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Add datasets, improve documentation, or help test our APIs to enable scientific and AI research.

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Ways to Contribute

Code Contributions

Help improve our backend services, APIs, or tools for managing datasets.

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Documentation

Improve documentation for datasets, APIs, and data exploration tools.

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Quality Assurance

Test dataset loading pipelines, verify metadata quality, and report issues.

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Contribute via API

API v1.0 · POST /contribute

curl -X POST https://api.datasets.example.com/v1/contribute \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
    "type": "dataset",
    "description": "New climate dataset",
    "format": "csv",
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0"
}'

Developers can build integrations using our REST API to contribute datasets or tools. Get your API key in your account settings.

Contribution Guidelines

1. License Compliance

All contributions must include their original license information and must not restrict redistribution.

2. Format Standards

Data contributed through the API must follow our standard format specifications and contain at least basic metadata.

3. Review Process

All contributions will be reviewed for quality before inclusion in the dataset repository.