Ocean Science Content
DigitalOcean will be a new focal point for ocean science results, news, and information. The ECOS Network will aggregate ocean science feeds from all of the major science journals and open access publishers and allow members to customize these feeds for their daily use. The ECOS Network will also enable members to locate and store a variety of research and career-related information, from citation libraries, to CVs, to research results not suitable for publication (e.g., those experiments where the results did not yield statistically significant findings) but of real interest to others who might waste their time attempting a similar experiment. Comments and critiques of published works, quality reviews of media content, and forums where scientists explore relevant issues will also be aggregated.

Instant publication: community peer review
The ECOS Network will build a preprint service similar to the Nature Precedings service. That service describes itself in the following way: “Nature Precedings is a free online service from NPG that enables researchers in the life sciences to openly share preliminary findings, solicit community feedback, and claim priority over discoveries by posting preprint manuscripts, white papers, technical reports, posters, and presentations.” Note: The Allen Brain Atlas Reports are a highlighted collection in Precedings. ECOS Network service will extend this type of service to the many disciplines of ocean science. Because the ECOS Network is also a strong community, it will be tasked to openly review science findings contributed as preprints. The goal here is to test if open community review might offer advantages to the current system of closed peer review.

Ocean Video and Photography
The DO Flickr™ Group and Video Service will enable ECOS Network and current Flickr™ users to contribute their underwater assets into this value-added system for reuse by scientists, educators, resource managers, and the public. Already, Flickr™ contains hundreds of thousands of underwater photographs. In addition, scientists who have never posted their photographs and/or videos to any shared network will have new reasons to contribute these to DigitalOcean. The Project expects that its aggregated collection of freely reusable ocean media will become one of the largests, and certainly the most useful collection on the planet over time.

Attention and reputation
One of the hallmarks of a Web 2.0 service and community is how it can nurture reputations and capture the attention of its users. DigitalOcean will build reputation through a variety of feedbacks for user contributions, and it will build user attention to acquire value-added quality measures, tags, and comments. This attention/reputation practices promote sustainability and help grow the content.

This vital combination of content and community is DigitalOcean.