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<p>Scusandomi per il cross posting, rilancio questa notizia apparsa
sulla lista JISC</p>
<p>Hi folks, some of you will have seen this already, but yesterday
Google
launched a new dataset search feature
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06201-x?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nature%2Frss%2Fcurrent+%28Nature+-+Issue%29"><https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06201-x?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nature%2Frss%2Fcurrent+(Nature+-+Issue)></a>
(Nature news article link). <br>
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<p>You can give it a try yourself here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch">https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch</a>
<br>
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<p>
A few initial observations: - It's definitely harvesting metadata
from DataCite and figshare; data.gov.uk and Kaggle are also in
there, amongst other sources. I'd be interested to know their
criteria for choosing sources and whether they can be persuaded to
add to the list - It's doing its best to <b class="moz-txt-star"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>only<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
show datasets: for example, figshare records of a type other than
"Dataset" are not indexed - It's using a lot of the metadata
available, including affiliations, authors, license, and
presenting it in human readable form: get your metadata up to
scratch!
It will be interesting to see whether this can be used to show
people how
the completeness and accuracy of their metadata has a real-world
impact on
whether their data gets found and used or just ignored.
Jez
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<div class="moz-txt-sig">-- Jez Cope *(he/him/his)*
<br>
Research Data Manager<br>
The University Library
The University of Sheffield
<br>
Sheffield S10 2TN
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:j.s.cope@sheffield.ac.uk">j.s.cope@sheffield.ac.uk</a>
<br>
Tel: 0114 22 27221
Twitter: @jezcope</div>
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