About AEDIN

AEDIN (AgroEcological Database of Interactions) is an agroecological knowledge base built for academic researchers and AI / bot consumers. It curates atomic claims (pest, pathogen, beneficial, pollinator, mycorrhizal, soil, and crop-trait relationships) from open-access scientific literature, exposing each verified claim with full source provenance.

What you should know before citing

AEDIN claims have been AI-extracted from open-access scientific literature and verified by an automated multi-critic consensus process. They have not been human-reviewed. Before citing in your own work, read the verbatim quote and original source alongside the claim to confirm it is correctly contextualized for your use.

License & reuse

AEDIN distinguishes between three layers of content with different reuse rules:

• Claim metadata, entity records, and aggregate statistics produced by this project (the structure linking claims to entities, sources, regions, and GloBI terms) are released under CC BY 4.0. Cite AEDIN when reusing.
• Verbatim source quotes shown on each claim page are reproduced under fair-use / academic-quotation principles. They retain the license of the original source, which is displayed next to the quote (CC-BY, CC0, public-domain, USDA-PD, etc.). Redistribution of a quote beyond what the source license permits is your responsibility, not AEDIN's.
• Programmatic upstream data (GloBI, GBIF, Wikidata, Trefle, USDA GRIN, Open-Meteo, SoilGrids) is federated into AEDIN under each source's license — see /data-sources for the full catalogue and recommended citations.

How to cite AEDIN

When reusing data from AEDIN, please cite both AEDIN and the relevant upstream source(s). The AEDIN knowledge base's canonical citation is:

LeBouef V. 2026. AEDIN: AgroEcological Database of Interactions. https://aedin.io

For data originating from a specific upstream source — GloBI, GBIF, Wikidata, Trefle, USDA GRIN, Open-Meteo, or SoilGrids — please also include the upstream's recommended citation. The full catalogue of upstream sources, licenses, and recommended citations lives at /data-sources.

For data originating from a specific scientific paper or extension publication, the individual claim page (e.g. /claim/[id]) carries the verbatim source quote, page number, and full citation needed for academic reuse.

Who runs this

AEDIN is developed by Vivek LeBouef, a graduate student in the Sustainable Agriculture program at the University of Guam (UOG).

ORCID: 0009-0003-9406-950X

Contact: contact@aedin.io

Funding & sustainability

Development to date has been unfunded. A funding application is in progress to support the next development phases — corpus expansion beyond open-access sources, and academic and extension partnerships. Inquiries from funders, research collaborators, and academic partners are welcome at the contact address above.

AEDIN is free to use and openly licensed. If it helps your work and you'd like to support its upkeep and continued corpus expansion, a small donation goes directly toward that — thank you.