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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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