[Nhcoll-l] Publishing Vertebrate Paleontology data through IPT and Federal land requirements

[Gil Nelson]

Andy, this issue is being debated now within the paleo community. Chris 
Norris dealt with it at a recent Paleo Digitization Working Group 
meeting. There are laws governing this. Chris might be the best one to 
address your question.

On 3/19/2014 4:16 PM, Bentley, Andrew Charles wrote:
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> Hi all
>
> We are in the process of publishing all KU collections data through 
> IPT to publish to GBIF and other portals.  A question has arisen 
> regarding the publishing of vertebrate paleontology data and an issue 
> of publishing exact localities.  I am not a paleo person and so was 
> wondering if anybody had any insights into this issue.  Are there any 
> Federal regulations (in the BLM) or elsewhere that prohibit the 
> publishing of locality data to the outside world?  What are other vert 
> paleo collections doing when publishing data online?
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Andy
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