WHY CONTRIBUTE?

The success of the Karst Information Portal depends in a large part on the participation of active members of the karst community, from professional scientists to recreational cavers. KIP's growth and long-term utility is driven by contributions of data and information from the community as well as dialog on pressing issues underlying the preservation and understanding of cave and karst environments.

Registered KIP users who wish to participate are invited to upload karst data via the portal or to input key metadata to facilitate discovery of externally-hosted resources. These resources will be vetted for relevance to the KIP mission, ingested into the database, organized for ease of access/discovery, and stored in a digital repository for the future.

Contributors have input regarding access rights to the data they contribute. View the KIP Workflow Summary document.