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🪩 Introducing matadisco.org! — a way to discover open datasets via #atproto that doesn't depend on any single institution staying online. 🕺🏼 We have more public data than ever (satellite imagery, climate models, genomic sequences), but finding it is still painfully hard.

matadisco.orgMatadisco — Decentralized Data DiscoveryAn open, decentralized network for data discovery built on ATProto. Publish metadata, build portals, find data.

24/3/26, 9:22 pm20 reposts71 likes

IPFS

@ipfs.tech

24 Mar

Matadisco uses ATProto to let anyone publish dataset records and build domain-specific discovery portals. Many research orgs already use IPFS to store and verify datasets reliably. Matadisco makes them findable and useful.

IPFS

@ipfs.tech

24 Mar

Want to help? We're collaborating with IIIF 3D and satellite imagery projects now, and want to chat with anyone working in open data (science or otherwise). This week @vmx.cx will be giving a talk at FOSSGIS Göttingen, and @robin.berjon.com at @atmosphereconf.org. Come find us or send a message!

IPFS

@ipfs.tech

24 Mar

Two blog posts, if you want to read more: Why we built this: ipfsfoundation.org/matadisco-ca... Technical explainer: vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog...

vmx.cxMatadisco | vmx - the blllog.

Bumblefudge

@bumblefudge.com

25 Mar

For people attending Atmosconf in-person OR remotely, the link for Robin's lightning talk on this is here: atmo.rsvp/p/atmosphere... (sidenote, this talk-picker/scheduling tool is ITSELF a neat example of open data displayable in different ways that you can query the ATP firehose for)

atmo.rsvpMatadata! Publishing scientific data straight to ATProject Matadata is a project to publish and read science metadata directly to AT. This makes scientific data accessible in verified ways and widely disseminated.