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title: 🌐 Data Dissemination Strategy
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Our dissemination strategy prioritizes interoperability, long-term preservation, and decentralized resilience.
Once data products reach a production-ready state, the workflow is as follows:
* **Cloud-Native First:** Priority is given to highly performant, system-to-system file formats (e.g., Parquet) to enable highly performant applications.
* **Persistent Identification & Cataloging:** Every dataset version will be assigned a DOI for citation and immutability.
* The endpoint `https://data-01.dataforcanada.org/processed/` will strictly serve the **latest** version of a dataset.
* Global metadata will be aggregated into a single, queryable [STAC GeoParquet](https://stac-utils.github.io/stac-geoparquet/latest/spec/stac-geoparquet-spec/) file. This catalog will track all versions and DOIs, providing direct download links to [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/communities/dataforcanada/) which serves as the long-term data repository.
* **Decentralized Distribution:** We will pilot BitTorrent to maximize infrastructure resilience. By leveraging [HTTP Web Seeding (BEP 19)](https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html), torrents will be seeded simultaneously by Zenodo, the Data for Canada infrastructure, and community peers, ensuring high availability without a single point of failure.
## High-Level Overview
```mermaid
flowchart TD
Sources[Open Data Sources]
Processes[Transformation Processes]
Artifacts[Systems-Ready Data]
Portal[Object Storage]
Metadata[Metadata]
Distribution[Decentralized Distribution]
Zenodo[Zenodo]
Torrent[BitTorrent]
Users[Researchers & Developers]
Systems[Systems]
Sources a1@--> Processes
a1@{animate: true, animation: slow}
Processes a2@--> Artifacts
a2@{animate: true, animation: slow}
Artifacts a3@--> Portal
a3@{animate: true, animation: slow}
Portal a4@--> Metadata
a4@{animate: true, animation: fast}
Metadata a5@--> Distribution
a5@{animate: true, animation: fast}
Distribution a6@--> Zenodo
a6@{animate: true, animation: slow}
Distribution a7@--> Torrent
a7@{animate: true, animation: slow}
Zenodo a9@--> Users
a9@{animate: true, animation: slow}
Torrent a10@--> Users
a10@{animate: true, animation: fast}
Torrent a11@--> Systems
a11@{animate: true, animation: fast}
Zenodo a12@--> Systems
a12@{animate: true, animation: slow}
Zenodo a13@--> Torrent
a13@{animate: true, animation: slow}
click Portal "https://data-01.dataforcanada.org/processed/" _blank
click Metadata "https://stac-utils.github.io/stac-geoparquet/latest/spec/stac-geoparquet-spec/" _blank
click Zenodo "https://zenodo.org/communities/dataforcanada/" _blank
```