App Guidelines

So, you are developing an application re-using the GCD data? Great! We want our work to be useful for as many people and as widely as possible. To ensure a good experience for users of your app as well as a productive co-operation with the GCD Project, the following guidelines might be of interest.

Make sure users know the origin of the data

First of all, you've read our Data Distribution page, right? In particular, the Creative Commons Attribution license, under which the data is available, requires that information coming from us is credited to the Grand Comics Database, and a link back to the appropriate page in our site is provided if possible.

Making the relationship between the data you are using and the GCD project clear to your users is not only a legal requirement, but it's also mutually beneficial. This way, errors or omissions in our data can be pointed out to us, so that our completness and accuracy improves as more people work with the GCD, and in turn you get both better data in the future as well as more satisfied users who know how they can fix problems with the source information.

On the other hand, please make sure that users are at least briefly made aware of the best best way to contribute back to the GCD.