Environmental Data Initiative

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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.

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

Long-term demographic data on voles, Microtus ochrogaster and Microtus pennsylvanicus, from east-central Illinois (1972 to 1997)

Getz, L.L. 2024.

Lowell Getz, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, served in the Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution from 1969 to 1997. During his tenure, he conducted an exceptional 25-year study (1972-1997) on the population dynamics of two vole species: the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) and the meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus). Over the course of the study, the populations of the two vole species were monitored monthly in three distinct habitats in the University of Illinois Biological Research Area and the Trelease Prairie, using wooden multiple-capture live-traps. Additionally, social groups of voles were monitored over a 63-month period, from March 1982 to May 1987 twice weekly. Noteworthy aspects of this study include the involvement of 49 paid assistants and 1,063 unpaid undergraduate volunteers. The traps were set and collected 2,320,300 times, resulting in the release of 236,700 voles. Throughout the entire period, Dr. Getz took only 28 days off, and those were for medical reasons.

News

Request for Comment: Expanding the List of Supported Date and Time Formats for Congruence Checks

December 5, 2024

New Guidelines for Defining Data Package Replication

October 9, 2024

Ensuring data consumers are aware of replicated data across repositories is crucial for reducing data user confusion, data misuse and errors, and inefficiencies for data harvesters.

Updates to the ezEML Metadata Editor

May 1, 2024

Many of you are already familiar with the ezEML Metadata Editor developed at the EDI Repository, but for those that need an introduction, it has become a very easy but powerful way to publish your...

Greg Maurer is Joining the EDI Team

November 30, 2023

We are excited to announce that Greg Maurer is joining the growing EDI team. Greg joins us part-time from the Jornada Basin LTER site, where he is and will continue to be an ecologist, data...