NSF Convergence Accelerator: Natasha Noy
Channel: UCSB Center for Spatial Studies
Date: 29/09/2022

NSF Convergence Accelerator Tracks A & B Speaker Series:
Natasha Noy, Google Research
Google Dataset Search: Building an Open Ecosystem for Dataset Discovery

Abstract: There are thousands of data repositories on the Web, providing access to millions of datasets. National and regional governments, scientific publishers and consortia, commercial data providers, and others publish data for fields ranging from social science to life science to high-energy physics to climate science and more. Access to this data is critical to facilitating reproducibility of research results, enabling scientists to build on others’ work, and providing data journalists easier access to information and its provenance. In this talk, we will discuss recently launched Dataset Search by Google, which provides search capabilities over potentially all dataset repositories on the Web. I will talk about the open ecosystem for describing datasets that we hope to encourage.

Recorded on March 18, 2021