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The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI): Supporting Curation and Archiving of Environmental Data

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Kristin Vanderbilt

Kristin Vanderbilt

Environmental Data Initiative

Kristin Vanderbilt supports the Data Management as a Service activity. Kristin splits her time between the EDI and as an Information Manager of the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER site. She is based at the University of New Mexico.
Colin Smith

Colin Smith

Environmental Data Initiative

Colin is a part of EDI’s data curation team and works with data providers to clean, document, and submit their data to the EDI repository. He also works with the EDI community to develop data management software tools and helps run workshops and training events. Colin works through the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lives in Berkeley CA.
Duane Costa

Duane Costa

Environmental Data Initiative

Duane Costa is a retired team member. He worked as a lead developer for the EDI data repository software until June 2019.
Margaret O

Margaret O'Brien

Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research

Margaret O’Brien is the information manager for the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project (SBC LTER). She is also part of the EDI team where she assists in the design and development of efficient means to assure data submission by community members based on needs assessments and community science priorities. Margaret is based at the University of California at Santa Barbara and may be reached at margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu.
Corinna Gries

Corinna Gries

Environmental Data Initiative

Corinna Gries is Principal Investigator of EDI and is based at the University of Wisconsin. Corinna leads the data curation, outreach and training activities of EDI.
The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to accelerate curation, archiving, and publishing of environmental data. Members of the EDI team will give an overview of EDI’s mission and core activities (data repository, data curation and publishing, data model standardization, metadata pipeline, outreach and data management training). Read more

The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to accelerate curation, archiving, and publishing of environmental data. EDI provides a secure data repository and data curation support for ecological research projects with emphasis on NSF funded programs including Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB), Organization for Biological Field Stations (OBFS), Macrosystems Biology (MSB), and Long Term Ecological Research (LTER). The EDI Data Repository is an extension of the Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture (PASTA) developed originally to house LTER data. EDI is a DataOne member repository (www.dataone.org) and is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org). EDI supports and trains members of the environmental sciences community to archive and publish high-quality data and metadata.

Members of the EDI team will give an overview of EDI’s mission and core activities (data repository, data curation and publishing, data model standardization, metadata pipeline, outreach and data management training).

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