b2find - how to find data objects and collections using eudat's b2find
TRANSCRIPT
Find Research Data
b2find.eudat.euwww.eudat.e
u
B2FINDHow to find data objects and
collections using EUDAT’s B2FIND
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence
b2find.eudat.eu
B2FIND is...… a simple, user-friendly
discovery service based on metadata steadily harvested from research data collections from EUDAT data
centres and other repositories
b2find.eudat.eu
B2FIND 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 datasupporting multiple research communities by working closely with them to deliver these technical services as part of the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI)
b2find.eudat.eu
A truly pan-European Infrastructure
EUDAT offers common data services, supporting multiple research communities as well as individuals, through a geographically distributed, resilient network of 35 European organisations
Our vision is to enable European researchers and practitioners from any research discipline to preserve, find, access, and process data in a trusted environment, as part of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure
b2find.eudat.eu
Community-Driven Solutions
PHYSICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING
SOCIAL SCIENCES
& HUMANITIES
MATERIALS & ANALYTICAL FACILITIES
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
MAPPER
BIOMEDICAL & MEDICAL SCIENCES
EUDAT services are designed, built and implemented based on user community requirements.
b2find.eudat.eu
Where is B2FIND in the B2 Service suite?
B2FIND offers faceted browsing and it allows in particular to discover data that is stored through the B2SAFE and B2SHARE services.
b2find.eudat.eu
Find collections of scientific data quickly and easily, irrespective of their origin, discipline or communityGet quick overviews of available dataBrowse through collections using standardized facets
A metadata catalogue service to:
Features:simple to usestandards-basedcomprehensive catalogue
What is B2FIND?
b2find.eudat.eu
What are the benefits of B2FIND?
Users can easily
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
b2find.eudat.eu
Data from a huge selection of subjects
B2FIND has a truly cross-community approachMetadata is mapped and harvested from a range of communities:
From climate research to social sciencesFrom biodiversity to linguisticsFrom archaeology to seismology
b2find.eudat.eu
How to search and browse datasets
Go to http://b2find.eudat.eu
b2find.eudat.eu
How to search and browse datasets
Search and browse all data sets via Keyword searchesResults displayed in an easy to read format and listed in order of relevance to your search
b2find.eudat.eu
Detailed information on all datasets
Spatial coverage
Abstract
Detailed metadata• Author • Version• Discipline• Source• Format• Geographical description• Metadata access• Origin• Publication Time stamp• Year of publication• Rights
b2find.eudat.eu
How to download datasets
Simply click on data set “Metadata access” to
access data.Resolved link to data
object
Resolved link to harvested metadata
b2find.eudat.eu
How to publish metadata
Two prerequisites must be fulfilled to publish and make visible your metadata in B2FIND:
A service for providing and transferring the metadata.The definition of a community specific mapping.
The communities integrated with B2FIND
b2find.eudat.eu
For more info: https://eudat.eu/services/b2findB2FIND User Documentation:
https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2find