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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/ecb/",
  "source": {
    "slug": "ecb",
    "name": "European Central Bank",
    "domain": "ecb.europa.eu",
    "category": "Government",
    "summary": "EU central bank; primary source for euro-area monetary policy + financial-system data.",
    "founded": 1998,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
    "methodologyVersion": "v0.1"
  },
  "scores": {
    "index": {
      "value": 93,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "A+ — EU primary-source monetary authority; counterpart to Federal Reserve.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "All 4 dimensions ≥90."
        }
      ]
    },
    "discipline": {
      "value": 95,
      "grade": "A+",
      "rationale": "Statutory peer-review on monetary decisions; staff projections + methodology public.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "ECB staff projections",
          "detail": "Quarterly macroeconomic forecasts with methodology."
        }
      ]
    },
    "modernReference": {
      "value": 92,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Statistical Data Warehouse APIs + open data + multi-language coverage.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "ECB SDW",
          "detail": "Statistical Data Warehouse with open API access."
        }
      ]
    },
    "velocity": {
      "value": 92,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "Cited daily by European + global financial press; rate decisions move euro markets.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Press conference cycle",
          "detail": "Bi-weekly governing council decisions drive same-day cycles."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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