Overview
July 28, 2026 · View on GitHub
Overview
Welcome to the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) Government Data Archiving team.
We are:
- Building online tools, helping events, and creating research networks to proactively preserve, archive and track public environmental data and ensure its continued availability
- Indexing millions of government web pages on a weekly basis, tracking changes to them, and producing regular reports
- Working with protocols for resilient, sustainable, distributed data storage networks
This repository is an overview for people who are getting involved in the project.
Our GitHub organization, chat, and in-person events have a Code of Conduct and Contributor Guidelines.
Get Involved
Welcome to our community! We welcome contributors from many skillsets. Here's how to get started:
- Review our Contributor Guidelines and Code of Conduct
- If You are just interested in contributing to code on GitHub, take a look at our Current Projects or jump straight into one of our issues labeled “good first issue” or “help wanted”!
- Otherwise, fill out our volunteer interest form if you’d like to help with non-programming work or get more involved in the organization.
Projects
Here are some projects we're building and maintaining right now.
Want to get involved? Check out the emoji column to see all the different types of contribution we need for these projects!
| Project (Click through to repo) | Description | Contribution type most needed (emoji key from All Contributors) |
|---|---|---|
| Web Monitoring | Tools around monitoring changes to government websites | 📖 🐛 💻 |
| 100 Days | Website for EDGI 100 Days Report at 100days. envirodatagov.org (in maintenance) | 🐛 |
| EDGI Website | Project management and design support for EDGI's website at envirodatagov.org | 🐛 💻 🎨 🤔 🖋 |
| EDGI Scripts | Code scripts for running and maintaining our digital infrastructure | 📖 💻 ✅ |
| Environmental Enforcement Watch | Tools for open Environmental Data Justice analysis | 📖 🐛 💻 🎨 🤔 |
Working Openly
EDGI operates under horizontal-organizing principles. We have developed guidelines for open project development in line with these principles, which you can find in this repo:
Funding
Our work is made possible through volunteer labor, grants, and direct tax-deductible donations from the public.