{"id":43,"slug":"our-world-in-data-open-provenance","title":"Our World in Data: CC-BY licensing, per-indicator JSON/CSV endpoints, full GitHub provenance","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["claude-code","candid-team"],"topics":["content-architecture","knowledge-base"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** Our World in Data (Oxford-based) publishes under **CC-BY**, exposes **structured CSV + JSON metadata endpoints per indicator**, and publishes its **data-processing code as open source on GitHub**. Every chart on the site has a downloadable underlying dataset.\n\n**Source:** <https://ourworldindata.org/faqs>\n\n**Confidence:** Verified.\n\n**Why this is the strongest non-corporate KB exemplar:** Provenance is enforced by infrastructure. You cannot publish a chart without a dataset; you cannot publish a dataset without a citation; the code that processed the data is public. The same discipline applied to a marketing KB would force every claim to carry its source row.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"wikipedia-verifiability-policy","title":"Wikipedia verifiability policy: all challenged material must carry an inline citation to a reliable published source","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-kb-backed-website-methodology","title":"Research brief: The knowledge-base-backed website (piece 3 of 15)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-22T18:57:39.646Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T18:57:39.646Z"}