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AmazoniaDB: a field guide to Amazon data

amazoniadb.org ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 84.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A multilingual directory of socioenvironmental datasets about the Amazon, linking researchers, policymakers, and communities to sources in their original homes.

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AmazoniaDB gathers 51 selected sources across six areas of knowledge, with filters for geography, subject, purpose, access conditions, data type, and time period. Its entries preserve links to the original providers while recording descriptions and link-review dates—a small but serious piece of public-interest information infrastructure.

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