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Portal Version 4.3 – User Manual 
V1.0 
 October 2019 
 
Table of Contents 
1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 4 
1.1 Purpose of the Document ....................................................................................................... 4 
1.2 Reference Documents ............................................................................................................. 4 
1.3 Terminology ............................................................................................................................. 4 
2 Approach ......................................................................................................................................... 6 
3 Main User Functions of the Portal .................................................................................................. 6 
3.1 Portal Home Page .................................................................................................................... 8 
3.1.1 How to browse through the Editorial Content of the Portal ......................................... 10 
3.1.2 How to view / search for “Latest News” ....................................................................... 17 
3.1.3 How to view / search for “Open Data Events” .............................................................. 18 
3.1.4 How to subscribe to the EDP Newsletter ...................................................................... 19 
3.1.5 How to view “Tweets” on the EDP ................................................................................ 20 
3.1.6 How to switch to another User Language ..................................................................... 21 
3.1.7 How to search for EDP Site Content .............................................................................. 22 
3.1.8 How to Search for Datasets by Data Category .............................................................. 23 
3.1.9 How to Search for Datasets by Keyword ....................................................................... 25 
3.2 Datasets (Data Platform) ....................................................................................................... 26 
3.2.1 Entering the Datasets-View ........................................................................................... 27 
3.2.2 How to filter datasets by using “Faceted Search” ......................................................... 27 
3.2.3 How to store personal queries ...................................................................................... 29 
3.2.4 How to filter datasets by geographical area ................................................................. 31 
3.2.5 How to download dataset distributions ........................................................................ 33 
3.2.6 How to view licensing information ................................................................................ 34 
3.2.7 How to switch to another user language ...................................................................... 36 
3.2.8 How to browse by data catalogues ............................................................................... 37 
3.3 Visualization of Geo-Spatial Data (map.apps) ....................................................................... 38 
3.3.1 How to visualize geo-spatial data from a dataset resource .......................................... 38 
3.4 Graphical Data Visualisation Tool .......................................................................................... 43 
3.4.1 How to visualize graphical data from a dataset resource ............................................. 43