Discovery Cluster

What's New 2026-07-16: From DOI to Discovery: How Digital Commons Data@Becker Connects Datasets, Publications, Software, and Contributors, Seonyoung Kim. 2026-05-21: Evidence synthesis methods adapted to discovery and evaluation of research datasets.  Lindsay Barbieri. 2026-04-17: Bridging the data discovery gap: User-centric recommendations for research data repositories, Mingfang Wu 2025-08-13: Current plans for data DOIs, citations and data discovery, Jitu Kumar 2025-04-02: ESIP Guest Blog: Earth Science Data Should Relate Science to Society. by Jonathan Blythe 2024-12-19: Indigenous data and Knowledge integration in Earth science information resources and discovery tools 2024-11-21: Developing an Online Gateway to Navigate USGS Coastal Science, Erika Lentz and Richard Snell 2024-05-18: Geospatial Discovery UX, Brad Andrick, Element 84 2024-03-21: GES DISC Publications Search, Irina Gerasimov 2024-01-24: ESIP Winter Meeting Session: Citing Virtual Collections 2023-06-15: Enabling the Geoverse: Introducing a NOAA Vision for Next Generation Interoperability - Ryan Berkheimer, NOAA, NCEI 2023-05-18: Weather Service Warnings Use Case 2022-02-17: Winter meeting recap and planning next 6 months 2022-01-19: ESIP Winter Meeting Session 2021-12-16: Rebooting... Archive Discovery Cluster Knowledge Graph survey Discovery Cluster 2020 UBD Reboot Discovery Cluster 2017 Minutes Discovery Cluster Archive Posts

Contrib Linking Datasets to the Applications that Use Them Mission Statement for Improving Search Relevancy Mission Statement for Web Services Scenarios for Machine Actionable Links Scenario compilation Web Service Validators Ideas for new Discovery specifications Discovery services OpenSearch Services DataCasting Services ServiceCasting Services Discovery Clients Discovery Webinar Materials EarthCube White paper from the Discovery Cluster

Resources Open Source Code Repositories related to Search Relevancy OneStop Project Earthdata Search ESRI Geoportal NASA AIST MUDROD Project; Mining and Utilizing Dataset Relevancy from Oceanographic Datasets to Improve Data Discovery and Access project funded by NASA AIST (NNX15AM85G) Lynnes Presentation on Search Heuristics Discovery Cluster Resource Archive

Get Involved Join our Email List: ESIP-Discovery Cluster Email archive: ESIP-Discovery Email Archive Current Activities: Drawn from the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Data Discovery Paradigms Interest Group's four recommendations for Bridging the Data Discovery Gap (see Mingfang Wu's April 2026 presentation). Understanding user needs and search behaviors to inform repository and interface design Improving integration with the wider discovery ecosystem to increase dataset visibility Enhancing metadata quality and alignment with real user terminology and search patterns Optimizing discovery interfaces and APIs for both human and machine-driven discovery Telecons: 3rd Thursday of the Month, 3:00-4;00 Eastern Time See the ESIP Calendar for info on joining the Zoom meeting. Cluster Coordinators: Usage-based Discovery (current): Jonathan Blythe (BOEM, ESP) Knowledge Graph (past): Doug Newman (NASA, GES DISC) Search Relevancy (past): Dave Neufeld OpenSearch (past): Doug Newman