[dxwg] Support description of legal authorities (#1406)

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== Support description of legal authorities ==

### Support description of legal authorities
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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.


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## 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

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Received on Friday, 24 September 2021 19:55:03 UTC