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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.


No Fellowship Program in 2023

March 1, 2023

Due to a change in focus, we are pausing the EDI Fellowship Program until further notice and will place our effort towards alternative approaches of supporting information management and data...

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EDI releases beta version of EMLvp

February 17, 2023

EDI is excited to release a beta version of EMLvp (EML validator and parser). EMLvp is a Python 3 library and command line application that validates and parses Ecological Metadata Language XML...

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Recent Additions to ezEML

December 16, 2022

We're continually enhancing and improving our online ezEML application. Here are some recent noteworthy additions.

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"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"...

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