b2find: how to find data objects and collections using eudat's b2find
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B2FIND
How to find data objects and collections using EUDAT’s B2FIND
Version 1
B2FIND is...
a simple and user-friendly metadata catalogue of research data
collections stored in EUDAT data centres and other repositories
b2find.eudat.eu/
www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
B2SHARE is part of EUDAT...
a pan-European initiative building a sustainable
cross-disciplinary and cross-national data
infrastructure providing a set of shared services for
accessing and preserving research data
supporting multiple research
communities by working closely
with them to deliver these
technical services as part of the
EUDAT Collaborative Data
Infrastructure (CDI)
www.eudat.eu | https://b2share.eudat.eu/ B2SHARE Training
A truly pan-European Infrastructure
general data centres
community centres
representing all the associated
community data centres
www.eudat.eu | https://b2share.eudat.eu/ B2SHARE Training
Research Communities
National Data centres
Technology providers
Offering permanence,
persistence, reliability
and long term
solutions
Where is B2SHARE in the EUDAT suite?
B2SHARE uses other EUDAT services such as B2SAFE and B2STAGE to provide reliability and data retention.
www.eudat.eu | https://b2share.eudat.eu/ B2SHARE Training
What is B2FIND?
B2FIND provides an easy to use service for researchers and scientists to find data objects and collections relevant for your work.
With B2FIND you can browse through the huge amounts of data that EUDAT stores from a broad range of disciplines.
B2FIND is based on a comprehensive joint catalogue of EUDAT and external cross-community metadata.
www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
With B2FIND you can...
Carry out facetted, geospatial and temporal searches on metadata
Get access to the scientific data objects through the given references in the metadata
Find collections of scientific data, irrespective of their origin, discipline or community
www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
Data from a huge selection of subjects
B2FIND has a truly cross-community approach
Metadata is mapped and harvested from a range of communities: – From climate research to social
sciences
– From Biodiversity to linguistics
– From Archaeology to seismology
www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
Finding the data communities
You can see the
B2FIND Data
communities by
clicking on
“Communities”
www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
B2FIND Data Communities
B2FIND is initially available for communities in the EUDAT registered domain of data. These communities provide a well-described and stable metadata offers.
Soon EUDAT will then extend the service to other interested and reliable data and metadata providers.
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www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
Search and browse datasets
Search and browse all data sets via Keyword searches
Results displayed in easy to read format and listed in order of relevance to your search
www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
Detailed information on all data sets
Spatial coverage
Abstract
Detailed metadata • Author
• Version
• Discipline
• Source
• Format
• Geographical description
• Metadata access
• Origin
• Publication Time stamp
• Year of publication
• Rights
www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
Search features
• Keyword search
• Filter by – Communities
– Location
– Tags
– Author
– Discipline
– Language
– Origin
– Year of publication
– Format
www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
Download datasets Simply click on data set
“Metadata access” to access data.
Resolved link to data object
Resolved link to harvested metadata
www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
Where is B2FIND in the EUDAT suite?
B2FIND uses other EUDAT services such as B2SHARE to provide access to data sets.
www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data
Upcoming Improvements
• Address more communities and aggregators
• Improve functionality of portal – Include a commenting
function
– Timeline search
– Taxonomies
• Improve Quality – Improve mapping
– Feedback mechanism
B2FIND – Find Research Data www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu
For more info: http://b2find.eudat.eu For support: http://www.eudat.eu/support-
request
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