Attribution

To comply with the CC BY 4.0 license that used by OpenActive data publishers, data users must attribute OpenActive data wherever it is used.

Getting attribution data from Dataset Sites

The JSON-LD within each OpenActive Dataset Site (see here for how to access these), will include at least the following properties:

{
  "@context": [
    "https://schema.org/",
    "https://openactive.io/"
  ],
  "@type": "Dataset",
  "@id": "https://data.everyoneactive.com/OpenActive/",
  "name": "Everyone Active Sessions and Facilities",
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Everyone Active",
    "legalName": "Sports and Leisure Management LTD",
    ...
  },
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  ...
}

Displaying attribution to end users

To comply with the CC BY 4.0 license, any frontend that displays OpenActive data must include the relevant open data attribution alongside it.

The attribution should be included somewhere on the page where the data appears (i.e. the session or facility page).

The following HTML is recommended for attribution on any opportunity page, based on the data in the Dataset retrieved above:

Source: <a href="{{Dataset.url}}" property="odrs:attributionURL">
    <span property="odrs:attributionText">{{Dataset.publisher.name}}</span>
</a>

For example, for data from Everyone Active, the attribution should be hyperlinked as follows somewhere on a page displaying that data, as stipulated at the bottom of its Dataset Site at https://data.everyoneactive.com/OpenActive/:

Source: Everyone Active

Full Example for Fusion Lifestyle

The following JSON-LD should be retrieved from the Dataset Site of Fusion Lifestyle:

{
  "@type": "Dataset",
  "url": "https://opendata.fusion-lifestyle.com/OpenActive/",
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Fusion Lifestyle",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

And rendered into the following HTML for display to the user:

Source: <a href="https://opendata.fusion-lifestyle.com/OpenActive/" property="odrs:attributionURL">
    <span property="odrs:attributionText">Fusion Lifestyle</span>
</a>

Which is displayed as follows:

Source: Fusion Lifestyle