B2FIND is the EUDAT metadata 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 other 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.

B2FIND is 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 accross community approach.

Features:

  • based on a comprehensive joint catalogue of EUDAT services and external metadata
  • metadata is mapped onto standardized facets
  • supports faceted, geospatial and temporal metadata searches
  • allows users to search and browse datasets via keyword searches
  • results displayed in user-friendly format and listed in order of relevance
  • access to the scientific data objects is given through references provided in the metadata
  • available for communities in the EUDAT registered domain of data

Uses cases:

  • define with whom to exchange data, for how long and how
  • are offered up to 20GB of storage space for research data
  • access and manage permissions to files from any device and any location

To access the service you need to:

  1. The EUDAT public B2FIND service is offered as a fairshare free-to-use service, no registration is required to search through the B2FIND service.
  2. Request for metadata data harvesting of an existing data repository select the service option below.
  3. Provide URL to data repository
  4. Provide URL endpoint for harvesting, see B2FIND guidelines for harvesting
  5. Go to the cart and submit your order.
  6. You will receive an email summarising your order.
  7. You will be contacted by the EUDAT support team

Service provided by

EUDAT and Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ)

Service slide deck

https://www.slideshare.net/TheEOSChubproject/eoschub-eudat-b2find-service

Service offers

Open Access

For Researchers

B2FIND is a discovery service based on metadata steadily harvested from research data collections from EUDAT data centres and other community repositories. The service offers faceted browsing and...

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Open Access

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 public B2FIND...

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Places and languages
  • Europe
  • English
Related Infrastructures and Platforms
  • EUDAT
Support
Documents
Last Update
  • 22.03.2019

The EOSC portal is been jointly developed and maintained by the EOSC-hub, eInfraCentral and OpenAIRE-Advance projects funded by the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme with contribution of the European Commission

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