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Find Research Data
b2find.eudat.euwww.eudat.eu
EUDAT receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme - DG CONNECT e-Infrastructures. Contract No. 654065
B2FIND User TrainingHow to find data objects and
collections using EUDAT’s B2FIND
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence.
B2FIND 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?
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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 extensive 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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Available dataAccessing the ServiceUsing the web-based discovery portalSearch and browse datasetsB2FIND Discovery Portal: Faceted SearchData AccessHands-on training, documentation and support
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/
B2FIND is available through:a web-based discovery portal:
http://b2find.eudat.eu an Application Programming Interface (API)
B2FIND exposes the full CKAN API, version 3. EUDAT has built a client tool using this API.
The B2FIND API can be used to develop your own clients to access the B2FIND service. http://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2find-usage#B2FIND_Command_Line_Usage
a command-line toolThe Python script searchB2FIND.py - available from the B2FIND git repository uses the B2FIND API to allow submission of search requests directly from the command line.