1. Find Research Data b2find.eudat.eu www.eudat.eu B2FIND User Training How to find data objects and collections using EUDAT’s B2FIND This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence Version 6 December 2015

2. 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 infrastructures Technology Providers Research Communities

3. 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.

4. b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND is based on a comprehensive joint metadata catalogue of research data collections stored in EUDAT data centres and other repositories B2FIND provides a simple and user-friendly discovery service on metadata steadily harvested from a wide range of research communities What is B2FIND?

5. B2 Service Suite

6. b2find.eudat.eu With B2FIND users can… Carry out faceted search for geospatial or tempora l coverage and textual properties as ‘Creator’ or ‘Publisher’ and many other facets Find and get access to scientific data objects related to and relevant for work Browse 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

7. b2find.eudat.eu What will be covered Terms and Conditions Accessing the Service Using the web-based discovery portal Data from a huge selection of subjects B2FIND communities Search and browse datasets B2FIND Discovery Portal: Faceted Search Data Access Support requests

8. b2find.eudat.eu Accessing the Service B2FIND is available through : a web-based discovery portal http://b2find.eudat.eu 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 tool The 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.https://github.com/EUDAT- B2FIND/md-ingestion

9. b2find.eudat.eu 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.

10. b2find.eudat.eu Data from a huge selection of subjects B2FIND has a truly cross- community approach Metadata is mapped and offered covering a wide range of communities – From climate research to Social Sciences – From Biodiversity to Linguistics – From Archaeology to Seismology

11. b2find.eudat.eu 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 providers The list of currently integrated communities is available at http://b2find.eudat.eu/group/

12. b2find.eudat.eu Search and browse datasets Search and browse all data sets via Keyword searches Results displayed in easy to read format and listed in order of relevance to your search

13. b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND Discovery Portal Faceted Search B2FIND provides ‘faceted’ search for Free text Geo spatial Temporal coverage Publication year Textual facets as Communities Tags Creator Discipline Provider etc.

14. b2find.eudat.eu B2FIND Discovery Portal Faceted Search Dataset view provides display of metadata Spatial extent Title and abstract Selected tags Table of field-value pairs Links to data resources

15. b2find.eudat.eu Data Access Resolved link to data object Link to (another landing page of) the data object

16. b2find.eudat.eu Data Access View of originally harvested metadata record

17. b2find.eudat.eu Support requests www.eudat.eu/support-request?service=B2FIND

18. b2find.eudat.eu For more info: https://eudat.eu/services/b2findhttps://eudat.eu/services/b2find User documentation: https://www.eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2find-usage https://www.eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2find-usage b2find.eudat.eu