ESA Data Registry

Welcome to the ESA Data Registry. This is a publically accessible registry describing scientific data sets on ecology and the environment.

This project is a cooperative effort of the Ecological Society of America, the Long-Term Studies Section (LTSS) of the ESA, and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). The Data Registry is based on software developed by the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB), and houses metadata that are compliant with Ecological Metadata Language (EML).

Credit for the datasets in this registry goes to the investigators who collected the data -- see each individual registry entry for citation and attribution information as well as usage rights.

Registry Tools

Browse data sets
The registry search system is used to locate data sets of interest by searching through existing registered data sets. Presently the search covers all fields, including author, title, abstract, keywords, and other documentation for each dataset. (More sophisticated search capabilities, including boolean field searches, will be available in future.)

Register a new data set
The registration page is used to submit information about a new data set associated with ESA research. The documentation about the data set will be submitted to the Registry. You can return to the entry at a later point in time to add to or correct the description. You can also use other tools such as Morpho to further document the set of data and directly attach the data to the registry entry.

Create a new account

The account management tools are used to create and manage registry accounts. Accounts are free, and are used to identify contributors so that they can maintain their entries in the future.