Three layers, one loop
The commons is not a website with a repo behind it. It is a repo with a website in front of it — and an intelligence system feeding it.
Blue Life Commons
Trust layer — this site
Human-reviewed, cited, CC-BY intelligence artifacts: species pages, region briefings, missions, dataset cards and welfare assessments. Slow, careful, permanent.
blue-life-commonsOcean Intelligence System
Sensing layer
Open connectors and agents that watch OBIS, GBIF, NOAA and other live sources — detecting signals, drafting updates, and proposing changes to the commons as pull requests.
ocean-intelligence-systemGitHub
Ledger & governance
The single source of truth. Contributions arrive as PRs, review happens in the open, CI validates every artifact against the schema, and merged changes publish here automatically.
The repositoryFrom signal to sustained impact
- 1A sensor, researcher or citizen produces a signal
- 2The intelligence system (or a human) drafts an artifact
- 3Experts review the PR — sources, welfare, schema
- 4CI validates; the merge is the publication
- 5This site renders it; Guardian keeps it living
- 6Evidenced work becomes a fundable impact record
Build on it
Both layers are open source. Fork the commons, run the intelligence system against your own waters, or contribute connectors back upstream.