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US National Science Foundation

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The Challenge: The Environmental Sciences Community needed a trusted, high-standard data repository, curation service center, and clearinghouse to secure national data assets and address the problem of valuable environmental data being locked away in disparate, unstable storage silos.

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The Solution: Through funding provided by The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology (NSF-DEB), EDI met the challenge. Since 2018, the EDI Repository has served as this strategic national and international asset for the NSF-DEB environmental science community, providing essential curation services and acting as a central clearinghouse.

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The Impact & Outcomes:

  • EDI now houses 87,000 data packages from NSF-DEB, becoming a secured national data asset.

  • It facilitates nearly 10,000 package downloads per week, with significant international user activity (60% US and 40% international).

  • EDI actively addresses data silos, ensuring empowering data is accessible rather than trapped.

  • EDI is progressing toward becoming the global leader of environmental data collaboration, strengthening the position of US environmental data accessibility.

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