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B2FINDHow to find data objects and

collections using EUDAT’s B2FIND

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B2FIND is...… a simple, user-friendly

discovery service based on metadata steadily harvested from research data collections from EUDAT data

centres and other repositories

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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)

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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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

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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

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How to search and browse datasets

Go to http://b2find.eudat.eu

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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

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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

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How to download datasets

Simply click on data set “Metadata access” to

access data.Resolved link to data

object

Resolved link to harvested metadata

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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

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For more info: https://eudat.eu/services/b2findB2FIND User Documentation:

https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2find