FOSFORE (Fédération de l'Observation Sismologique Francaise) is a collaborative interuniversity project aimed to distribute data of French permanent and temporary seismic networks and to make them freely available for the scientific community. FOSFORE is designed as a distributed data archive and is organized around four data centers located in universities at Grenoble, Nice, Paris, and Strasbourg. Currently available data include records of the GEOSCOPE global seismic network (Paris data center), of the French broadband seismic network (Nice and Strasbourg data centers), of the French accelerometric permanent network RAP (Grenoble data center), of numerous French temporary seismic deployments from different regions in the World (Grenoble data center), of the Corinth Rift Laboratory (Grenoble data center), and of regional monitoring networks in France. Waveform data are made freely available for download via NetDC or AutoDRM data request systems or Web interfaces. In the near future, we plan to incorporate more temporary deployments as well as data from volcano-monitoring networks in La Reunion Island and French Antilles and data from the North Chile seismic experiment.

We are developing a centralized Web portal to access French seismological data, by connecting the data centers via standard data request protocols such as NetDC. This facility is aimed to better integrate the French data into the international data exchange system.