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  "schema": "kallipolis.resource-quality.v1",
  "id": "resource.public-data.obis-api",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "title": "Ocean Biodiversity Information System API boundary",
  "summary": "Official-source access, authentication, request-shaping, freshness, legal, and interpretation boundaries for Ocean Biodiversity Information System API.",
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        "id": "fact.obis.api.access",
        "statement": "The OBIS API exposes marine species occurrences, taxa, measurements, areas, datasets, nodes, checklists, maps, and aggregate statistics.",
        "normativeLevel": "informative",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source.obis.api"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "fact.obis.api.authentication",
        "statement": "Public reads require no user credential and do not grant dataset publication, species validation, provider, policy, or marine-management authority.",
        "normativeLevel": "informative",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source.obis.api"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "fact.obis.api.request",
        "statement": "Clients must bind taxon, geometry, area, depth, date, dataset, quality flags, fields, aggregation, limit, and offset and retain source dataset and occurrence identifiers.",
        "normativeLevel": "informative",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source.obis.api"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "fact.obis.api.boundary",
        "statement": "Occurrence data can be biased, duplicated, misidentified, imprecise, historical, or quality-flagged and does not prove current presence, abundance, ecological status, or management suitability.",
        "normativeLevel": "informative",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source.obis.api"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "language": "en",
  "category": "public-data-api",
  "state": "prepared",
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    "name": "Plato's Kallipolis",
    "type": "organization",
    "accountabilityUrl": "https://platoskallipolis.com/about"
  },
  "access": {
    "mode": "public",
    "url": "https://platoskallipolis.com/resources/public-data-apis/obis-api.json",
    "authentication": "none",
    "robotsAllowed": true
  },
  "provenance": {
    "method": "primary-source",
    "sources": [
      {
        "id": "source.obis.api",
        "url": "https://api.obis.org/",
        "title": "OBIS API documentation",
        "publisher": "Ocean Biodiversity Information System",
        "observedAt": "2026-08-28T15:06:26Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "observedAt": "2026-08-28T15:06:26Z",
  "freshness": {
    "policy": "max-age",
    "state": "current",
    "nextReviewAt": "2026-09-04T15:06:26Z",
    "maxAgeSeconds": 604800
  },
  "license": {
    "id": "source-terms-apply",
    "url": "https://obis.org/manual/access/",
    "redistributionAllowed": false
  },
  "evidence": [
    {
      "id": "evidence.obis.api",
      "type": "source-claim",
      "url": "https://api.obis.org/",
      "observedAt": "2026-08-28T15:06:26Z"
    }
  ]
}