Environmental Data Initiative

Create . Package . Archive . Discover . Reuse

Publish Data Find Data

Our Vision

Scientific discovery fueled by data commons accessible to everyone.

Our Mission

Preserve environmental data for open and reproducible science, to promote synthesis across space and time, and to aid in the assessment of environmental change and its consequences.

What We Provide

Information Rich Metadata

Quickly understand a dataset and evaluate its fitness for reuse in new research.

Quality Data for Reuse

Open-access to a thematically diverse collection of environmental data.

Tools to Support Research

Useful tools for publishing and reusing data in the research life cycle.

Secure & Persistent Archive

Guaranteed immutability of all data for long-term access, transparency, and reuse.

Timely One-on-One Support

Around-the-clock support on topics from data curation to software design.

Citation & Attribution

Automatically updated research profiles and data linked to journal articles.

Enhanced Discovery

Data discoverable in the DataONE and Google Dataset Search Engines reach broad audiences.

Data Exploration & Analysis

Intuitive data exploration tools for deeper insights into published data packages.

Analysis Ready Data

Accelerated integration and synthesis of data through thematic standardization.

Workflow Automation

REST API for automating data publication, reporting, and reproducible science.

Training & Skill Building

Based on 40+ years of information management expertise, including from the U.S. LTER Network.

Personalized Data Catalogs

A searchable index of select data publications to embed within a project website.

Featured Data

Data packages published by EDI's 2022 Summer Fellows

Garretson, A.C., J. Disney, M.A. Maniscalco, A. Farrell, C. Bailey, J. Matt, U. Arora, M. Armstrong, S. Pratt, N. Dorn, and F. Durand. 2022.

We awarded 14 fellowships for our fifth ecological data management training program (20 June - 19 August 2022). The Fellows received training in ecological data management during a three-day online data publishing workshop and gained hands-on experience through participation in data preparation and publishing with scientists and information managers from specific host research projects, spanning diverse ecosystems across the country, from Maine’s Mount Desert Island to Puerto Rico’s Luquillo Mountains to the Palmyra Atoll in the central Pacific. Our Fellows published a number of data packages.

News

"Robot" Based Events are No Longer Recorded in the Audit Event Log

December 6, 2022

As of 23 November 2022, the EDI data repository no longer registers "robot"-based events in the Audit "event log" database table. This planned omission aims to reduce the growth of the "event log"...

Alignment of the LTER Controlled Vocabulary and Environment Ontology

November 17, 2022

In a step towards improved data search and discovery, EDI has mapped the US LTER Controlled Vocabulary to the Environment Ontology (ENVO). This alignment enables LTER keywords to be translated...

An indepth look at EDI's Data Explorer (DEX)

November 1, 2022

Last month’s webinar is now on YouTube and provides an overview of the DEX architecture and a demonstration of how DEX works on actual data. The webinar was presented by Roger Dahl, DEX's lead...

Webinar "An indepth look at EDI's Data Explorer (DEX)", 18 October 2022 @ 3:00 pm ET

October 11, 2022

This month’s webinar will cover an indepth perspective of EDI's Data Explorer (DEX) and will be presented by Roger Dahl, DEX's lead developer, and Mark Servilla.