Collaborative Research: Environmental Data Initiative: Sustaining the Legacy of Scientific Data

环境数据倡议（EDI）促进公布由公共资助的研究项目产生的环境数据。EDI的使命是确保公共资助的科学数据的长期生存能力和遗产，致力于使环境数据可查找、可访问、可互操作和可重用（FAIR）。EDI提供支持、培训和资源，以帮助归档和发布高质量的数据和元数据，为数据提供者提供问责制和透明度，同时通过大数据分析打开了回答新问题的大门。EDI积极参与国内和国际数据管理员社区，以促进数据管理的最佳实践和管理。服务的项目包括但不限于，环境生物学长期研究（LTREB），生物野外站组织（OBFS），宏观系统生物学（MSB）和长期生态研究（LTER）在NSF环境生物学部门。EDI是新墨西哥大学和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的数据从业者、软件开发人员和研究科学家之间的一项合作成果，旨在为生态研究人员提供全面的数据存档和出版服务。为了实现电子数据交换的整体目标，该项目着重于(1)根据环境科学界的需要提供管理和培训服务，以及(2)支持和维护最先进的数据存储库。EDI服务包括由在环境和生态数据科学方面经验丰富的实践者直接管理数据文件、在数据管理实践和向存储库提供数据的数据存档工作流程方面进行社区培训，以及开发用于创建科学元数据的软件。团队成员在数据科学最佳实践和软件框架（包括RStudio和Jupyter Notebooks）方面经验丰富，并且是经过认证的数据和软件木工讲师。EDI数据存储库背后的PASTA+软件基于面向服务的体系结构（SOA）。EDI数据存储库设计得简单、持久、可扩展，并且与FAIR指导原则一致。EDI创建了一个功能丰富、面向公众的数据门户，为存储库提供了一个用户友好的web浏览器界面，允许用户评估和上传数据，发现和查看数据及相关元数据。Data Portal还可以作为Java中的完整参考实现，用于指导其他软件开发人员使用PASTA+应用程序编程接口，该接口使开发人员能够直接与最低级别的存储库进行交互。这些技术和服务旨在促进科学数据的持久性和使用，并确保所有环境科学家都能获得高质量的数据管理和出版服务。EDI存储库可以在https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/.This上找到，它反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) facilitates the publication of environmental data generated by publicly funded research projects. With a mission to ensure the long-term viability and legacy of publicly funded scientific data, EDI is committed to making environmental data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). EDI provides support, training, and resources to help archive and publish high-quality data and metadata, providing accountability and transparency to data providers, while opening the door to answering new questions through Big Data analyses. EDI is actively engaged in the national and international community of data curators to promote data management best practices and stewardship. Programs served include, but are not limited to, Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB), Organization for Biological Field Stations (OBFS), MacroSystems Biology (MSB), and Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) within the NSF Division of Environmental Biology.EDI is a collaborative effort among data practitioners, software developers, and research scientists at the University of New Mexico and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to provide a comprehensive data archive and publication service for ecological researchers. To achieve the overall mission of EDI, the project focuses on (1) curation and training services tailored to the needs of the environmental sciences community and (2) the support and maintenance of a state-of-the-art data repository. EDI services include direct management of data documentation by practitioners experienced in environmental and ecological data science, community training in data management practices and data archive workflows for contributing data to the repository, and software development for the creation of scientific metadata. Team members are experienced in data science best practices and software frameworks, including RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks, and are certified data and software Carpentry instructors. The PASTA+ software behind the EDI data repository is based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The EDI data repository is designed to be simple, durable, extensible, and congruent with the FAIR guiding principles. EDI has created a feature-rich, public-facing Data Portal that provides a user-friendly web-browser interface to the repository, allowing users to evaluate and upload data, and discover and view data and associated metadata. The Data Portal also serves as a complete reference implementation in Java for guiding other software developers on the use of the PASTA+ application programming interface which enables developers to interact directly with the repository at its lowest level. These technologies and services are designed to promote the persistence and use of scientific data and to ensure that all environmental scientists have access to high-quality data curation and publication services. The EDI repository may be found at https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.