Preservation Use Case Resource Discovery

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