Google Dataset Search
To make it easier to access data repositories, Google has launched a new tool, Dataset Search. This tool can be used by scientists, journalists, and other people to find the exact data they are looking for to support their work.
The Dataset search workflow is exactly like the work of Google Scholar. Gives you the ability to find data sets from sites that are hosted. This can be from the website of the organization or from the personal site of the person who published the data.
In order to facilitate smooth access to the data set, Google has created a set of guidelines that data group providers can use to make their data accessible to Google Search. The search engine must be able to understand the content of its data. Some of this information includes:
Brief information about the data
Data Builder
The person who collected the data
Methods used during data collection
The date on which it was published
Data usage conditions
Using the information above, Google will analyze the data and collect a set of different versions of the same data set that might be on the Internet. It uses the schema.org standard, an open standard for describing data on the Internet. Data providers are encouraged to use the same standard to describe their data.
A variety of references
Dataset Search provides a broad source of references for any collection of data collected. Although environmental and social sciences are some of the main sources of references, governments and news organizations are also the main sources of data. The fact that most other data repositories include using the schema.org criterion to describe their data means that Dataset Search is able to access a lot of data at any time. This also gives room for the growth of this tool.
Dataset Search Multilingual. There are plans to integrate more languages into the tool. It also has an easy-to-use interface making it easy to use. You simply need to write down the information you are looking for and the rest of the task will be accomplished for you.
