Google unveils search engine for open data

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-09-07

Summary:

"Google has unveiled a search engine to help researchers locate online data that is freely available for use. The company launched the service on 5 September, saying that it is aimed at “scientists, data journalists, data geeks, or anyone else”.

Dataset Search, now available alongside Google’s other specialized search engines, such as those for news and images — as well as Google Scholar and Google Books — locates files and databases on the basis of how their owners have classified them. It does not read the content of the files themselves in the way search engines do for web pages.

Experts say that it fills a gap and could contribute significantly to the success of the open-data movement, which aims to make data openly available for use and re-use."

Link:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06201-x

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.google oa.search oa.psi oa.tools oa.data

Date tagged:

09/07/2018, 11:04

Date published:

09/07/2018, 07:04