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The Wikicaves association is in charge of the maintenance and development of the website http://www.grottocenter.org. Its objective is to promote caving data-sharing.




The website http://www.grottocenter.org allows you to make public on the web in an easy way the documents of which you are the author.


Perhaps, you find it too complicated? You would still like to share data, but you want it be quick and easy. We are aware of that and this  is the  reason why you may enter your data on a page giving you the possibility to share under the CC-BY-SA licence (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence or web encyclopedia Wikipedia licence) in a few clicks only.


The web page is available either in English or in French.

We thank you and are looking forward to your contribution.

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