Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE): Report on our First 18 Months

The ESS-DIVE archive is a Department of Energy (DOE) data archive designed to provide long-term stewardship and use of data from observational, experimental, and modeling activities in the earth sciences. The ESS-DIVE infrastructure is constructed with the long-term vision of enabling broad access to and usage of the data stored in the archive. It is designed as a repeatable and scalable framework that incentivizes data providers to contribute well-structured, high-quality data to the archive and that enables the user community to easily build data processing, synthesis, and analysis capabilities using those data. The ESS-DIVE archive's mission has been to provide a new, modern archive for DOE Environmental Systems Science projects and to preserve and make accessible the data in the previous archive. The ESS-DIVE project was funded in July 2017, began serving the data from the previous archive September 2017, and went live accepting new data April 2018. This rapid implementation and deployment were possible through extensive collaboration and leveraging. This talk will describe our experiences of implementing the archive, transferring the data collected over 30 years, engaging users, and joining DataONE.