Skip to main content
Dataerai can pull public records from DataONE into one of your projects as metadata-first assets. DataONE is the Data Observation Network for Earth — a federation of around 60 environmental- and earth-science repositories (KNB, PANGAEA, the LTER network, and more) searchable through a single index. The record’s metadata — title, type, authors, abstract, publication date, and DOI where present — is copied into Dataerai so it’s searchable and shareable alongside your own data. The file is not copied: clicking Download on an imported asset streams directly from DataONE.
Imported assets are metadata-first: they describe and link to data that lives on DataONE. Nothing is stored in your Dataerai allocation, so importing doesn’t consume your quota.

​
Search DataONE

Open the Import from DataONE page and enter a query, then Search.
  • The query uses DataONE’s own search syntax. Enter a plain keyword (water quality, salmon) or a fielded clause (title:soil, abstract:salmon).
  • Results are biased toward science-metadata records — the datasets that carry a title, author, and abstract — so you see describable datasets rather than raw data files.
  • Results show Title, Type, and Files, with the record identifier and publication date under each title.
  • Use Per page (25, 100, 500, or 1000) to trade clicks for latency. Result counts and page totals come straight from DataONE’s index, so paging is exact.
Each DataONE record imports as a single asset with one linked file. DataONE’s unit of identity is a persistent identifier (PID) — which may be a DOI (doi:10.6073/pasta/…), a URN, a UUID, or a repository-specific id like knb.11.1 — and each PID names exactly one object.

​
Select and import

1

Select records

Tick the records you want — click a row, or press Space or Enter on it, to toggle its checkbox. The header checkbox selects or clears everything on the current page; your selection is kept as you page through results.
2

Choose the destination project

Paste the UUID of the project that should own the new assets into the Import into project field.
3

Import

Click Import. Large selections are sent in batches automatically, and a single Import result panel summarizes how many records were imported (and how many new assets were created), plus any that failed and why.
Because imported assets point at DataONE rather than your own storage, their files are only available while the DataONE record is. If you need a durable copy under your control, download the file and upload it as a regular asset instead.

​
Next steps

Metadata-first assets

How records that describe data elsewhere work in Dataerai.

Organize into collections

Group imported records alongside your own data.

Search & discover

Find imported records by title, type, creator, and metadata.

Sharing & permissions

Decide who can see the records you import.