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Locating pre-existing data relevant in the context of a research project.
Describe the concept
This concept would be used by research detailing archives and archive use, as well as VO services targeted at supporting data discovery: registry interfaces, facilities for global or domain-specific dataset discovery, and the like.
Describe where the concept fits within the existing hierarchy
I suggest "Related" links to 83 (databases) and 1860 (acquisition) (the latter because data discovery might very well be a reasonable alternative to data acquisition in some scenarios). If we will do "Data Dissemination" as proposed in parallel, that would do as a second parent concept; discovery can be viewed as a phase in several modes of data dissemination.
As to a parent concept... well, logically, I'd say it would be a sibling of 1860 and hence the parent would be 1858 (data analysis). That probably will work marginally well.
I can't say I'm convinced that either 1860 nor Data Discovery have a particularly good place in 1858. In the end, both appear to me closer to observational than to computational methods. In that sense, perhaps they should be moved to (or get second parents in) 1684 (Astronomical techniques).
Name the new concept
Data Discovery
Proposed definition:
Describe the concept
This concept would be used by research detailing archives and archive use, as well as VO services targeted at supporting data discovery: registry interfaces, facilities for global or domain-specific dataset discovery, and the like.
Describe where the concept fits within the existing hierarchy
I suggest "Related" links to 83 (databases) and 1860 (acquisition) (the latter because data discovery might very well be a reasonable alternative to data acquisition in some scenarios). If we will do "Data Dissemination" as proposed in parallel, that would do as a second parent concept; discovery can be viewed as a phase in several modes of data dissemination.
As to a parent concept... well, logically, I'd say it would be a sibling of 1860 and hence the parent would be 1858 (data analysis). That probably will work marginally well.
I can't say I'm convinced that either 1860 nor Data Discovery have a particularly good place in 1858. In the end, both appear to me closer to observational than to computational methods. In that sense, perhaps they should be moved to (or get second parents in) 1684 (Astronomical techniques).
Provide 1-3 supporting articles
Well, obvious ones would be https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015A&C....11...91D or https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26C.....7..101D/abstract. Other than that, I'm thinking of tagging resources like http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/wirr/q/ui/fixed or publications on or building relevantly on https://github.com/astropy/pyvo/pull/470.