Governance & trust
What a dataset is allowed to say, who it is allowed to say it about, and how anyone proves where it came from.
Three questions that are not about the geometry at all: may I hold this data, may I publish what I derived from it, and can I prove where it came from?
They arrive late and they are expensive to answer late. A dataset assembled without a licence trail cannot be republished. An analysis of individual locations that was aggregated carelessly cannot be released at all. A number that gets challenged and has no provenance behind it cannot be defended, and the work is repeated.
Two topics: privacy and sensitive locations, and the metadata, licensing and provenance record that travels with a dataset.
Topics in Governance & trust
Each topic page brings that subject's concepts, how-to guides and fixes onto one page.
- Privacy & sensitive locations Coordinates are personal data: re-identification risk, geomasking, aggregation thresholds and the checks to run before a release.
- Metadata, licensing & provenance The record that travels with the data: what it describes, who may use it, which version it is, and what produced it.