EarthCube Data Discovery Studio (DDStudio) is a cross-domain geoscience data
discovery and exploration portal. It indexes over 1.65 million metadata
records harvested from 40+ sources and utilizes a configurable metadata
augmentation pipeline to enhance metadata content, using text analytics and
an integrated geoscience ontology. Metadata enhancers add keywords with
identifiers that map resources to science domains, geospatial features,
measured variables, and other characteristics. The pipeline extracts spatial
location and temporal references from metadata to generate structured
spatial and temporal extents, maintaining provenance of each metadata
enhancement, and allowing user validation. The semantically enhanced
metadata records are accessible as standard ISO19115/19139 XML documents via
standard search interfaces. A search interface supports spatial, temporal,
and text-based search, as well as functionality for users to contribute,
standardize, and update resource descriptions, and to organize search
results into sharable collections. DDStudio bridges resource discovery and
exploration by letting users launch Jupyter notebooks residing on several
platforms for any discovered datasets or dataset collection. DDStudio
demonstrates how linking search results from the catalog directly to
software tools and environments reduces time to science in a series of
examples from several geoscience domains. URL: datadiscoverystudio.org
Short video presentation: https://youtu.be/3opK1o8LgkI