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

Influence of soil amendment and crop species on nutrient cycling in a St. Paul urban garden

Small, G.E. and P. Shrestha. 2023.

Urban agriculture is expanding globally and can recycle nutrients from food waste back into the human food system. However, imbalanced compost application can cause nutrient losses and pollution. This dataset is a part of a larger study investigating nutrient dynamics in urban agriculture and quantifying its impact on the Minneapolis-Saint Paul urban ecosystem (NSF #1651361). This study has provided research opportunities for more than 60 undergraduate students and high school interns.

News

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...

New ezEML Collaboration Features Allow Multiple Users to Edit the Same Data Package

May 17, 2023

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

Planned System Maintenance 17 May 2023

May 10, 2023

The EDI Data Repository, including the EDI Data Portal (portal.edirepository.org) and other production services, will be unavailable on Wednesday 17 May 2023 from 8am to 9pm MDT so that we may...

Operating System upgrades

April 11, 2023

The EDI technical team is planning for a day in the very near future (TBD) of operating system upgrades from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04. This effort will entail a full day of system work, resulting in...