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> On 6 Sep 2018, at 11:10, Jez Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A few initial observations: > • It's definitely harvesting metadata from DataCite and figshare; data.gov.uk and Kaggle are also in there, amongst other sources. I'd be interested to know their criteria for choosing sources and whether they can be persuaded to add to the list > • It's doing its best to only show datasets: for example, figshare records of a type other than "Dataset" are not indexed > • It's using a lot of the metadata available, including affiliations, authors, license, and presenting it in human readable form: get your metadata up to scratch! See [1] to get some idea about what google are indexing concerning datasets, and how you might mark up your own outside of datacite et al. Damian [1] <https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/dataset> -- Damian Steer Data Research Software Engineer University of Bristol https://www.bris.ac.uk/contact/person/getDetails?personKey=W1K8jX7rokwl8OKZUeQMmPO1FXAvt0 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the RESEARCH-DATAMAN list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=RESEARCH-DATAMAN&A=1