License Bath Water data - compatible with Wikidata?

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Status: Looks like we need to contact every country to get an understanding if the country data comply with Wikidata License policy so we can upload it to Wikidata

• Sweden: I contacted Sweden and got a yes email - water data in VISS is since earlier marked CC-0 - see also issue SB-55

  If we look at the report mentioned below the experience with data related to EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is

• the Netherland can be an candidate to have a CC0 license
• Finland and Poland is also candidates

• EEA recommend countries to use CC-0 license see "Free use of reported Water Framework Directive data"

  StateOfBathingWaters: see maps.eea.europa.eu StateOfBathingWaters and the Info box upper right --> CC-BY**

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Looks we have a license problem - reopen this issue

My understanding

• EEA license is CC-BY
• Wikidata needs CC-0 see Wikidata licensing

See also report WFD data for Wikidata and chapter Copyright, using CC0 for data

Email

• see whole email

  
  Dear Magnus Sälgö,

I will try to provide some answers, to the extent of my knowledge.

· With regard to the APIs.

o There’s a JSON API in https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/ (see the WISE_BWD database)

o And there are map services in https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/BathingWater

· With regard to the license.

o By default, all the information published by the EEA in under a CC-BY license. That is also the case for the Bathing Water data.

· The only exception that I’m aware of are the WISE vocabularies (registries of identifiers) which are under https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

o The bathing waters are protected areas under WFD, so the vocabulary is http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/wise/WFDProtectedArea

o This will provide you a stable URI (e.g. http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/wise/WFDProtectedArea/euProtectedAreaCode.SE0110114000001601 ) and some relevant attributes. (but not the location, since that is not the purpose of the registry).

The following document may be useful, as it synthesizes a project similar to yours: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/WFD_data_for_Wikidata_%E2%80%93_final_report.pdf

With regard to eventual issues in the data itself (e.g. positional errors), I would suggest a direct contact with the relevant National Authorities.

The EEA collates the national deliveries into pan-European data sets, but neither edits nor modifies the data provided by the responsible National Authorities.

Hope this information can help you with your project.

Best regards and personal wishes of success in your cooperation with the wikidata project,

Fernanda Néry, PhD Data Management Expert

Data and Information Services

cid:image003.jpg@01D6EF21.7DA7B370 Kongens Nytorv 6 1050 Copenhagen K, Denmark eea.europa.eu Phone: +45 33367100/33435943

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In the report WFD data for Wikidata chapter Copyright, using CC0 for data

My conclusion we have the same license problem with bathing water

• EEA has license CC-BY
  • they recommend countries to use CC-0 license see "Free use of reported Water Framework Directive data"
• To upload a countries bathing water data we need to contact them and get an ok that the data they have is compatible with WIkidata requirement of CC-0

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Added this to Wikidata:WikiProject_European_Bath_Waters#eea.europa.eu_License_problem