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California Department of Water Resources

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The Challenge: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) had a goal to make their environmental data findable, accessible, and reusable, in order to promote  collaborative research, transparency, and effective natural resource management. They needed a robust, reliable infrastructure to support their critical work.

 

The EDI Solution: DWR selected EDI after a thorough review, recognizing our commitment to excellent customer support, robust version control, rigorous metadata standards, and the assignment of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). EDI provided the trusted repository infrastructure DWR needed.

 

The Impact & Outcomes:

 

  • DWR now houses over 50 critical datasets on EDI, enabling complex data analysis and synthesis studies.

  • This has directly led to numerous publications and reports that significantly influence state and federal management decisions.

  • EDI is now used for real-time water management to protect endangered salmon populations.

  • DWR is developing public dashboards linked directly to EDI, enhancing transparency and public service.

  • EDI has become the "gold standard" for data repositories for DWR, empowering them to make informed decisions and better serve the public.

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Figure 1. Salmon data management system architecture describing the integration of salmonid monitoring data and genetics data. EDI is utilized as the public repository for data maintained in cloud-based private databases. EDI is also utilized as a data source for salmonid data not yet being collected electronically through the DataTackle data entry tablet application.

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