Welcome to the DCO for Ocean Data Sharing Community of Practice! We want this to be a strong global community that promotes open, interoperable, and impactful ocean data sharing across UN Ocean Decade-endorsed projects.

Interested in joining? Fill out the form below to access the community, post your questions and resources, and connect with other members.

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You can use this space to openly exchange tools, ideas, lessons learned, and practical experiences, helping the community benefit from existing knowledge rather than repeatedly solving the same problems individually.

A short guide on how to use this platform:

How to get around

Everything lives under a few main sections, linked from this homepage:

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CoP Groups

Join the focused groups we have on different topics

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Resources

Share any interesting papers, articles, videos or resources

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Let’s collaborate!

Share any opportunities to collaborate with other members (writing papers, planning joint events, project proposals)

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Showcase your work

Share your project or the tools you are working on with the rest of the members

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Forum

Ask your questions or interact with other members!

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Housekeeping

A few simple guidelines to keep this a useful, welcoming space for everyone:

1. Be respectful of other members
2. Share: If something helped you, it'll probably help someone else too. Don't be shy about adding it.
3. Give credit: When sharing someone else's tool, dataset, or work, link back to the original source.
4. This space is for ocean data sharing, AI use, and related tools/practices. Please keep posts on-topic.
5. New content gets a quick check. Resources and showcased projects go through a light review before appearing publicly, just to keep the library useful and on-topic.
6. No spam or self-promotion unrelated to ocean data work. You’re welcome to share your own tool or project, but please, don’t advertise unrelated topics.
7. When in doubt, ask. If you're not sure whether something fits, post it in the Forum and ask.

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