We are excited to announce the latest ESS-DIVE updates, including:
- Request Community Data Curator Support
- Reminder: File Level Metadata v1.1.0 is now live and available on GitHub and GitBook
- Save the date for our Webinar on BER Integration, March 18, 2025
- Updates to website and features
- Publication service interruption expected Spring 2025
- Metrics Summary
Request Community Data Curator Support
One of our new Community Fund Projects is the ESS Community Data Curator. Kim Ely (LBNL) will assist ESS-DIVE data contributors in how to curate high-quality datasets using ESS-DIVE reporting formats, improve data curation workflows, and provide training or advice regarding project data management.
The ESS Community Data Curator will be available through September 2025 when the project ends. Take advantage of this opportunity for ESS Community Data Curator now while you can.
To request ESS Community Data Curator support, use the ESS-DIVE Contact Us form and select the “Community Data Curator” category, or email ess-dive-support@lbl.gov directly and provide details about what you need help with.
Reporting Format: File Level Metadata (FLMD) v1.1.0
As a reminder, version 1.1.0 of the File Level Metadata reporting format was released in September 2024, which addresses feedback from early adopters in the community. Importantly, version 1.1.0 is backward compatible with the original version (version 1.0.0), and as such, the Fusion Database can read and parse file level metadata (flmd) and data dictionary (dd) files following both versions.
Save the Date: ESS-DIVE Webinar on BER Integration – March 18
Save the date to attend our webinar on March 18, 10-11 am PT, which will provide the latest on work within ESS-DIVE and other BER data systems toward BER integration. We will send a webinar announcement soon.
Website and Feature Updates
Status Page
- Visit ESS-DIVE’s new status page to see if there are any scheduled service outages and plan your data publication timeline: https://ess-dive.lbl.gov/status/.
Dataset API
We have released enhancements to the Dataset API, ESS-DIVE’s programmatic tool for searching, submitting, and sharing data. Try out the Dataset API with our easy-to-use tutorials that demonstrate its various applications.
- Bug Fixes:
- Addressed access issues when programmatically requesting publication
- Corrected error in dataset citations reported by the Dataset API
- Fixed DOI and dataset statuses reported for older dataset versions
- Enables view of dataset permissions for previous dataset versions
New search tool: Deep Dive API!
- The Deep Dive API enhances data discovery in ESS-DIVE by searching within data files.
- Not all files are searchable using the Deep Dive API. Datasets must use ESS-DIVE reporting formats and be successfully parsed by the Fusion Database. See our documentation for details.
- Try out this search tool with our complete Deep Dive API tutorial
(hint: launch the tutorial directly in your browser with the Google Collab button)
Publication service interruption expected Spring 2025
ESS-DIVE’s underlying publication management services will be interrupted in Spring 2025 due to the DOE’s Office of Science and Technical Information (OSTI) services being unavailable. ESS-DIVE manages DOI’s through OSTI and we will not be able to reserve DOIs or publish datasets during this service interruption.
If you need to publish a dataset during Spring 2025, we recommend submitting publication requests and reserving DOIs sooner rather than later to allow time for the complete review cycle. All other ESS-DIVE services will be available.
Stay tuned for more information on this upcoming publication outage.
Metrics Summary
ESS-DIVE’s Quarterly Metrics Summary captures our user numbers to-date. The percent growth covers the period between January 2024 and January 2025.
