The Environmental Data Initiative: Connecting the past to the future through data reuse.

ABSTRACT: The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is a trustworthy, stable data repository, and data management support organization for the environmental scientist. In a bottom-up community process, EDI was built with the premise that freely and easily available data are necessary to advance the understanding of complex environmental processes and change, to improve transparency of research results, and to democratize ecological research. EDI provides tools and support that allow the environmental researcher to easily integrate data publishing into the research workflow. Almost ten years since going into production, we analyze metadata to provide a general description of EDI's collection of data and its data management philosophy and placement in the repository landscape. We discuss how comprehensi

SUBMITTER: Gries C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9817195 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature