- From: Simson L. Garfinkel via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:55:01 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
simsong has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/dxwg: == Support description of legal authorities == ### Support description of legal authorities Status: Identifier: Creator: (your name) Deliverable(s): DCATv3 ## Tags dcat,profile,dataset,documentation,provenance ## Stakeholders Governmental entities, be they data producers, data publishers or data consumers. ## Problem statement Within governments, it is frequently important to document the legal authority under which data are: * Collected * Retained or destroyed * Distributed Currently, DCATv3 lacks a way to formally represent this. Needed are attributes for: * CollectionAuthority * RetentionAuthority * DistributionAuthority Also needed is an ontology to describe legal authorities. Within the United States such authorities can be a specific law, a regulation, an administrative procedure, a legal precedent, or a constitutional authority, an executive order, or some other legal instrument. Although the temptation is to make the authorities a free-formed text field, it may be better to attempt more specificity. ## Existing approaches Largely this is not formally tracked by most data producers or consumers, but is tracked with a variety of informal mechanisms. ## Links ## Requirements It would be useful to be able to cite a specific authority, and to distinguish between "unknown," "no existing authority," and other missing data conditions. ## Related use cases ## Comments --- Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1406 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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