Project Governance
Transparency, clear policies and licences can help to build trust. What approaches to governance can support collaborative maintenance?
Getting Started
All patterns in this category
Automatically Acquire Privileges
In a large community it can be time-consuming to individually assess contributors in order to grant them specific privileges or roles.
Clear Licensing
Both contributors and reusers need to understand what rights they have to use the combined dataset
Clearly Defined Roles
In collaborative, community-driven projects there can be a lack of clarity around who is responsible for making decisions.
Contributor Licence
The rights to use and share data contributed to your project needs to be understood by everyone.
Grant Privileges
Specific features of a project need to be restricted to certain users
Minimise Harm
Collecting data without thinking about the potential impact of its use may cause harm.
Published Policies
Collaboration across distributed groups requires clarity around rules, policies and procedures.
Transparent Stewardship
People need to be confident in your project’s sustainability in order for them to contribute over the long term.
Visible Processes
Trust needs to be built within the community.