-# COVID-19_Digital_Observatory
-The COVID-19_Digital_Observatory collects, aggregates, and distributes data from social media, search engine results, and Wikipedia to support social and data science research related to the pandemic
+# COVID-19 Digital Observatory
+The COVID-19 Digital Observatory collects, aggregates, and distributes data from social media, search engine results, and Wikipedia to support social and data science research related to the pandemic.
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+[The community data science collective](https://wiki.communitydata.science/Main_Page "The community data science collectivewiki") is the early stages of building this project. We expect to make rapid progess and to begin releasing code and data soon.
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+We eagerly welcome contributors! Please get in touch.
+Contributors are held to the [code of conduct](code_of_conduct.md "link to code of conduct.md").
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