Find Global Data Repository

Google lunch a new tool dedicated to Data

Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful.

Datasets and related data tend to be spread across multiple data repositories on the web. In many cases, information about these datasets is neither linked nor has it been indexed by search engines, making data discovery tedious or, in some cases, impossible.

The Dataset Search website says the project will have twin benefits: "creating a data sharing ecosystem that will encourage data publishers to follow best practices for data storage and publication" and "giving scientists a way to show the impact of their work through citation of datasets that they have produced".