How to cite the dashboard
If you use the Safer Parks Dashboard in your work, we ask that you please acknowledge and cite us.
Dashboard
If you use insights, screenshots, text, or images from the dashboard in your work, please cite us in your work as follows:
Maeve Murphy Quinlan, Anna Barker, Melissa Barrientos, Victoria Houlden, Francesca Pontin (2026): The Safer Parks Dashboard. University of Leeds. https://doi.org/10.5518/1951. Accessed:
Published image or screenshot captions
In addition to citing us in the text of your work, please include a caption containing this information in any published screenshots from the dashboard (note that this is not required for internal documents):
Source: Screenshot from the Safer Parks Dashboard (Murphy Quinlan et al., 2026), University of Leeds. DOI: 10.5518/1951. Includes OpenStreetMap-derived content and map data, together with derived datasets incorporating information licensed under the UK Open Government Licence (OGL). Where shown, toilet facility data are © 2025 Toilet Map (CC BY 4.0). Other third-party data may be subject to separate licences and attribution requirements; full layer attribution statements are available on the Safer Parks Dashboard. Captured: [Add date here]
Please update the timestamp to match the date the image was captured or downloaded. Where multiple screenshots or images are included in a document, this can be included once as opposed to duplicated for each.
Data
If you download data from the dashboard following the “Download Data” link on the dashboard sidebar, the appropriate citation is provided alongside the relevant dataset.
If you use data read directly from the dashboard, without downloading supplementary data files, please just use the dashboard citation provided above.
License and Copyright information
Copyright 2026 University of Leeds.
This resource contains material under different licences:
- Source code: the code for the Safer Parks Dashboard and its data-processing scripts is licensed under the MIT Licence: The MIT License – Open Source Initiative. The full licence text is provided in the LICENSE file included with the code.
- Other content: unless otherwise stated, all other content created by the authors, including documentation, text, figures, screenshots and outputs or insights derived from the dashboard, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- Third-party data: third-party data included in this resource, displayed in the dashboard, or used to derive it (including any basemap imagery shown in screenshots) remain subject to their original licences and attribution requirements. The licences above do not apply to this material.
