GEC NEWS WIREGoogle launched a new search engine targeted at the data journalists, scientists and other user groups to find the datasets they need for their work.
The Dataset Search platform works similar to Google scholar, the company’s search engine for academic studies. The new search engine enables users to find datasets stored thousands of repositories on the web with appropriate information or meta data tags as their otherwise known. It also lets the users find data sets wherever they are hosted, whether on a publisher’s site, a digital library or an author’s personal web page.
Google AI research scientist Natasha Noy mentioned in her blog post: “To create Dataset search, we developed guidelines for dataset providers to describe their data in a way that Google (and other search engines) can better understand the content of their pages. These guidelines include salient information about datasets: who created the dataset, when it was published, how the data was collected, what the terms are for using the data, etc.”
The initial release of dataset search will cover the environmental and social science, government data and datasets from the news organizations like ProPublica.
