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 # OSAI: Open and Sustainable AI Ecosystem Components
 
+# OSAI: Open and Sustainable AI Ecosystem Catalog
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 Welcome to the Open and Sustainable AI (OSAI) Ecosystem Catalog! This repository hosts a community-curated list of components relevant to building and utilizing AI in ways that are transparent, fair, accessible, and environmentally conscious.
 
 Our goal is to provide a central resource for discovering tools, datasets, models, frameworks, research, best practices, organizations, and educational materials aligned with OSAI principles. This catalog is intended for researchers, developers, policymakers, educators, students, and anyone interested in the field of open and sustainable AI.
 
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+## Project Background and Purpose
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+This catalog originates as a publication and curated resource from the **ELIXIR Machine Learning Focus Group**. It represents a collective effort to identify and organize key components supporting Open and Sustainable AI (OSAI) practices within the life sciences and beyond.
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+**Digital Object Identifier (DOI):** *[Space reserved for DOI - e.g., https://doi.org/...]*
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+The primary goal of this catalog is to serve as a dynamic, community-maintained inventory. It is explicitly **designed for reuse and adaptation**. We envision this list feeding into various resources, frameworks, and platforms, providing a long-term, accessible collection of OSAI ecosystem components.
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+While the initial curation may align with specific OSAI principles or recommendations, the structure allows for the components listed here to be mapped or re-purposed according to different sets of guidelines or perspectives. We acknowledge that there is no single, perfect set of recommendations for OSAI, and diverse global viewpoints exist. This catalog aims to support these varied efforts by providing a central, collaboratively curated foundation of relevant tools, data, models, and practices.
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 The catalog data is maintained in human-readable Tab-Separated Values (`.tsv`) files within the `/data` directory. These files are automatically converted to JSON format for easy consumption by websites and applications.
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> This catalog is under active development and curation. Community curation contributions and suggestions are very welcome to create an open and living components lsit to facilitate, Open and Sustainable AI.
+> This catalog is under active development and curation. Contributions and suggestions are highly encouraged!
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+## Contributing
+... (rest of the README follows) ...
 
 ## Contributing