EPA Science Inventory Reports and Presentations Archive

Aggregating 94,428 records from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Inventory, specifically focusing on published reports and presentations. The data was scraped from the EPA website and includes metadata and download links for various document types.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of document types (e.g., reports, presentations, NEPIS files) within the 94,428 Science Inventory records.
• Extract and process metadata such as Title and Entry ID number to catalog research outputs from the EPA's Office of Research and Development.
• Identify and handle duplicate filenames across records using the title prefix logic described in the scraping scripts.

Strengths

• Contains 94,428 records from the EPA Science Inventory, a searchable database of EPA research products.
• Includes metadata extraction for multiple document types, including reports, books, and data/software.
• Scripts provide intelligent filename logic to handle duplicate filenames across records.

Limitations

• The dataset is a subset of the full Science Inventory archive, limited to files marked as 'Reports'.
• NEPIS (National Service Center for Environmental Publications) files may be incomplete due to download restrictions on the source website.
• Records were not clearly categorized by type (e.g., report vs. presentation) upon download, requiring post-processing.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Inventory website (https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/index.cfm).

Collection Method

Data was gathered using custom Python scripts (e.g., epa_SI_uncat_scraper1.py) that scraped the EPA website, downloaded files, and catalogued metadata.

Time Range

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Geography

Primarily United States, as the source is the U.S. EPA.