The Cooperative Data Publishing Utility

Data publishing at any scale for everyone.Upload, share, and access data without needing to build or maintain your own infrastructure.

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What is Source Cooperative?

The Challenge

Scientific data infrastructure wasn't built for cross-border, cross-sector cooperation.

Addressing global challenges means combining data from governments, research institutions, commercial providers, and civil society—each with its own formats, access patterns, and APIs.

Data engineers, scientists, and researchers spend more time wrangling infrastructure than doing their actual work, hampering collaboration and limiting informed decision making.

Our Solution

Source is a nonprofit data publishing utility built on commodity cloud object storage. Researchers publish data at any scale without running servers, building portals, or writing APIs.

Source handles cloud infrastructure so researchers can focus on their data, not their hosting. Users access everything through standard URLs that work with existing tools—no custom portals, no proprietary APIs.

The service is intentionally commoditized: built to resist lock-in and designed so that no single provider, funder, or political decision can make research data disappear.

Why Source is different

Data publishing for everyone

Integrate into any workflow

Source is a vendor-neutral data publishing utility that works with any S3-compatible cloud provider.

Neutral hosting, mission backed

Retain full ownership and control of your data. Source supports open formats and is a non-commercial repository, so you're never trapped by proprietary APIs or workflows.

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Flat pricing

Instead of building and maintaining data portals or trying to wrangle variable cloud costs, Source lets you focus on the fundamentals that make data easy to publish and easy to use.

Pricing plans based on data volume and usage will be announced soon.

Case Studies

Open Source, Governed, and Trusted By These Teams

"We can solve this question for ourselves, but the point of our work is to bring the world's attention to these rural communities and their needs. We want to make sure the data we develop and the insights we generate are accessible to other organizations and people. That's what brought us to Source."

— Cameron Kruse, Bridges to Prosperity Director of Digital Technology

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"I value Source Cooperative as a scalable, practically unlimited in size, data store for open data. I could store the data in a commercial account that I manage, but I prefer using a well-known, discoverable space for storage. I like using Source when it's for a broader public good, one which provides public usefulness."

— Alex Leith, Auspatious Founder

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"Source has allowed us to open up all of this data to really anybody in the world… we would have been hesitant to do this without Source. We get people from local communities, indigenous groups, and others from almost every continent, who have reached out to us about this data."

— Tom "Hutch" Ingold, Earth Genome, CTO

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Built for Data Engineers, Scientists, and Developers

Source Cooperative supports your data lifecycle, from prototyping to public release, without navigating corporate cloud policies.

ABOUT US

Source Cooperative is a Radiant Earth project