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

NEON soil inorganic nitrogen measurements 2017-2020, derived data and code for Earth's Future manuscript

Weintraub-Leff, S.R., S.J. Hall, and M. Craig. 2023.

Nitrogen (N) is a key limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems, but there remain critical gaps in our ability to predict and model controls on soil N cycling. The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is producing continental scale, standardized measurements of soil nitrogen pools and transformation rates, which can help fill these gaps. Yet even for a network using uniform protocols, there are some methodological/analytical challenges in generating this open dataset.

News

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.

EDI is Now a CoreTrustSeal Certified Repository

June 15, 2023

EDI is pleased to announce that we have been certified as a Trustworthy Data Repository by the CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board. Certified repositories offer active long-term...

EDI Repository Upgrade now complete

May 30, 2023

The EDI technical team completed a major upgrade over the past few weeks by upgrading all repository and secondary servers from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 22.04. This upgrade affected all repository...