# 🗄️ Mauritania Open Datasets Initiative
> Crowdsourcing and curating open datasets relevant to Mauritania — for researchers, students, and practitioners.
**Domains:** 🌧️ Climate · 🏥 Health · 🗣️ Linguistics
## 🎯 How it works
This repo **documents and links** datasets — it does not store raw data.
Each domain folder has a `datasets.md` file listing available resources with metadata.
## 📁 Structure
```
climate/ ← Rainfall, floods, temperature, remote sensing
health/ ← Epidemiology, health facilities, demographics
linguistics/ ← Hassaniya, Pulaar, Soninke, Wolof corpora
```
## 🤝 Submit a Dataset
Open an issue using the **Dataset Submission** template — takes 2 minutes!
## 📋 Entry Format
```markdown
### Dataset Name
- **Source:** Institution / Author
- **Format:** CSV / NetCDF / Audio / ...
- **Coverage:** Geographic and temporal scope
- **License:** CC-BY / Open / ...
- **Link:**
https://...
- **Description:** 2-3 sentences
```