Hubbard Brook Investigators and Grad Students,

Below is a snippet of text you may want to use in future Data Management Plans. This will definitely apply if you are collecting data at Hubbard Brook, and may apply to your other work if you choose to use the EDI repository - EDI isn't limited to LTER data! (ask me about that if you want to know more). We describe the Hubbard Brook data holdings in detail in our LTER reports, but it is likely that your work at Hubbard Brook is also supported by other grants. With just a little wordsmithing, the same can be used when reporting that you have submitted project data to EDI. Since our data types and content cover a broad range, there may be situations where additional detail could be added - in those cases, I'd be happy to help you customize this text.

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Data from this project will be made available in the Environmental Data Initiative repository (EDI; https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/). To enable discovery and usability of these data, the EDI submissions will be prepared following the Best Practices for Dataset Metadata in Ecological Metadata Language (EML; https://ediorg.github.io/data-package-best-practices/EMLmetadata/), use keywords aligned with controlled vocabularies (LTER, USDA Forest Service, and ISO 19115), fully describe all data table attributes, reference funding sources, and include  temporal, geographic, and taxonomic coverages. These steps, and features and services of the EDI repository, help to align our data with FAIR data practices (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable; Wilkinson 2016). EDI further publishes these data through the DataONE federation - at both EDI and DataONE, these data can be discovered via a sophisticated search interface and manually or programmatically downloaded. The EDI repository fully supports immutability and strong versioning of datasets with all older versions being available for auditing and reproducibility. Each dataset version is provided its own unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which is registered by DataCite and resolvable through the International DOI Foundation (IDF).

Wilkinson, M., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, I. et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Sci Data 3, 160018 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18

Mary Martin
Hubbard Brook Information Manager
Earth Systems Research Center          
Morse Hall, Univ of NH                  
Durham, NH 03824                       
Voice:  603 862 4508