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2 Approach 
The approach used for this User Manual was based on the identification of the main user functions of 
the Portal and the description of each function from the user’s perspective in terms of “How to…”.  
Each main function documentation consists of a screen snapshot, the steps required to execute the 
function and optionally a screenshot with the results. 
3 Main User Functions of the Portal 
This section describes all of the main user functions supported by the Portal Version 3.0. 
The table 1-3 below lists the described functions by module. 
 Module Name Function 
1 Portal HomePage 
- How to browse through the Editorial Content 
(how to access Resources on Open Data: eLearning 
modules, Training Companion, Reports about Open 
Data) 
- How to view / search for “Latest News” 
- How to view / search for “Open Data Events” 
- How to subscribe to the EDP Newsletter 
- How to view “Tweets” on the EDP 
- How to switch to another User Language 
- How to search for EDP Site Content 
- How to search for Datasets by Data Category 
- How to search for Datasets by Keyword 
2 Datasets (Data Platform) Entering the Datasets-View  
  How to filter datasets by using “Faceted Search” 
  How to store personal queries 
  How to filter datasets by geographical area 
  How to download dataset distributions 
  How to view licensing information 
  How to switch to another user language 
  How to browse by data catalogues 
3 Visualization of Geo-Spatial 
Data (map.apps) 
How to visualize geo-spatial data from a dataset resource 
4 Graphical Data Visualisation 
Tool 
How to visualize graphical data from a dataset resource 
5 Help Desk How to contact The Portal’s Help Desk 
6 Metadata Quality Assurance 
(MQA) 
Monitoring tool for the metadata quality: 
‐ The Global Dashboard View 
‐ The Catalogue details view 
7 SPARQL Manager How to run SPARQL Queries using: 
- SPARQL Search