The intended use of this archive is to facilitate meta-analysis of the Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE, [1]). DataONE is a distributed infrastructure that provides information about earth observation data. This dataset was derived from the DataONE network using Preston [2] between 17 October 2018 and 6 November 2018, resolving 335,213 urls at an average retrieval rate of about 5 seconds per url, or 720 files per hour, resulting in a data gzip compressed tar archive of 837.3 MB . The archive associates 325,757 unique metadata urls [3] to 202,063 unique ecological metadata files [4]. Also, the DataONE search index was captured to establish provenance of how the dataset descriptors were found and acquired. During the creation of the snapshot (or crawl), 15,389 urls [5], or 4.7% of urls, did not successfully resolve. To facilitate discovery, the record of the Preston snapshot crawl is included in the preston-ls-* files . There files are derived from the rdf/nquad file with hash://sha256/8c67e0741d1c90db54740e08d2e39d91dfd73566ea69c1f2da0d9ab9780a9a9f . This file can also be found in the data.tar.gz at data/8c/67/e0/8c67e0741d1c90db54740e08d2e39d91dfd73566ea69c1f2da0d9ab9780a9a9f/data . For more information about concepts and format, please see [2]. To extract all EML files from the included Preston archive, first extract the hashes assocated with EML files using: cat preston-ls.tsv.gz | gunzip | grep "Version" | grep -v "deeplinker" | grep -v "query/solr" | cut -f1,3 | tr '\t' '\n' | grep "hash://" | sort | uniq > eml-hashes.txt extract data.tar.gz using: ~/preston-archive$ tar xzf data.tar.gz then use Preston to extract each hash using something like: ~/preston-archive$ preston get hash://sha256/00002d0fc9e35a9194da7dd3d8ce25eddee40740533f5af2397d6708542b9baa <eml:eml xmlns:eml="eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.1" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:stmml="http://www.xml-cml.org/schema/stmml_1.1" packageId="doi:10.18739/A24P9Q" system="https://arcticdata.io" scope="system" xsi:schemaLocation="eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.1 ~/development/eml/eml.xsd"> <dataset> <alternateIdentifier>urn:x-wmo:md:org.aoncadis.www::d76bc3b5-7b19-11e4-8526-00c0f03d5b7c</alternateIdentifier> <alternateIdentifier>d76bc3b5-7b19-11e4-8526-00c0f03d5b7c</alternateIdentifier> <title>Airglow Image Data 2011 4 of 5</title> ... Alternatively, without using Preston, you can extract the data using the naming convention: data/[x]/[y]/[z]/[hash]/data where x is the first 2 characters of the hash, y the second 2 characters, z the third 2 characters, and hash the full sha256 content hash of the EML file. For example, the hash hash://sha256/00002d0fc9e35a9194da7dd3d8ce25eddee40740533f5af2397d6708542b9baa can be found in the file: data/00/00/2d/00002d0fc9e35a9194da7dd3d8ce25eddee40740533f5af2397d6708542b9baa/data . For more information, see [2]. The intended use of this archive is to facilitate meta-analysis of the DataONE dataset network. [1] DataONE, https://www.dataone.org [2] https://preston.guoda.bio, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410543 . DataONE was crawled via Preston with "preston update -u https://dataone.org". [3] cat preston-ls.tsv.gz | gunzip | grep "Version" | grep -v "deeplinker" | grep -v "query/solr" | cut -f1,3 | tr '\t' '\n' | grep -v "hash://" | sort | uniq | wc -l [4] cat preston-ls.tsv.gz | gunzip | grep "Version" | grep -v "deeplinker" | grep -v "query/solr" | cut -f1,3 | tr '\t' '\n' | grep "hash://" | sort | uniq | wc -l [5] cat preston-ls.tsv.gz | gunzip | grep "Version" | grep "deeplinker" | grep -v "query/solr" | cut -f1,3 | tr '\t' '\n' | grep -v "hash://" | sort | uniq | wc -l This work is funded in part by grant NSF OAC 1839201 from the National Science Foundation.