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Dataset search: a survey

Dataset search: a survey
Dataset search: a survey
Generating value from data requires the ability to find, access and make sense of datasets. There are many efforts underway to encourage data sharing and reuse, from scientific publishers asking authors to submit data alongside manuscripts to data marketplaces, open data portals and data communities. Google recently beta-released a search service for datasets, which allows users to discover data stored in various online repositories via keyword queries. These developments foreshadow an emerging research field around dataset search or retrieval that broadly encompasses frameworks, methods and tools that help match a user data need against a collection of datasets. Here, we survey the state of the art of research and commercial systems and discuss what makes dataset search a field in its own right, with unique challenges and open questions. We look at approaches and implementations from related areas dataset search is drawing upon, including information retrieval, databases, entity-centric and tabular search in order to identify possible paths to tackle these questions as well as immediate next steps that will take the field forward.
Dataset search · Dataset retrieval · Dataset · Information search and retrieval
1066-8888
1-22
Chapman, Adriane
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Simperl, Elena
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Koesten, Laura
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Konstantinidis, Georgios
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Ibanez Gonzalez, Luis
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Kacprzak, Emilia
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Groth, Paul
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Chapman, Adriane
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Simperl, Elena
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Koesten, Laura
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Konstantinidis, Georgios
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Ibanez Gonzalez, Luis
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Kacprzak, Emilia
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Groth, Paul
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Chapman, Adriane, Simperl, Elena, Koesten, Laura, Konstantinidis, Georgios, Ibanez Gonzalez, Luis, Kacprzak, Emilia and Groth, Paul (2019) Dataset search: a survey. The VLDB Journal, 1-22. (doi:10.1007/s00778-019-00564-x).

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Generating value from data requires the ability to find, access and make sense of datasets. There are many efforts underway to encourage data sharing and reuse, from scientific publishers asking authors to submit data alongside manuscripts to data marketplaces, open data portals and data communities. Google recently beta-released a search service for datasets, which allows users to discover data stored in various online repositories via keyword queries. These developments foreshadow an emerging research field around dataset search or retrieval that broadly encompasses frameworks, methods and tools that help match a user data need against a collection of datasets. Here, we survey the state of the art of research and commercial systems and discuss what makes dataset search a field in its own right, with unique challenges and open questions. We look at approaches and implementations from related areas dataset search is drawing upon, including information retrieval, databases, entity-centric and tabular search in order to identify possible paths to tackle these questions as well as immediate next steps that will take the field forward.

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Accepted/In Press date: 12 August 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 August 2019
Keywords: Dataset search · Dataset retrieval · Dataset · Information search and retrieval

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Local EPrints ID: 433957
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/433957
ISSN: 1066-8888
PURE UUID: a367d245-023f-4a4d-82c9-6821ac3ef2a4
ORCID for Adriane Chapman: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3814-2587
ORCID for Elena Simperl: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1722-947X
ORCID for Luis Ibanez Gonzalez: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6993-0001

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Date deposited: 09 Sep 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:29

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Author: Adriane Chapman ORCID iD
Author: Elena Simperl ORCID iD
Author: Laura Koesten
Author: Georgios Konstantinidis
Author: Luis Ibanez Gonzalez ORCID iD
Author: Emilia Kacprzak
Author: Paul Groth

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