Find Research Data
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B2FIND User TrainingHow to find data objects and
collections using EUDAT’s B2FIND
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Version 6December 2015
EUDAT: A truly pan-European Infrastructure
EUDAT offers common data services to both research communities and individuals through a network of 35 European organisations.
EUDAT enables European researchers from any discipline and any geographical location to preserve, find, access, and process data in a trusted environment.
European infrastructuresTechnology ProvidersResearch Communities
Community-Driven Solutions
PHYSICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING
SOCIAL SCIENCES
& HUMANITIES
MATERIALS & ANALYTICAL FACILITIES
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
MAPPER
BIOMEDICAL & MEDICAL SCIENCES
EUDAT services (B2 Service Suite) are designed, built and implemented based on user community requirements.
b2find.eudat.euB2FIND is based on a
comprehensive joint metadata catalogue of research data collections stored in EUDAT data centres and other repositoriesB2FIND provides a simple and user-friendly discovery service on metadata steadily harvested from a wide range of research communities
What is B2FIND?
B2 Service Suite
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With B2FIND users can…
Carry out faceted search for geospatial or temporal coverage and textual properties as ‘Creator’ or ‘Publisher’ and many other facetsFind and get access to scientific data objects related to and relevant for workBrowse through the huge amounts of data that EUDAT stores from a broad range of disciplines.
The B2FIND catalogue comprises collections of scientific data, irrespective of their origin, discipline or community
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What will be covered
Terms and ConditionsAccessing the ServiceUsing the web-based discovery portalData from a huge selection of subjectsB2FIND communitiesSearch and browse datasetsB2FIND Discovery Portal: Faceted SearchData AccessSupport requests
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Accessing the Service
B2FIND is available through:a web-based discovery portal http://b2find.eudat.eu an Application Programming Interface (API)
The B2FIND Portal is based on the CKAN platform ckan.org. B2FIND exposes the full CKAN API, version 2.2. EUDAT has built a client tool using this API, see http://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2find-usage#B2FIND_Command_Line_Usage. The B2FIND API can be used to develop your own clients to access the B2FIND service.
a command-line toolThe Python script searchB2FIND.py - available from the B2FIND git repository (https://github.com/EUDAT-B2FIND/md-ingestion) - uses the B2FIND API to allow submission of search requests directly from the command line.
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Using the web-based discovery portal
http://b2find.eudat.eu
The only required prerequisite to use the web interface is that JavaScript is enabled in the used browser.
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Data from a huge selection of subjects
B2FIND has a truly cross-community approachMetadata is mapped and offered covering a wide range of communities– From climate research to
Social Sciences– From Biodiversity to
Linguistics– From Archaeology to
Seismology
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B2FIND communities
B2FIND comprises initially communities in the EUDAT registered domain of data, which provide well-described and stable metadata offers. EUDAT is extending the service to other interested and reliable data and metadata providersThe list of currently integrated communities is available at http://b2find.eudat.eu/group/
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Search and browse datasets
Search and browse all data sets via Keyword searchesResults displayed in easy to read format and listed in order of relevance to your search
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B2FIND Discovery PortalFaceted Search
B2FIND provides ‘faceted’ search for
Free textGeo spatialTemporal coveragePublication yearTextual facets as
CommunitiesTagsCreatorDisciplineProvider etc.
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B2FIND Discovery PortalFaceted Search
Dataset view provides display of metadata
• Spatial extent• Title and abstract• Selected tags• Table of field-value
pairs• Links to data
resources
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Data AccessResolved link to data object
Link to (another landing page of) the data object
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Data Access View of originallyharvested metadata record
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Support requests
www.eudat.eu/support-request?service=B2FIND
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For more info: https://eudat.eu/services/b2find User documentation: https://
www.eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2find-usage
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