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

The Lake Trophic State - US (LTS-US) Dataset

Meyer, M.F., S.N. Topp, T.V. King, R. Ladwig, R.M. Pilla, H.A. Dugan, J.R. Eggleston, S.E. Hampton, D.M. Leech, I.A. Oleksy, J.C. Ross, M.R. Ross, R.I. Woolway, X. Yang, M.R. Brousil, K.C. Fickas, J.C. Padowski, A.I. Pollard, J. Ren, and J.A. Zwart. 2023.

This data package is an excellent example of using merging remote sensing, in situ, national-scale sampling campaigns, and discipline-specific expertise to expand the spatial and temporal scope of freshwater science.

News

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...

New ezEML Features

November 14, 2023

EDI’s ezEML web application has some new features we’d like to highlight.

Planned System Maintenance September 13-14, 2023

August 30, 2023

The EDI data repository will be unavailable due to planned hardware maintenance at the University of New Mexico from Wednesday, September 13, 2023, through Thursday, September 14, 2023. This means...

New ezEML Collaboration Features Let Multiple Users Edit the Same Data Package

June 15, 2023

EDI has released new ezEML features to let multiple users collaborate in creating maintaining, and curating ezEML documents.