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B2FIND User TrainingHow to find data objects and

collections using EUDAT’s B2FIND

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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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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 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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Where is B2FIND in the EUDAT suite ?

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What will be covered

Available dataAccessing the ServiceUsing the web-based discovery portalSearch and browse datasetsB2FIND Discovery Portal: Faceted SearchData AccessHands-on training, documentation and support

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Data from a broad 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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Accessing the Service

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.

https://github.com/EUDAT-B2FIND/md-ingestion

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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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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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Hands-on material

https://github.com/EUDAT-Training/B2FIND-Training

Material on

Module 5: Using B2FIND 05.a Search API05.b Search GUI05.c Search CLI05.d Data access

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Further Support

For more info: https://eudat.eu/services/b2find

Training material:https://www.eudat.eu/b2find-training-suite-0

User documentation: https://www.eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2find-usage

Support requests:https://www.eudat.eu/support-request?service=B2FIND

B2FIND service:http://b2find.eudat.eu

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Authors Contributors

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EUDAT receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme - DG CONNECT e-Infrastructures.Contract No. 654065

Heinrich Widmann, DKRZ Hannes Thiemann, DKRZ

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