Using web standards including Schema.org and JSON-LD, the GeoCODES
project extends Schema.org with Project 418's geoscience specific
vocabulary. By embedding properly formatted and populated JSON-LD files
in web sites serving geolocated datasets, search engines such as Google
and Bing are able to parse and index these data sets and then to provide
information concerning these datasets via standard web search tools. Due
to the difficult nature of properly formatting and populating these
JSON-LD structures, the GeoCODES User Interface was created to guide
data providers through the process of describing the data and validating
the descriptions against standard vocabularies. The result is user
friendly and easily extensible web based, mobile device ready tool for
automatically generating JSON-LD metadata for organizations and
datasets. This ultimately allows the original data to be found and used
by both scientists and the public.