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

LakeBeD-US: Ecology Edition - a benchmark dataset of lake water quality time series and vertical profiles

McAfee, B.J., M.E. Lofton, A. Breef-Pilz, K.J. Goodman, R.T. Hensley, K.K. Hoffman, D.W. Howard, A.S. Lewis, D.M. McKnight, I.A. Oleksy, H.L. Wander, C.C. Carey, A. Karpatne, and P.C. Hanson. 2024.

One of EDI's key focus areas is developing analysis-ready data to accelerate data integration for synthesis science in ecological and environmental research. To address the variability in original data, our standardization process harmonizes data into common formats, units, quality standards, and file types. Current projects, ecocomDP and hymetDP, involve collaborations with LTER sites, NEON, CUAHSI, and GBIF.

News

EDI is moving to the cloud!

January 17, 2025

The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is on a new infrastructure journey, starting in late 2024 and estimated to be completed in early 2025.

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

December 5, 2024

The EML Congruence Checker (ECC) and the ezEML Check Data Tables provide critical validation services to verify the accuracy and consistency of data packages before publication in the EDI Data...

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...