Towards Searching Amongst Tables
Paul Thomas, Rollin M. Omari, Tom Rowlands · 2015
An increasing number of data sets are being published online, in institutional or government repositories as well as by individual researchers, journalists, and others. These data are often represented as tables of various kinds: however, repositories have poor search over and inside tables. It is difficult for a user to tell from a repository's portal whether a useful dataset is available, and this problem is only likely to get worse.