Charlie's View on DataONE Search

Charlie discovers Bob’s data packages on DataONE and is able to navigate back to the data that Bob used, i.e., Alice’s data package. When he searches the DataONE network using the same keyword grass from DataONE Search Site, two data packages are displayed. One data package is created by “Alice”, the other is created by “Bob”. Crucially, the provenance of the two datasets is now manifested visually along with their logical connection on DataONE and is available to Charlie. Specifically, Charlie can not only visualize the two data packages (Alice’s is at the top and Bob’s at the bottom), but he is also aware of the derivation of Alice’s data through Bob’s script.