Environmental Data Initiative

Create . Package . Archive . Discover . Reuse

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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

Effects of Copper Sulfate Toxicity on Multiple Phytoplankton and Animals in Standardized Aquatic Microcosms

Taub, F.B. 2022.

The data published in this featured data package were obtained from a study funded by the Food and Drug Administration (1983-1986) to determine if ecosystems could be used to regulate chemicals. The work on this topic was published in several peer-reviewed articles that have been added as journal citations to the data package landing page in the EDI data repository. At the time of publishing this work, the practice of data publishing was not yet established. Publishing the data now ensures that they are preserved and available for re-use in continuing or future studies.

News

A Proposed Enhancement to Data Package Provenance

June 28, 2022

Create more descriptive and machine-actionable provenance linkages between data packages by leveraging the EML schema's support for semantic annotations in conjunction with the currently used...

Workshop at ESA2022: Explore and work with biodiversity data from LTER and NEON

June 13, 2022

Join EDI and NEON staff for a workshop at the ESA/CSEE 2022 meeting: Explore and work with harmonized continental-scale biodiversity data from the US LTER and NEON

EDIutils is on CRAN

June 3, 2022

We are happy to announce the EDIutils R package (an API Client for the Environmental Data Initiative Repository) is now on CRAN. Install from your R Console with install.packages("EDIutils").

New Resource for Information Managers: Adding Physical Metadata

June 3, 2022

Physical metadata such as file size, MD5 checksum, and number of rows in a table, are important pieces of information for verifying the integrity of files after uploads and downloads. When a...