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Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset
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Changes the license field to Always Required #477

Closed rebeccawilliams closed 9 years ago

rebeccawilliams commented 9 years ago

See the OMB IDC requirements for May 31st:

Each agency shall ensure their PDL contains license or non-license (i.e., Public Domain) information for every dataset. Guidance on how to include in the metadadata scheme is provided at https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/#license, and details on licenses are provided at https://project-open-data.cio.gov/open-licenses/. It’s as simple as adding a URL to your metadata. We highly recommend using the URL for the “Creative Commons 0” license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) to indicate that the data is available for unrestricted use in the U.S. and internationally. The White House is working on policy guidance to clarify that all open data in the public domain is by default included in the international public domain.

rebeccawilliams commented 9 years ago

cc-ing @philipashlock Let's update the validators in conjunction with this PR.

rebeccawilliams commented 9 years ago

The quarterly IDC requirements for August 31st have been refined to require the rights field if a Public Domain URL is not present in license:

To ensure the legal reuse of federal open data is conspicuous, agencies must include an explanation for all datasets that do not include a Public Domain URL in the license field by filling out the rights field. See license and non-license (i.e. Public Domain) URL examples and more details at: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/open-licenses/

Closing this.