logo DataONE is a network of interoperable data repositories facilitating

data sharing Data sharing is the practice of making data used for scholarly research available to other investigators. Many funding agencies, institutions, and publication venues have policies regarding data sharing because transparency and openness are consid ...

, data discovery, and

open science Open science is the movement to make scientific research (including publications, data, physical samples, and software) and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society, amateur or professional. Open science is transparent and accessib ...

. Originally supported by $21.2 million in funding from the US

National Science Foundation The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an Independent agencies of the United States government#Examples of independent agencies, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government that su ...

as one of the initial DataNet programs in 2009, funding was renewed in 2014 through 2020 with an additional $15 million. DataONE helps preserve, access, use, and reuse of multi-discipline scientific data through the construction of primary cyberinfrastructure and an education and outreach program. DataONE provides scientific data archiving for ecological and environmental data produced by scientists. DataONE's goal is to preserve and provide access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national data. Users include scientists, ecosystem managers, policy makers, students, educators, librarians, and the public. DataONE links together existing cyberinfrastructure to provide a distributed framework, management, and technologies that enable long-term preservation of multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national observational data. The distributed framework is composed of Coordinating Nodes located at the Oak Ridge Campus at Tennessee,

University of California Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers college, UCSB joined ...

, and

University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM; ) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Founded in 1889 by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature, it is the state's second oldest university, a flagship university in th ...

, and member nodes. DataONE also provides resources including tools for accessing and using it.

Coordinating nodes

The three coordinating nodes provide network-wide services to member nodes. They are geographically replicated, with mirrored content and full copies of science

metadata Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive ...

. William Michener of the

(UNM) directed the project, and UNM is one of the coordinating nodes. Coordinating nodes are UNM, Oak Ridge Campus (partnership of Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL) and

University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (or The University of Tennessee; UT; UT Knoxville; or colloquially UTK or Tennessee) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United St ...

), and the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

Member nodes

Member nodes consist of Earth observing institutions, projects, and networks. They provide resources for their own data and replicated data, and focus on serving their specific constituencies. These member nodes are geographically distributed and include: * Cornell Lab of Ornithology

eBird eBird is an online database of bird observations providing scientists, researchers and amateur naturalists with real-time data about bird distribution and abundance. Originally restricted to sightings from the Western Hemisphere, the project e ...

Dryad A dryad (; , sing. ) is an oak tree nymph or oak tree spirit in Greek mythology; ''Drys'' (δρῦς) means "tree", and more specifically " oak" in Greek. Today the term is often used to refer to tree nymphs in general. Types Daphnaie Thes ...

* Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) * Environmental Data for the Oak Ridge Area (EDORA) *

Ecological Society of America The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a professional organization of ecological scientists. Based in the United States and founded in 1915, ESA publications include peer-reviewed journals, newsletters, fact sheets, and teaching resources. I ...

(ESA) Data Registry * Europe Long-Term Ecosystem Research Network (LTER Europe) * Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) * Gulf of Alaska Data Portal *

International Arctic Research Center The International Arctic Research Center, or IARC, established in 1999, is a research institution focused on integrating and coordinating study of Climate change in the Arctic. The primary partners in IARC are Japan and the United States. Partic ...

(IARC) Data Archive * Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity * Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) * Merritt Repository *

Minnesota Population Center The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a university-wide interdisciplinary research center at the University of Minnesota. MPC was established in 2000, absorbing two earlier population research organizations. The primary goals of the center are t ...

(MPC) * Montana IoE Data Repository * Nevada Research Data Center * New Mexico Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NM EPSCoR) * NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Oceanographic Dat
Archive
* ONEShare Repository * ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center * Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) * Program for Research on Biodiversity (PPPBio) * Regional and Global Biogeochemical Dynamics Data (RGD) * SANParks Data Repository * SEAD Virtual Archive *

Taiwan Forestry Research Institute The Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (TFRI; ) is a research institute under the Ministry of Agriculture of Taiwan dealing with forestry. History The Taipei Botanical Garden was originally established as a nursery on 6 January 1896 during th ...

* Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) * University of Kansas - Biodiversity Institute * USA National Phenology Network * USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC)

Investigator Tool Kit

The Tool Kit provides tools for researchers to access DataONE. These are both general purpose and discipline-specific tools, and developers adapt existing tools where possible. The tool kit includes

Java Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...

and Python libraries, an

R programming language R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. It has been widely adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics, data analysis, and data science. The core R language is extended by a large number of so ...

plug-in for analysis, extensions for Excel, the VisTrails scientific workflow, and the Kepler scientific workflow system.

Data management

DataONE provides a place for scientists to store data and its associated

. The metadata makes this data searchable and accessible to other scientists. Data management practices include * Data management planning * Data acquisition (techniques, protocols, methods) * Data protection (backing up) * Data entry and manipulation (naming files, organization)

Matlab MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementat ...

, R * Quality control on data * Data analysis * Workflow tools ( VisTrails, Kepler scientific workflow system) * Data documentation (

) * Data sharing, citation, and discovery * Data preservation and curation Some of the additional data management planning resources include: a primer for best practices, a database for best practices in data management, educational modules and tutorials, webinars, and an investigator toolkit. These have been used or adapted for use under Creative Commons license by organizations and institutions that seek to educate other communities about data and research management. Understanding different audiences of users led to the development of possible user personas as models for users such as early-career researchers, science data librarians, citizen scientists or K-12 educators.

Collaborations

DataONE collaborates with other institutions to bring together tools that help with

data management Data management comprises all disciplines related to handling data as a valuable resource, it is the practice of managing an organization's data so it can be analyzed for decision making. Concept The concept of data management emerged alongsi ...

practices. One of those tools, developed in collaboration with other organizations and hosted by the University of California Digital Curation Center, is the DMPTool for data management planning. The DMP Tool is used by and referenced by many research data management plans and institutions in the US and around the world. Another recent collaboration in this area is the shared construction of a Data Management Training Clearinghouse for Earth sciences, in partnership with USGS and the Community for Data Integration (CDI).

Community

The DataONE community includes research networks, professional societies, libraries, academic institutions, data centers, data repositories, environmental observatory networks, educators, scientists, policy makers, administrators, citizen scientists, international organizations, NGOs, ecosystem managers, students, private companies and the public. DataONE has a users group that meets yearly to provide feedback.

References

External links

Nature.com

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