12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising: arranging the at least one identified metadata record in descending order by the calculated proximity score, wherein said arranged metadata records create a listing of proximate dataset results, wherein said arranging of the at least one identified metadata record further comprises: and comparing the calculated proximity score of the at least one identified metadata record to the lower bound of the scale.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the proximity score utilizes a scale having a lower bound and an upper bound denoting a distant match and an exact match 0, respectively, to the user-entered geospatial and temporal search parameters.