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Search data packages

Source: R/search_data_packages.R
search_data_packages.Rd

Searches data packages in the EDI data repository using the specified Solr query.

Usage

search_data_packages(query, as = "data.frame", env = "production")

Arguments

query

(character) Query (see details below)

as

(character) Format of the returned object. Can be: "data.frame" or "xml".

env

(character) Repository environment. Can be: "production", "staging", or "development".

Value

(data.frame or xml_document) Search results containing the fields:

  • abstract

  • begindate

  • doi

  • enddate

  • funding

  • geographicdescription

  • id

  • methods

  • packageid

  • pubdate

  • responsibleParties

  • scope

  • site

  • taxonomic

  • title

  • authors

  • spatialCoverage

  • sources

  • keywords

  • organizations

  • singledates

  • timescales

Details

Documents in the EDI data repository Solr index can be discovered based on metadata values stored in the following list of searchable fields (not all EML content is queryable):

Single-value fields:

  • abstract

  • begindate - In ISO format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss)

  • doi

  • enddate - In ISO format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss)

  • funding

  • geographicdescription

  • id

  • methods

  • packageid - Data Id in "scope.identifier.revision" format

  • pubdate - In ISO format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss)

  • responsibleParties

  • scope

  • singledate

  • site

  • taxonomic

  • title

Multi-value fields:

  • author

  • coordinates - Use "IsWithin(West+East+North+South)" where each cardinal direction is in decimal degrees with South of the equator as negative and East of the prime meridian positive.

  • keyword

  • organization

  • projectTitle

  • relatedProjectTitle

  • timescale

query parser: The optimal query parser (defType=edismax) is added to every query.

See Apache Solr Wiki for how to construct a Solr query.

Note

Only the newest version of data packages are searchable, older versions are not.

When constructing a query note that the 15403 data packages of the ecotrends project and 10492 data packages of the LTER Landsat project, can be excluded from the returned results by including &fq=-scope:(ecotrends+lter-landsat) in the query string.

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# Search for data packages containing the term "air temperature"
res <- search_data_packages(query = 'q="air+temperature"&fl=*')

# Search for data packages containing the term "air temperature" and
# returning only the packageid, title, and score of each match
res <- search_data_packages(query = 'q="air+temperature"&fl=packageid,title,score')

# Search for data packages containing the term "air temperature", returning
# only the packageid, title, score, and excluding ecotrends and lter-landsat
# scopes from the returned results
query <- paste0('q="air+temperature"&fl=packageid,title,score&',
                'fq=-scope:(ecotrends+lter-landsat)')
res <- search_data_packages(query)
}