What is B2FIND
B2FIND is an interdisciplinary discovery portal for research output that allows free term search, results may be narrowed down using several facets, including spatial and temporal search options.
B2FIND is the EUDAT metadata indexing service and provides a discovery portal which allows users to find data collections within an international and inter-disciplinary scope. It is based on a comprehensive metadata catalogue of research data collections stored in EUDAT data centres and community repositories. Harmonization of the metadata descriptions collected from heterogeneous sources enables not only the presentation in a consistent form but as well the faceted search across scientific domain boundaries. For Communities and other providers of research data who need to publish and give visibility to their metadata and individual researchers who need to search data from everywhere, and see data in the context with an across community approach.
Features
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Harmonization of the metadata descriptions via the EUDAT Core metadata schema
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Harvesting of repositories via different protocols (e.g. OAI-PMH, CSW, Rest-APIs)
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Facetted search via 12 facets (including geospatial, temporal search options), additional free text search
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Metadata aggregation from community repositories, multiple metadata standards are supported
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Harvested by OpenAIRE explorer
Use Cases
Blue-Cloud provides cross-domain marine data with EUDAT's B2FIND
One of the multidisciplinary research projects benefiting from EUDAT’s services is the H2020 project Blue-Cloud.
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European Network for Earth System Modelling
The European Network for Earth System Modeling (ENES) is developing a common climate and Earth system modeling distributed research infrastructure in Europe integrating the European community on Ea
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EUDAT services to guarantee long time archiving and visibility to the repository of IST Austria
IST DataRep is the institutional repository for publishing research output of IST Austria affiliates.
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Data storage and preservation of high resolution climate experiments
This pilot focuses on facilitating long-term storage and sharing amongst a wide scientific user community of high-resolution climate model output data.
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Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
CLARIN is the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure in Europe.
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Jülich Atmospheric Data Distribution Service
The Jülich Atmospheric Data Distribution Service (JADDS) aims at providing the regional air quality community world-wide with customized atmospheric boundary conditions of trace gas and aerosol con
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Virtual Humans
The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) project aimed at making collaborative investigation of the human body possible across all the relevant scales (from the level of molecules through cells and or
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Enriching Europeana Newspapers
Enriching Europeana Newspapers aims to expose the full text aggregated as part of the Europeana Newspapers project.
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EUDAT as a long-term repository for the University of Porto
The DataPublication@ U.Porto pilot gathers experiments where Dendro, a prototype Research Data Management platform, is used as a gateway to EUDAT.
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An EUDAT-based FAIR Data Approach for Data Interoperability
To achieve data publication in a FAIR manner and foster their findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability, a set of (FAIR) data tools are being developed, including the FAIR Data P
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Central online location for data sharing for all Aalto University researchers
Creation of a central online location for data sharing for all Aalto University researchers.
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Information and Data Management Repository Platform for Nanoscience in Europe
The efficient data archiving for nanoscience community is a key challenge, i.e.
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Integrated Carbon Observation System
ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) is a new European research infrastructure (RI) with the mission to enable research to understand the
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Tokamak data mirror for JET and MAST data
Our data pilot will provide a mirror of experimental data from two magnetic confinement nuclear fusion devices (Tokamaks) at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE): the Joint European Torus (JE
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Unified Access to EISCAT radar data
The European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) operates three incoherent scatter radars, instruments probing the Earth’s ionosphere.
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Communities
Organisations
Researchers
B2FIND is perfect for:
- Researchers or end users who want to search and access research data: Please read the section "How to find and access data using B2FIND" and/or the online Search Guide. You can use the B2FIND discovery portal available from http://b2find.eudat.eu.
- Communities and other providers of research data who are interested in publishing their metadata in EUDAT: Please read the section "How to publish metadata in B2FIND" and contact us via the webform.
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Resource offers
For Researchers
B2FIND is a discovery service based on metadata steadily harvested from research data collections from EUDAT data centers and other community repositories. The service offers faceted browsing and it allows in particular to discover data that is stored through the B2SHARE service.
For Data Providers
To enlarge the discovery of existing datasets, data repository owners can make their research data collections stored in existing data repositories harvestable and discoverable via the public B2FIND service. To ease the process of harvesting data repository owners can assess the B2FIND guidelines for data providers.
| Data repository name | string |
| Harvesting method | OAI-PMH - Other |
| Harvesting endpoint | string |
| Reference to metadata schema | string |