EUDAT-B2FIND : A FAIR friendly and interdisciplinary discovery service for open research data

The European Data Infrastructure (EUDAT) project established a pan-European e-infrastructure supporting a variety of multiple research communities and individuals to manage the rising tide of research data in open science. This Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) is based on the FAIR principles and implements community-driven and advanced data management technologies and services to tackle the specific challenges of international and cross-domain research data management. The EUDAT data metadata service B2FIND plays a central role in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSChub) project as the central metadata repository and discovery portal for the diverse metadata collected from heterogeneous and interdisciplinary sources within and beyond EOSC-hub. The B2FIND catalogue not only harvests metadata from research communities, but also data from generic repositories, such as the data publication service EUDAT-B2SHARE. To support Open Science according to the FAIR principles, EUDAT-B2FIND allows both research data providers to easily publish their metadata and scientists to conduct cross-disciplinary and semantic search for and re-use of data resources.