EGDI Data Search: a web application to support geoscientific information discovery and access in Europe: Sistemas de Información Geológica

Abstract

[EN] There is a considerable amount of geoscientific information in Europe that is useful to tackle some of the problems modern society is facing, but also helping companies to provide derived products and services and, therefore, to stimulate the economy. This geoscientific information comes from European cross-border projects, but also includes maps and inventories that the geological surveys of the different countries or regions produce. Most search engines use metadata to search for datasets and have difficulty finding the relevant datasets. On the one hand, sometimes the search text typed by the user is not found in the metadata. However, sometimes the text is present in the values from data-attributes and therefore the dataset should be in the results list. On the other hand, the search text often does not match the text that appears in the metadata or the data, either because another term is used or it is in another language. IGME has developed a new web application that allows a very powerful data discovery and access and is now one of the main components of the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI).Peer reviewe