Preservation Use Case Resource Discovery
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Actors
- a person needing data
- data centers with relevant data
- search engine providers
- friends or colleagues near by who might know where to start
Steps
- User
- User enters keywords related to their needs
- User examines first page of results to see if anything matches
- If anything looks relevant they click through to examine it in more detail
- Otherwise they try another search
- This results in a list of potential sources
- Data centers
- Research relevant search terms for your data sets
- Optimize data set landing page and other relevant web pages
- Add relevant schema.org data set descriptors to relevant pages
- Track terms being used and progress in where you are showing up in search results
- Establish cross-links with other relevant sites
- Iterate
- Search engine providers
- Index the web
PCCS artifacts
