IndOBIS has an IPT installation, GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit, a free and open source web application, developed by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, which facilitates the publication and sharing of biodiversity data. OBIS only harvests metadata and data from the IPT of the node, which will provide researchers an opportunity to publish the data against their own credentials.
To understand how the IPT works, try watching this concise 25 minute demo showing how a dataset gets properly published and registered through GBIF.org: