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CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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+## Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
+
+## Our Pledge
+
+In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as
+contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and
+our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body
+size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience,
+nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and
+orientation.
+
+## Our Standards
+
+Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment
+include:
+
+* Using welcoming and inclusive language
+* Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
+* Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
+* Focusing on what is best for the community
+* Showing empathy towards other community members
+
+Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
+
+* The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or
+advances
+* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
+* Public or private harassment
+* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic
+  address, without explicit permission
+* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
+  professional setting
+
+## Our Responsibilities
+
+Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable
+behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in
+response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
+
+Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or
+reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions
+that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or
+permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate,
+threatening, offensive, or harmful.
+
+## Scope
+
+This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces
+when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of
+representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail
+address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed
+representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be
+further defined and clarified by project maintainers.
+
+## Enforcement
+
+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be
+reported by contacting the project team at [INSERT EMAIL ADDRESS]. All
+complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that
+is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is
+obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident.
+Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.
+
+Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good
+faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other
+members of the project's leadership.
+
+## Attribution
+
+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 1.4,
+available at [http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4][version]
+
+[homepage]: http://contributor-covenant.org
+[version]: http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+## How to contribute
+Government employees, public and members of the private sector are encouraged to contribute to the repository by **forking and submitting a pull request**. 
+
+(If you are new to GitHub, you might start with a [basic tutorial](https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git) and  check out a more detailed guide to [pull requests](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/).)
+
+Pull requests will be evaluated by the repository guardians on a schedule and if deemed beneficial will be committed to the master.
+
+All contributors retain the original copyright to their stuff, but by contributing to this project, you grant a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to all users **under the terms of the license under which this project is distributed.**

README.md

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 ## NR Permitting Data Specifications Repository
 ---
-This repository contains data models and other artifacts developed for permitting modernization initiative
-
-## Features
-
-## Usage
-
-## Requirements
-
-## Installation
-
-## Project Status
-
-## Goals/Roadmap
-
-## Getting Help or Reporting an Issue
+This repository contains common schemas related to permitting in the Natural Resources and includes other artifacts developed for permitting modernization initiative. Leveraging common schemas will enable consistenacy, cross sector governance, identify patterns and opportunities and allow reporting and analytics to feed into decision making.
 
 ## How to Contribute
 
-*If you are including a Code of Conduct, make sure that you have a [CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md](SAMPLE-CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) file, and include the following text in here in the README:*
-"Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms."
+Review the [Contributing Guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) and the [Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
 
 ## License
 
-Detailed guidance around licenses is available 
-[here](/BC-Open-Source-Development-Employee-Guide/Licenses.md)
-
-Attach the appropriate LICENSE file directly into your repository before you do anything else!
-
-The default license For code repositories is: Apache 2.0
-
-Here is the boiler-plate you should put into the comments header of every source code file as well as the bottom of your README.md:
-
     Copyright 2019 Province of British Columbia
 
     Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
     you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
     You may obtain a copy of the License at 
 
-       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
     Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
     distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
     WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
     See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
     limitations under the License.
-
-For repos that are made up of docs, wikis and non-code stuff it's Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, and should look like this at the bottom of your README.md:
-
-<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons Licence" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/80x15.png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">YOUR REPO NAME HERE</span> by <span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" property="cc:attributionName">the Province of British Columbia</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
-
-and the code for the cc 4.0 footer looks like this:
-
-    <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons Licence"
-    style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/80x15.png" /></a><br /><span
-    xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">YOUR REPO NAME HERE</span> by <span
-    xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" property="cc:attributionName">the Province of British Columbia
-    </span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
-    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
-