| www.eudat.eu | 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
How 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 data
supporting 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 community
Get quick overviews of available
data
Browse through collections using
standardized facets
A metadata catalogue service to:
Features:
simple to use
standards-based
comprehensive 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 approach
Metadata is mapped and harvested from a range
of communities:
From climate research to social sciences
From biodiversity to linguistics
From 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
searches
Results
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/b2find
B2FIND User Documentation:
https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2find