EPA Science Inventory: Environmental Research Presentations and Reports

94,428 records from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Inventory, a database of research products. This subset contains files marked as presentations, scraped from the EPA website, and includes documents in formats like PDF, HTML, and MS Word. The archive was created by yoder, naomi and is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in EPA research topics based on presentation titles and metadata.
• Training document classification models to distinguish between reports and presentations.
• Extracting structured information from scientific presentations for knowledge graph construction.
• Studying the evolution of environmental science communication over time.

Strengths

• Contains 94,428 records from an authoritative government source (EPA).
• Includes multiple file formats (PDF, HTML, MS Word, etc.) providing raw document data.
• Data collection is documented with specific scripts and a 7.1 GB archive size indicates substantial content.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• The description notes files were not clearly categorized and some NEPIS files may not be fully captured.
• Last updated 2026-01-20 20:11:03; freshness should be verified against the source.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Inventory website.

Collection Method

Web scraping using custom Python scripts to download and catalog files.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-01-20 20:11:03