Data Governance

Content Domains & Ownership

Domain	Owner	Review Cycle	SLA
Economic facts & indicators	Editorial Team	Quarterly	30 days after source update
Tourism & travel	Editorial Team	Monthly	14 days after change
Historical content	Heritage Expert Panel	Annually	90 days after discovery
Diaspora directory	Community Manager	Continuous	Member-driven updates
API & technical docs	Tech Lead	Per release	Same-day as deployment
Investment data	Economic Analyst	Quarterly	30 days after source update
UNESCO & heritage sites	Heritage Expert Panel	Annually	90 days

Quality Controls

• Automated validation: Schema validation on all API responses
• Freshness monitoring: Alerts when content exceeds its review interval
• Link integrity: Automated checks for broken URLs in sitemap and llms.txt
• Consistency checks: Cross-validation between API, HTML, and llms.txt surfaces
• Test coverage: 284 automated tests (212 unit + 72 E2E)

Data Contracts

Each dataset exposed via the API follows a data contract:

Field	Required	Description
owner	Yes	Team or person responsible
source	Yes	Primary data source
confidence	Yes	verified / estimate / editorial
valid_from	Yes	Start of validity period
valid_until	Yes	End of validity period
reviewed_at	Yes	Last human review date
refresh_interval	Yes	Expected update frequency

Change Management

• All content changes tracked via changelog (JSON + Atom feed)
• Breaking API changes announced with Deprecation and Sunset headers
• Versioned llms.txt with last-updated field
• Discovery manifest updated on each release