A new feature called the Asset Repo has now been added to DataLabs which is fully operational. The goal of this is to curate a central set of datasets and links which are useful to the community, while also preventing multiple copies of datasets being brought into DataLabs which can cause confusion and resource wastage.
The main points can be found below;
- A new tab called Asset Repo is now accessible in the Top Bar of DataLabs which contains a list of curated datasets.
- Datasets can either be made public to the entire community or restricted to one or a number of projects depending on the need.
- Attached datasets once attached can be accessed directly within either Notebooks or Sites in a read-only fashion.
In order to get things rolling we have added the following datasets below which are now available for all users. However we encourage users to let us know if there is a dataset they would like to see included which can be added (this currently applies only to publically licensed datasets), or if there is a dataset that has been produced within DataLabs and is of value to other projects.
- Land Cover Change 1990-2015 (25m raster, GB) (https://doi.org/10.5285/07b6e5e9-b766-48e5-a28c-5b3e35abecc0)
- Land Cover Change 1990-2015 (25m raster, N. Ireland) (https://doi.org/10.5285/a747aa7a-c875-42e1-ac31-984f6571f446)
- Land Cover Map 2020 (10m classified pixels, GB) (https://doi.org/10.5285/35c7d0e5-1121-4381-9940-75f7673c98f7)
- Land Cover Map 2020 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB) (https://doi.org/10.5285/6c22cf6e-b224-414e-aa85-900325baedbd)
Guidance on how to attach them to existing notebooks and access them directly from notebooks/sites can be found on the following page https://datalab-docs.datalabs.ceh.ac.uk/howto/use-the-asset-repo/index.html.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In many cases the data held within DataLabs will be a copy of a dataset held within EIDC or another source repository. If this is the case a DOI will be listed on the Asset Repo entry which can be used to see the raw data page as well as information on how to cite the data if necessary.