mduong7
commented
7 years ago From Luis:
If I read this correctly, I think a solution would be to add a search box in the datasets page that looks in multiple places in the database. Kinda like when searching for species, where it searches for vernacular and sci names. It could search by dataset title, keywords, metadata, etc, and then return whatever matches.
Below is a suggestion from GMBA. Could we incorporate this into the datasets page? It would be handy to add some sort of search function (text, user-defined polygon, etc.) in addition to filtering by data type or taxonomic group. Feel free to add this dicussion to github (I'm not sure where to place this).
If I am a user who knows of Mr. XYZ and his database on mammals in Asian mountains, I might be interested in looking up his data, rather than searching within the mammal species of Asian mountains for the data provided by XYZ. Would it be possible and make sense to search for individual databases by keywords (e.g., author, location (country or polygon))? Another example is that of somebody interested in visualizing and then accessing GLORIA data. So in addition to having a “search for a region”, one could also have a “search for a dataset” (using author, project, or network name) and if the right one exists, clicking on it would highlight on the map where the data are and then by selecting a location (i.e., a polygon), the provider’s data would be listed. Ideally one could also access all the other data that are available for a specific polygon (i.e., the information that is now already available) with a click on “show all biodiversity”. This makes it a more “individualized service”, where individual data providers or networks get to see their personal data nicely displayed and get a nice visibility and “reward” for providing data. I could see that as an incentive to provide data, especially if each new data set is announced on the website for instance.