Data Providers

As a verified data provider partner, you can share and monetize your datasets through the Earthmover Marketplace. List free datasets to make your data more accessible to the community, or offer paid subscriptions on your own terms.

Your data lives in Icechunk repositories within your Arraylake organization. When you create a listing, subscribers from other organizations can discover your dataset on the Marketplace and subscribe to access it, including any updates you publish.

Becoming a Data Provider

Only verified organizations can publish listings to the Marketplace. If you're interested in becoming a data provider, contact sales@earthmover.io to get started.

Managing Listings

Listings are how you expose your data to the Marketplace. You can create, edit, and publish listings from the Marketplace tab in your organization settings.

Creating a Listing

To create a new listing:

1. Navigate to the Marketplace tab in your organization settings
2. Click + Create Listing
3. Fill in the listing details:

Field	Description
Repository	Select the repo you want to list. You can leave this blank initially and add it later when you're ready to make the data available.
Listing Name	A clear, descriptive name for your dataset.
Description	A brief summary that appears in Marketplace search results.
Thumbnail URL	An image URL to visually represent your dataset. These thumbnails are prominently displayed in the Marketplace.
Status	Choose from Unpublished, Coming Soon, or Published. See Listing Status below for details.
Pricing Model	Choose Free or Paid. Free datasets can be subscribed to instantly by anyone with an Arraylake account. Paid datasets require you to finalize terms with each subscriber before they gain access. See Choosing What to Include below.
README Content	Detailed documentation for your dataset. Click "Use Template" for a starting point. Include variables, coordinates, update frequency, and anything that helps users work with the data.
License	Define what subscribers can do with your data. You can select a Creative Commons license, link out to an existing license, or add custom terms.

Choosing What to Include

The pricing model you choose determines how much control you have over what's included in the listing:

Free listings include all variables and groups from your repository. Subscribers get access to everything in the repo.

Paid listings let you select exactly which variables and groups are available to subscribers. This is useful when:

• You want to offer a subset of your data as a distinct product
• Your repo contains internal or experimental groups that shouldn't be exposed
• You want to create multiple listings from the same repo, each with different variables

When you select a paid pricing model, you'll be able to choose which groups and variables to include. Only the data you select will be visible to subscribers; everything else remains private to your organization.

Expanding a listing later

If you add new variables to your dataset after creating a listing, you can update the listing to include them. This makes the new data available to future subscribers. You cannot remove variables that are already part of active subscriptions.

Listing Status

Your listing can have one of three statuses:

Status	Visibility	Description
Unpublished	Only your organization	Use this while drafting. Your listing won't appear in the Marketplace, letting you preview and iterate before going public.
Coming Soon	Public	Use this to announce upcoming datasets before they're ready. The listing appears in the Marketplace with a "Coming Soon" badge, and potential users can register their interest to be notified when it becomes available.
Published	Public	Your listing is live and users can subscribe to access the data. Requires a repository to be attached.

Once you're happy with your listing, set the status to Published to make it live on the Marketplace!

How Subscriptions Work

When someone subscribes to your listing, a read-only repo appears in their organization that gives them access to your data. The Marketplace supports two types of subscriptions, each designed for different use cases.

Direct Subscriptions

Direct subscriptions are used for free listings. Subscribers access your repository directly and receive every update you publish. Their repo is a complete mirror of yours: when you commit new data, subscribers see it immediately.

With direct subscriptions:

• Subscribers read data directly from your object store
• Subscribers see your full commit history and can access any version
• No data is copied; the subscriber's repo points to your storage

Filtered Subscriptions

Filtered subscriptions are used for paid listings. Instead of mirroring your entire repo, subscribers receive a repo scoped to specific variables, time ranges, or spatial regions defined by your listing. This lets you offer tailored data products from a single source repository.

With filtered subscriptions:

• Subscribers have their own repo with metadata stored in their organization's bucket
• The actual chunk data is read from your object store (no data is copied)
• Subscribers only receive updates for the data within their subscription scope

Current Limitations

Filtered subscriptions do not yet support virtual chunks, Azure-hosted data, or buckets using HMAC credentials.

Coming Soon

Materialized subscriptions (coming soon) will automatically copy all the data (including chunks) to the subscriber's object store. This is useful for subscribers who want the data in a specific bucket for performance or compliance purposes.

Data Access Authorization

By attaching a repository to a marketplace listing, you authorize subscribers to read data from your object storage. In both subscription types, subscribers can only read data, never list, write, or delete. Access is limited to the paths defined by your listing. Due to Icechunk's cryptographically random keys, it is not possible for the subscriber to discover any data not explicitly included in their manifests.

Managing Subscriptions

How users subscribe to your listings depends on your pricing model:

Free listings — Anyone with an Arraylake account can subscribe instantly from the Marketplace. No action required on your part. These create direct subscriptions.

Paid listings — You control who can subscribe by creating subscriptions manually. This lets you finalize terms with each customer before granting access. These create filtered subscriptions.

To create a subscription for a paid listing:

1. Navigate to the Marketplace tab in your organization settings
2. Go to the Subscriptions tab and click + Create Subscription
3. Fill in the subscription details:

Field	Description
Listing	Select which listing to create a subscription for.
Variables	Choose which variables to include in this subscription. See Customizing subscriptions below.
Pricing	How the subscriber will be charged.
Claim Code Expiration	How long the subscriber has to claim this subscription.
Description	Add context to this claim, such as who it is for. This is for your internal tracking.

4. Click Create to generate a claim code

Once created, you'll receive a unique claim code and a unique link. Share this code or link with your intended subscriber so they can claim their subscription. When they claim the code, a read-only repo will be created in their organization with access to their subscription's data.

Customizing subscriptions

When creating a subscription, you can choose exactly which variables the subscriber receives. The available options are limited to what you've already included in the listing. You can offer a subset of the listing, but you can't add variables that aren't part of the listing.

This lets you create different subscription tiers from a single listing. For example, you might offer:

• A basic subscription with core forecast variables for one subscriber
• A premium subscription with additional derived products or higher-resolution data for a different subscriber

Different subscriptions from the same listing can include different subsets of variables.

Each subscriber only sees and pays for the data they are subscribed to.

Egress Considerations

Since subscribers read subscribed data directly from your object store bucket, you may incur egress costs when they access your data. To minimize these costs, we recommend hosting your data on storage with free or reduced egress pricing:

• Cloudflare R2 — No egress fees
• AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program — AWS covers storage and egress costs for qualifying public datasets

Keep this in mind for free, public datasets as read access is unbounded.

Listing Metrics

Each listing includes metrics so you can understand how your data is being used. From the listing details page, you can view:

• Total subscriptions — How many organizations have subscribed
• Total access — Aggregate read activity across all subscribers
• Unique viewers — Number of distinct users accessing your data
• Subscribed organizations — A list of organizations currently subscribed to your dataset

You can also view aggregated metrics across all your listings on your organization dashboard. These metrics help you understand the reach and impact of your data.