Jeannine Beeken Veerle Van den Eynden Jeannine Beeken and Veerle Van den Eynden of the UK Data Service, report on enhancements and optimisation of the search functionality of the data catalogue.
Since the launch of our new content and access management system and data catalogue a year ago, we have optimised the search functionality of the data catalogue and how search results uae rcs data are retrieved, displayed and sorted. This was informed by observing and testing how users actually search nowadays.
Here we describe the enhancements done and explain the logic behind the search functionality and sorting order, so users can search and find data in an optimal way.
Visit the data catalogue
The data catalogue contains records for individual datasets, as well as for series of data collections that result from longitudinal or repeated surveys, such as the Labour Force Survey, Family Resources Survey, etc.
The default search when visiting the catalogue is for individual datasets (called studies) and the default display and sorting order of data is by ‘Most recently released’, displaying all studies in our collection.