Info: licenses in Flanders

[joachimnielandt]

This ticket serves to share our approach when dealing with licenses in Flanders.

Reuse licenses

• if the reuse license documented in gmx:anchor is a known URI it is mapped to dct:license
• else map to dct:rights

For datasets, the known URI's are all reuse licenses that correspond to the expectations of Flemish Open data:

• https://data.vlaanderen.be/id/licentie/modellicentie-gratis-hergebruik/v1.0​
• https://data.vlaanderen.be/id/licentie/onvoorwaardelijk-hergebruik/v1.0​
• https://data.vlaanderen.be/id/licentie/modellicentie-hergebruik-tegen-vergoeding/v1.0​
• https://data.vlaanderen.be/id/licentie/creative-commons-zero-verklaring/v1.0

For dataservices, the following known URI's are used:

• the 4 mentioned above
• https://overheid.vlaanderen.be/Webdiensten-Gebruiksrecht

Accessibility

Mapping of accessibility:

• if gmd:otherConstraints with an gmx:Anchor is available
  • if the xlink:href contains http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/LimitationsOnPublicAccess/noLimitations, accessibility becomes public
  • else, accessibility becomes not-public
• follows the GeoDCAT-AP approach
• problem in practice: what to do when it's not available?
  • solution 1: force the value to be not-public
  • solution 2: keep it empty, monitor / feedback to editor for correction

Related issues

• Definition of the property “access rights” (Dataset) DCAT-AP#301
• Definition of the property “access rights” (Dataservice) DCAT-AP#302