The Agricultural and Environmental Data Archive (AEDA) is the direct result of a project managed by the Freshwater Biological Association in partnership with the Centre for e-Research at King's College London , and funded by the Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) . This project ran from January 2011 until December 2014 and was called the DTC Archive Project , because it was initially related to the Demonstration Test Catchments Platform developed by Defra. The archive was also desi
The Archive contains many different types of information ranging from, scientific datasets, grey literature, images, video, library catalogue records and a variety of other information. All of this information is stored in an appropriate format for long-term digital curation purposes and adheres to various data standards such as those of the ISO 19100 series and EU Inspire Directive. The archive is also designed to work with the latest Open Linked Data tools and technologies, so that it can take advantage o
AEDA is housed by the Freshwater Biological Association who manage and develop the archive system and curate it's content. The FBA's expertise in data management and data science has a long history which begins with the creation of the FBA's library in the 1930s. Home to some extremely rare and difficult to find material the FBA houses probably the finest collection of freshwater related literature in the world.