Data and code for EDI overview paper, data collection characteristics, FAIR evaluation, downloads, and citations

The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is a trustworthy, stable data repository and data management support organization for the environmental scientist. EDI provides tools and support that allow the environmental researcher to easily integrate data publishing into the research workflow. Almost ten years since going into production, these data and code were used to provide a general description of EDI’s collection of data and its data management philosophy and placement in the repository landscape. They show how comprehensive metadata and the repository infrastructure lead to highly findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data by evaluating compliance with specific community proposed FAIR criteria. Finally, they provide measures and patterns of data (re)use, assuring that EDI is fulfilling its stated premise.