Data source

Overview

A summary of the data source including:

• What it contains
• Link to documentation
• Strategies to obtain the data with links to API documentation / bulk download / licensing options

Data provenance and quality

A description of the origin of the data and its coverage including potential biases and data quality issues. Includes links to past assessments of the data.

Content

What data is available including, if possible, fields.

Further questions

Other things to think about e.g...

• Initial comparison with alternative sources
• Risks

Role in the project

• What questions can we address with this data?
• This includes questions that we can answer directly as well as questions that this data will help us answer when we use link it with / enrich other sources.