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Data governance

It defines the legal accessibility and use of the data. All data must be marked with a complex Data Governance object which defines different properties. such as, where the data is coming from, who is using it, and who should keep it.

  • Source system
  • Author
  • Data classification
  • sharing bucket (sharing can be controlled on bucket level)
  • license and copyrights
  • terms of use

For the actual definition which is used in Infocenter see the DataGovernance object: DataGovernance

License in Infocenter

The objects in the Infocenter have a license related to schema.org/license assigned. We recommend using the Creative Commons (CC) licenses. In this case, the license property contains the abbreviations of the used Creative Commons (CC) license.

The main license is available on the root of the object in the license property.

Stripped Example 
{
    "license": "CC BY-SA",
    "copyrightNotice": "Zürich Tourismus www.zuerich.com",
    "@id": "https://api.discover.swiss/info/v2/civicStructures/civ_px9-s28_bggg",
    "identifier": "civ_px9-s28_bggg",
    "dataGovernance": {
        "origin": [
            {
                "datasource": "zht-cms",
                "sourceId": "1666",
                "license": "CC BY-SA",
                "provider": {
                    "acronym": "zht",
                    "name": "Zürich Tourismus",
                    "logo": {
                        "contentUrl": "https://cdn.discover.swiss/logos/zht.jpg",
                        "@id": "https://api.discover.swiss/info/v2/imageObjects/img_px9_14w4",
                        "identifier": "img_px9_14w4"
                    },
                    "link": [
                        {
                            "url": "https://www.zuerich.com",
                            "type": "WebHomepage"
                        }
                    ],
                    "identifier": "zht"
                },
                "source": {
                    "acronym": "zht",
                    "name": "Zürich Tourismus",
                    "logo": {
                        "contentUrl": "https://cdn.discover.swiss/logos/zht.jpg",
                        "@id": "https://api.discover.swiss/info/v2/imageObjects/img_px9_14w4",
                        "identifier": "img_px9_14w4"
                    },
                    "link": [
                        {
                            "url": "https://www.zuerich.com",
                            "type": "WebHomepage"
                        }
                    ],
                    "identifier": "zht"
                }
            },
            {
                "datasource": "gdl",
                "sourceId": "976099334",
                "license": "C-All-Rights-Reserved",
                "provider": {
                    "acronym": "gdl",
                    "name": "Guidle",
                    "logo": {
                        "contentUrl": "https://img1.oastatic.com/img2/54940951/max/guidle.png",
                        "@id": "https://api.discover.swiss/info/v2/imageObjects/img_wt1_14w4",
                        "identifier": "img_wt1_14w4"
                    },
                    "link": [
                        {
                            "url": "https://www.guidle.com/",
                            "type": "WebHomepage"
                        }
                    ],
                    "identifier": "gdl"
                },
                "source": {
                    "name": "gdl"
                }
            }
        ],
        "provider": {
            "acronym": "zht",
            "name": "Zürich Tourismus",
            "logo": {
                "contentUrl": "https://cdn.discover.swiss/logos/zht.jpg",
                "@id": "https://api.discover.swiss/info/v2/imageObjects/img_px9_14w4",
                "identifier": "img_px9_14w4"
            },
            "link": [
                {
                    "url": "https://www.zuerich.com",
                    "type": "WebHomepage"
                }
            ],
            "identifier": "zht"
        },
        "source": {
            "acronym": "zht",
            "name": "Zürich Tourismus",
            "logo": {
                "contentUrl": "https://cdn.discover.swiss/logos/zht.jpg",
                "@id": "https://api.discover.swiss/info/v2/imageObjects/img_px9_14w4",
                "identifier": "img_px9_14w4"
            },
            "link": [
                {
                    "url": "https://www.zuerich.com",
                    "type": "WebHomepage"
                }
            ],
            "identifier": "zht"
        }
    },
    "additionalType": "Museum",
    "name": "Landesmuseum Zürich",
    "type": "schema.org/CivicStructure"
}

The CC License options

Links

Website Creative Commons
Team Switzerland Creative Commons

The value results from the permissible values of the various sources.

Open Data Commons License options

Links

Website Open Data Commons

Open Data Commons licenses are designed specifically for databases and data. They address both copyright and database-specific rights (such as those recognized under the EU Database Directive).