DataONE, the Data Observation Network for Earth is “the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data. [about dataONE] “ It is a collaboration of universities and government agencies, organizing and serving vast amounts of highly diverse and interrelated scientific data. Through a $20 million award from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF), this community-driven organization features nodes at the University of New Mexico, UC Santa Barbara, and University of Tennessee, and the California Digital Library (CDL) with searchable access to data, and ability for funders, users, developers, educators, and any other stakeholders to gather and contribute to DataONE products and services. Check out their data, education, resources or how you can participate!
