere: a data-hosting centre gives you an account on its IPT installation, and your dataset lives in that IPT's data directory.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No quota published anywhere: a data-hosting centre gives you an account on its IPT installation, and your dataset lives in that IPT's data directory. Capacity is whatever the centre provisioned; there is no per-user byte figure to quote. unit unlimited; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email email |
| Egress | Free public download as DwC-A; GBIF also mirrors a full monthly snapshot to AWS Open Data, Azure Planetary Computer and a public S3 bucket. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest rest |
| Tooling | IPT web UI plus its REST resource endpoints; publishing to GBIF mints a DOI. VertNet (vertebrates), VLIZ/EurOBIS (marine, 20+ IPT instances), BioFresh (freshwater) are the listed centres. |
| Composes with | Per dataset within a centre's IPT; multiple datasets are allowed, but reviewers police relevance, so this does not shard. |
| Reliability | Long-lived EU-funded centres with backed-up IPT data directories; the IPT is a metadata+archive publisher, not an object store, and it re-packages rather than serving your original bytes. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.gbif.org/data-hosting-centres | 'A data-hosting centre (DHC) can provide users with an account on their IPT installation'; requirements list includes 'Ensuring the IPT data directory is regularly backed up' |
| 2026-10-21 | ipt.gbif.org/manual/en/ipt/latest/ | 'request a free account on a trusted data hosting centre'; demo IPT account by email to [address removed] |
| 2026-10-21 | ipt.vliz.be/ | live list of 20+ hosted IPT instances (EurOBIS, OBIS nodes, ISA, IBSS, ILVO) |
| 2026-10-21 | ipt.vertnet.org/ | 200, live VertNet IPT resource table |
Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
gbif
Storage- Free allowance
- Publishes Darwin Core occurrences and derived download archives, not arbitrary blobs.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Publishes Darwin Core occurrences and derived download archives, not arbitrary blobs. Anonymous download requests are refused (403), and the synchronous API caps at 100,000 records. The… unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request | Publishes Darwin Core occurrences and derived download archives, not arbitrary blobs. Anonymous download requests are refused (403), and the synchronous API caps at 100,000 records. The IP |
| 2026-10-21 | www.gbif.org/faq | cited as the basis of the rejection: Publishes Darwin Core occurrences and derived download archives, not arbitrary blobs. Anonymous download requests are refused (403), and the synchronous API caps at 100,000 records. The IP |
| 2026-10-21 | www.gbif.org/ipt | cited as the basis of the rejection: Publishes Darwin Core occurrences and derived download archives, not arbitrary blobs. Anonymous download requests are refused (403), and the synchronous API caps at 100,000 records. The IP |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Publishes Darwin Core occurrences and derived download archives, not arbitrary blobs. Anonymous download requests are refused (403), and the synchronous API caps at 100,000 records. The…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field