Datatypes

Content license

ID content_license

DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft

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License of a work, a dataset or a record, by a short identifier or the URL of the license deed: Creative Commons licenses (cc-by, cc-by-nc-nd, CC0) and the public domain mark. Publication and biodiversity data use them for each record (OpenAlex works, GBIF occurrences). Software licenses are software_license.

Parent datatype
Category category
Categories
Legal and compliance, Publishing and print
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
85/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
Metacrafter rules
1 rule (0 by field name, 1 by value)
Supported by tools
metacrafter

Regular expression

^(?:(?:cc|CC)[-_ ]?(?:(?:by|BY)(?:[-_ ](?:sa|SA|nc|NC|nd|ND|nc[-_ ]sa|NC[-_ ]SA|nc[-_ ]nd|NC[-_ ]ND))?|0|zero|ZERO)(?:[-_ ]?\d[._]\d(?:[-_ ][A-Za-z]{2,5})?)?|https?://(?:www\.)?creativecommons\.org/(?:licenses|publicdomain)/[a-z0-9./-]+)$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
cc-byOpenAlex
cc-by-nc-ndOpenAlex
CC_BY_4_0GBIF API
CC0-1.0SPDX form
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcodeGBIF occurrence
MIT invalidSoftware license

Sources

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