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+# Data Standards for Environmental Surveillance (dses)
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+> [!WARNING]
+> This documentation is under active development and might be changing. Check out our Github to see the latest changes.
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+This is the documentation for the data standards for environmental surveillance, developed by the Data Science Innovation Hub at [ARTPARK](https://www.artpark.in/) at the [Indian Institute of Science](https://iisc.ac.in).
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+The aim is to create a set of data standards, along the lines of [`FHIR HL7`](https://hl7.org/fhir/) that are fast to adopt, interoperable, and can be scaled to any kind of disease while allowing extensibility for any user's specific use-case.
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+Contributing
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+Interested in contributing? Check out the contributing guidelines. Please note that this project is released with a Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
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+Credits
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+Data Standards for Environmental Surveillance [`dses`](https://github.com/dsih-artpark/dses) was created with [`cookiecutter`](https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and the [`py-pkgs-cookiecutter template`](https://github.com/py-pkgs/py-pkgs-cookiecutter). The documentation is rendered using [`sphinx`](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/) and hosted on [`readthedocs.io`](https://readthedocs.io), and uses [`poetry`](https://python-poetry.org/) to manage dependencies in the rendering scripts.