I am pleased to say the the French GBIF node have expressed an early interest in making use of the toolkit and have joined this mailing list so that they can participate in the discussions - welcome Gaël Lancelot.
Thank you very much for your warm welcome. I would like, however, to point out that I'm not alone in the French GBIF team. In fact, I'm quite certain that most of the contributions on this list will come from my colleagues, Adil El Filali and Patricia Kelbert, who have vastly superior computer know-how to mine.
This being said, the French node is indeed looking at using NCD for its metadata gathering campaign. Due to our timekeeping constraints, we cannot afford to wait for the NCD toolkit, useful as it would be, and we might well develop our NCD tools (database, interface) in parallel to the work done in Amsterdam. Of course, we'd be glad to share these developments with the list, in case it might be of any help.
Thanks a lot for your support and your work,
Gaël Lancelot Scientific Resource Management GBIF France 12, rue Cuvier 75005 PARIS FRANCE