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  "version": 1,
  "lede": "Cite them, and only use what the license allows.",
  "integrity": "",
  "archives": [
    {
      "id": "watkins-whoi",
      "name": "Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database",
      "org": "Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution",
      "openness": "high",
      "access": "Free download for personal and academic use · not commercial. Credit WHOI Watkins database.",
      "best_for": "Broad species coverage · historical depth · open comparative baseline",
      "url": "https://cis.whoi.edu/science/B/whalesounds/index.cfm",
      "cite": "Sayigh et al. 2016 · Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database",
      "cite_url": "https://pubs.aip.org/asa/poma/article/27/1/040013/836962/The-Watkins-Marine-Mammal-Sound-Database-An-online",
      "priority": 1,
      "tags": ["open", "multi-species", "historical", "baseline"]
    },
    {
      "id": "dominica-ceti-coda",
      "name": "Dominica sperm whale coda collections · CETI-related",
      "org": "Project CETI and collaborating field programs",
      "openness": "medium-high",
      "access": "Public subsets, code, and detectors via papers and GitHub · full collaborative corpora more restricted.",
      "best_for": "Sperm-whale coda structure · combinatorial claims · identity cues · sequence methods",
      "url": "https://www.projectceti.org/",
      "cite": "Sharma et al. 2024 and Gero et al. 2016 · primary papers on the instrument",
      "cite_url": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47221-8",
      "priority": 2,
      "tags": ["sperm-whale", "coda", "structure", "CETI"]
    },
    {
      "id": "dclde",
      "name": "DCLDE challenge datasets",
      "org": "DCLDE workshop · NCEI and challenge organisers",
      "openness": "high",
      "access": "Annotated corpora for detection, classification, density estimation, and localisation · via NCEI and dclde.org.",
      "best_for": "Method testing · ground truth for segmenters and classifiers",
      "url": "https://dclde.org/",
      "cite": "DCLDE workshop datasets · NCEI passive acoustic holdings",
      "cite_url": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/passive-acoustic-data",
      "priority": 3,
      "tags": ["methods", "benchmark", "detection", "open"]
    },
    {
      "id": "sarasota-whistle",
      "name": "Sarasota Dolphin Whistle Database",
      "org": "Sarasota Dolphin Research Program (research access)",
      "openness": "research",
      "access": "Not a simple public dump · contact and collaboration typical for research use.",
      "best_for": "Signature-whistle identity · long-term stability · known individuals",
      "url": "https://sarasotadolphin.org/",
      "cite": "Janik & Sayigh 2013 and Sarasota long-term program literature",
      "cite_url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-013-0817-7",
      "priority": 4,
      "tags": ["dolphin", "identity", "signature-whistle", "research-access"]
    },
    {
      "id": "orca-beaked-open",
      "name": "Recent orca and beaked-whale open sets",
      "org": "NCEI · Dryad · Orcasound and related releases",
      "openness": "high",
      "access": "Scientific Data / NCEI / Dryad deposits · check each release license.",
      "best_for": "Detection benchmarks · ecotype classification · click detectors",
      "url": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/passive-acoustic-data",
      "cite": "Per-dataset DOI · prefer NCEI and Dryad landing pages",
      "cite_url": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/passive-acoustic-data",
      "priority": 5,
      "tags": ["orca", "beaked-whale", "detection", "open"]
    }
  ]
}