FAIR² Access Governance Documentation

Level 1 – Open Access

This document provides a consolidated representation of the case scenario matrix for Level‑1 access, together with metadata examples for each variant.
It is intended for FAIR²’s public GitHub documentation.

1. Overview of Level 1 (Open Access)

Level 1 datasets are publicly accessible without registration or authentication.
However, FAIR² recognizes that even “open” datasets may require ethical, technical, or governance-based constraints.

FAIR² therefore models Open Access as a profile, refined by a set of controlled constraint axes:

identity: none
environment: open
communityGovernance: none / consultationRecommended
aiTraining: allowed / prohibited
exportRestriction: none / derived-parameters-only
distribution-level constraints (optional, for mixed-access datasets)

2. Level 1 Case Scenario Matrix

Variant	Description	identity	governance	aiTraining	exportRestriction	distribution-level constraints
1.1	Fully open, no restrictions	none	none	allowed	none	none
1.2	Open, but AI training prohibited	none	none	prohibited	none	none
1.3	Open, but only derived parameters may be reused	none	none	allowed	derived-parameters-only	none
1.4	Open, but community consultation recommended	none	consultationRecommended	allowed	none	none
1.5	Metadata fully open; some files restricted	none	none	allowed	none	present at distribution level

3. Metadata Examples for Each Level‑1 Variant

All examples use the FAIR² JSON‑LD namespace:

fair2: https://fair2.ai/ns/

Variant 1.1 — Fully Open, No Restrictions

{
  "@context": {
    "schema": "https://schema.org/",
    "dct": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/",
    "fair2": "https://fair2.ai/ns/"
  },
  "@type": "schema:Dataset",
  "schema:name": "Open Climate Indicators Dataset",
  "dct:license": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/",
  "dct:accessRights": "fair2:AgreementLevel1",
  "fair2:constraints": {
    "identity": "none",
    "environment": "open",
    "communityGovernance": "none",
    "aiTraining": "allowed",
    "exportRestriction": "none"
  }
}

Variant 1.2 — Open, but AI Training Prohibited

{
  "@context": {
    "schema": "https://schema.org/",
    "dct": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/",
    "fair2": "https://fair2.ai/ns/"
  },
  "@type": "schema:Dataset",
  "schema:name": "Open Literary Corpus (Human Reading Only)",
  "dct:license": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/",
  "dct:accessRights": "fair2:AgreementLevel1",
  "fair2:constraints": {
    "identity": "none",
    "environment": "open",
    "communityGovernance": "none",
    "aiTraining": "prohibited",
    "exportRestriction": "none"
  }
}

Variant 1.3 — Open, but Only Derived Parameters May Be Reused

{
  "@context": {
    "schema": "https://schema.org/",
    "dct": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/",
    "fair2": "https://fair2.ai/ns/"
  },
  "@type": "schema:Dataset",
  "schema:name": "Open Satellite Imagery (Derived Outputs Only)",
  "dct:license": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/",
  "dct:accessRights": "fair2:AgreementLevel1",
  "fair2:constraints": {
    "identity": "none",
    "environment": "open",
    "communityGovernance": "none",
    "aiTraining": "allowed",
    "exportRestriction": "derived-parameters-only"
  }
}

Variant 1.4 — Open, but Community Consultation Recommended

{
  "@context": {
    "schema": "https://schema.org/",
    "dct": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/",
    "fair2": "https://fair2.ai/ns/"
  },
  "@type": "schema:Dataset",
  "schema:name": "Open Traditional Ecological Knowledge Summaries",
  "dct:license": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/",
  "dct:accessRights": "fair2:AgreementLevel1",
  "fair2:constraints": {
    "identity": "none",
    "environment": "open",
    "communityGovernance": "consultationRecommended",
    "aiTraining": "allowed",
    "exportRestriction": "none"
  },
  "fair2:governanceProtocol": "https://community.example.org/governance"
}

Variant 1.5 — Metadata Fully Public, Some Files Restricted

{
  "@context": {
    "schema": "https://schema.org/",
    "dct": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/",
    "fair2": "https://fair2.ai/ns/"
  },
  "@type": "schema:Dataset",
  "schema:name": "Open Biodiversity Observations with Restricted Coordinates",

  "dct:license": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/",
  "dct:accessRights": "fair2:AgreementLevel1",

  "fair2:constraints": {
    "identity": "none",
    "environment": "open",
    "communityGovernance": "none",
    "aiTraining": "allowed",
    "exportRestriction": "none"
  },

  "distribution": [
    {
      "@type": "schema:DataDownload",
      "schema:contentUrl": "https://example.org/files/species_list.csv",
      "fair2:constraints": {
        "environment": "open"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "schema:DataDownload",
      "schema:contentUrl": "https://example.org/files/precise_coordinates.csv",
      "fair2:constraints": {
        "identity": "ORCID",
        "environment": "secureHuman",
        "exportRestriction": "aggregated-only"
      }
    }
  ]
}

4. Summary Table

Variant	Meaning	Constraint
1.1	Fully open	None
1.2	Open but AI training disallowed	`aiTraining = prohibited`
1.3	Open but only derived outputs allowed	`exportRestriction = derived-parameters-only`
1.4	Open with community consultation recommended	`communityGovernance = consultationRecommended`
1.5	Mixed-access dataset with public metadata	Distribution-level constraints

← Level 0 | Level 2 →

End of Level 1 Documentation — FAIR² Access Governance