We’d like your feedback on a new EMLassemblyline feature that supports annotation of both new and existing EML documents. Continue reading “RFC: Annotating EML with the EMLassemblyline R package”
News
Operations of the EDI data repository will continue as normal during this COVID-19 health crisis
Dear EDI user,
Just a short note reassuring you that operations of the EDI data repository will continue as normal during this COVID-19 health crisis. All systems are monitored remotely by our technical team through our system dashboard, and we are alerted to any infrastructure faults by automated notifications. In the event of a hardware issue that does require onsite presence, we will do our best to address any problems as expeditiously as possible given current health and safety restrictions in place by the State of New Mexico. We thank you for your continued support and patience during these extraordinary times. Comments or questions may be directed to support@environmentaldatainitiative.org.
Sincerely,
The EDI technical team
The Summer Fellowship Program of the Environmental Data Initiative
The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) assists researchers from field stations, individual laboratories, and research projects of all sizes to archive and publish their environmental data. EDI’s very successful Summer Fellowship Program for Data Management Training is one component of our Outreach and Training program. For the third consecutive year, EDI is reviewing applications from interested undergraduate and graduate students to become an EDI summer fellow. This year we are seeking nine fellows to be trained in the data publishing process and to support 9 research sites in their efforts to manage their data. EDI’s aim is to ensure that these young professionals learn state-of-the-art data stewardship practices. Continue reading “The Summer Fellowship Program of the Environmental Data Initiative”
EDI Update – February 2020
Cite: A lightweight citation service for data packages in the EDI data repository
The EDI technical team has released Cite, a lightweight web-service that generates citations for data packages archived in the EDI data repository. Cite is simple to use and requires only the EDI data package identifier appended to the end of the Cite URL: “https://cite.edirepository.org/cite/”. For example, the URL “https://cite.edirepository.org/cite/edi.460.1”, when entered into a web-browser query field, returns the following ESIP-stylized citation:
Armitage, A.R., C.A. Weaver, J.S. Kominoski, and S.C. Pennings. 2020.
Hurricane Harvey: Coastal wetland plant responses and recovery in Texas: 2014-2019 ver 1.
Environmental Data Initiative.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/e288ccaf55afceecc29bdf0a341248d6">
https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/e288ccaf55afceecc29bdf0a341248d6</a>.
Citations are generated from information found in the data package’s EML document, including the title and creator elements, and from resource information in the EDI data repository, namely the repository name, archive date, data package revision value, and digital object identifier (DOI). This information is then stylized (think “layout”) according to recommended best practices published by community organizations, such as ESIP. Citations are formatted (think “presentation”) based on the mime-type set into the HTTP request accept header field. In the above example, the citation is formatted with HTML attributes, as demonstrated by the anchor tags and HREF surrounding the DOI URL string, since the web-browser automatically requests that responses be returned as “text/html”. Cite also supports additional citation styles (Dryad, BibTex, and raw JSON) and output mime-type formats (text/plain and application/json). Design of the Cite service framework allows new styles and formats to be added with relative ease. The motivation for Cite is to provide a consistent and simple interface for generating citations from data packages found in the EDI data repository. Cite is now being used in the EDI Data Portal to display citations on the data package metadata summary pages (aka, “landing pages”). Details of the Cite web-service can be found at https://github.com/PASTAplus/cite.
