Data Package
A collection of related data files and metadata. These may be data from a sensor or a network of sensors, data from a field campaign or experiment, software for analysis or modeling, model setup and results.
Metadata
Descriptive information about data files necessary for the reuse of data. Metadata should thoroughly describe the data
ORCiD
The Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier provides anyone a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that distinguishes researchers from one another and provides a record that supports automatic links among all professional activities.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
A unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency (e.g., The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)) to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the internet. ESS-DIVE assigns a DOI when your data package is published and made available electronically.
ESS-DIVE: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
The Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) is a U.S. DOE data archive for earth and environmental science data. We manage data, models and software generated from research on terrestrial and subsurface environments spanning bedrock to canopy, across a range of scientific disciplines including hydro(geo)logy, geophysics, biogeochemistry, climate, and ecology. Our mission is to archive the data and and make it publicly available for advanced data search, retrieval and analysis. ESS-DIVE is supported by the DOE’s Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research.
CDIAC: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), was a U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) climate change data and information analysis center, located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). CDIAC operated as an archive for over 30 years ending in September 2017. CDIAC’s data holdings have been transferred to ESS-DIVE.
ESS: Environmental Systems Science
A U.S. DOE Office of Science program under the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Program. The Environmental System Science activity seeks to advance a robust predictive understanding of terrestrial surface and subsurface ecosystems, within a domain that extends from the bedrock to the top of the vegetated canopy and from molecular to global scales.
DOE: Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy is a Cabinet-level department of the United States whose mission is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.
NERSC: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the primary scientific computing facility for the Office of Science in the DOE.
ESGF: Earth System Grid Federation
The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a collaboration that develops, deploys and maintains software infrastructure for the management, dissemination, and analysis of model output and observational data. It is an interagency and international effort led by the DOE, and co-funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and international laboratories such as the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ), the Australian National University (ANU) National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), and the British Atmospheric Data Center (BADC).
NCEAS: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
NCEAS is a research center of the University of California, Santa Barbara whose mission is (1) rapidly advance ecological knowledge through analysis and synthesis of existing data to address critical environmental challenges for the benefit of nature and the well-being of people; (2) provide computing solutions to enable networked scientific collaboration by leveraging NCEAS’ innovation and leadership in informatics; and (3) promote the skills, knowledge and collaborative culture among scientists, policy-makers, and resource managers necessary for transformative research and to speed application.
DataONE: Data Observation Network for Earth
Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that provides open and secure access to Earth observational data. DataONE is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
OSTI: Office of Scientific and Technical Information
The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), a unit of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, partners with ESS-DIVE on providing Digital Object Identifiers and metadata enhancement for data packages submitted to ESS-DIVE.
BASIN-3D
Broker for Assimilation, Synthesis and Integration of eNvironmental Diverse, Distributed Datasets (BASIN-3D) is a tool to integrate diverse datasets by retrieving and transforming heterogeneous data from different data sources for on-demand queries into a common format.
Community Fund Partners
Funded DOE ESS community members partnering with ESS-DIVE to address ESS data management needs.
Contributing Projects
Projects registered with ESS-DIVE that have submitted data.
Dataset API
ESS-DIVE’s REST API for programmatic and bulk dataset management, search, and download.
External Links
Links that can be specified as part of the dataset metadata to connect data, software, and metadata hosted by external repositories that relate to a dataset on ESS-DIVE.
File-Level Metadata (FLMD)
A set of metadata files to describe dataset files and their contents.
Fusion Database (FusionDB)
ESS-DIVE service that extracts, indexes, and serves data from files with standardized data and metadata following ESS-DIVE reporting formats.
Metadata UnderLying ESS-DIVE (MULE)
An internal metadata service to manage ESS-DIVE user, project, and related information.
Portals
User-defined, customizable views of data within ESS-DIVE enabling aggregated collections, tailored searches, and filtering within specific themes or projects.
Private Dataset
Datasets that are only visible to the dataset creator, by default.
Project Data Manager
A role linked to a specific project, enabling registered users to create and manage teams and submit support requests on behalf of the project PI.
Project Spaces
A cross-section of features that supports project-level management of data and users, enabling PIs and their designates to manage collaborative data access and curation.
Project Teams
A group of ESS-DIVE users managed by a project PI or data manager.
Public Dataset
Published datasets that are available to the public for view and download and have undergone a review by ESS-DIVE to ensure metadata meet expected quality criteria.
Registered Users
Also known as “Data Contributors,” these are individuals who have received approval from ESS-DIVE to store, edit, and manage datasets on ESS-DIVE.
Registered Projects
Projects that are approved to store data on ESS-DIVE and are formally registered with consistent project information for reference and use in ESS-DIVE features. ESS-funded projects are registered by default.
Reporting Formats
Metadata and formatting guidelines and templates developed by ESS-DIVE and our community partners for formatting data consistently that can enable data harmonization and synthesis.. This term is used interchangeably with “standard.”
Tier 1 Storage
ESS-DIVE’s primary storage layer for data and all metadata ensuring verification, data lineage and provenance versioning, plus a high level of data redundancy.
Tier 2 Storage
ESS-DIVE’s secondary storage layer supporting large, multi-terabyte datasets with hierarchical structures, emphasizing accessibility and scalability.