b2find: how to find data objects and collections using eudat's b2find

B2FIND

How to find data objects and collections using EUDAT’s B2FIND

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B2FIND is...

a simple and user-friendly metadata catalogue of research data

collections stored in EUDAT data centres and other repositories

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www.eudat.eu | http://b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND – Find Research Data

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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)

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A truly pan-European Infrastructure

general data centres

community centres

representing all the associated

community data centres


Research Communities

National Data centres

Technology providers

Offering permanence,

persistence, reliability

and long term

solutions

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Where is B2SHARE in the EUDAT suite?

B2SHARE uses other EUDAT services such as B2SAFE and B2STAGE to provide reliability and data retention.



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.



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



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



Finding the data communities

You can see the

B2FIND Data

communities by

clicking on

“Communities”



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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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



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



Search features

• Keyword search

• Filter by – Communities

– Location

– Tags

– Author

– Discipline

– Language

– Origin

– Year of publication

– Format



Download datasets Simply click on data set

“Metadata access” to access data.

Resolved link to data object

Resolved link to harvested metadata



Where is B2FIND in the EUDAT suite?

B2FIND uses other EUDAT services such as B2SHARE to provide access to data sets.



Upcoming Improvements

• Address more communities and aggregators

• Improve functionality of portal – Include a commenting

function

– Timeline search

– Taxonomies

• Improve Quality – Improve mapping

– Feedback mechanism

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