[CivicAccess-discuss] Open Data Information

[Michael Lenczner]

This is amazing!  Thanks, Tracey!  I'm going to send it to a new
policy institute in Montreal. (http://www.ipamontreal.org/)

About sending links - I'm not sure that one at a time works.  Depends
on how much traffic people are up for.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com> wrote:
> I prepared the following for something else (municipal open data) MOD
> project under discussion and thought it would be a nice brief for here too!
>
> Suggested license - Creative Commons Attribution:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/
> Governments that use Creative Commons Licenses:
>
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Government_use_of_CC_licenses
>
> Federal Government Unrestricted User License:
>
> http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/licence.jsp
> Templates for this license and a few other models are available here -
> http://www.geoconnections.org/publications/Best_practices_guide/Guide_to_Best_Practices_Summer_2008_Final_EN.pdf
> You can read the executive summary here -
> http://www.geoconnections.org/publications/Best_practices_guide/Executive_Summary_EN_V2_2008.htm
>
> Municipal Open Data Projects Canada:
>
> City of Vancouver - https://www.socialtext.net/vandata/index.cgi
> City of Nanaimo - http://www.nanaimo.ca/datafeeds/
> City of Toronto - http://www.toronto.ca/open/catalogue.htm
> City of Edmonton -
> http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/city_organization/city-of-edmonton-open-data-initiative.aspx
> City of Calgary -
> http://blog.mastermaq.ca/2009/07/21/calgary-takes-first-steps-toward-becoming-an-open-city/
> City of Ottawa - Coming soon
>
> Federal Government Open Data Projects:
>
> Geogratis - http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/index.html
> GeoBase - http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html
> GeoConnections Discovery Portal -
> http://www.geoconnections.org/en/index.html - (go to what are you looking
> for in orange box on left) NOTE: Do go and look for data and read the full
> documentation of whatever data you find to give you an idea of what good
> metadata are.  This is a catalogue that a city can register their data sets
> to.
> Canadian Institute for Health Research - Policy on Access to Research
> Outputs - http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/34846.html
> International Polar Year Canada Data Policy -
> http://www.ipy-api.gc.ca/pg_IPYAPI_055-eng.html
> Data Liberation Initiative -
> http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/dli-idd-eng.htm - NOTE: data restricted to
> Canadian universities and colleges only, but it was a first start at getting
> statcan data into the hands of Canadian academics and students.
>
> International Open Data Projects:
>
> US Open Government Initiative - http://www.whitehouse.gov/Open
> Washington DC - http://data.octo.dc.gov/
> New York City - http://www.nyc.gov/html/datamine/html/home/home.shtml
> San Francisco - http://www.datasf.org/
> Government of Australia - http://data.australia.gov.au/
> Government of New Zealand -
> http://blog.e.govt.nz/index.php/2009/08/27/draft-open-access-and-licensing-framework-released/
> and  http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/information-data/nzgoalframework.html
> UK Ordinance Survey - http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1385429
>
> Media about open data:
>
> NYTimes - Local Governments Offer Data to Software Tinkerers -
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/technology/internet/07cities.html (This
> article contains great links to innovative projects using open data)
> CBC - City of Vancouver embraces open data, standards and source -
> http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/tech-vancouver-open-source-standards-software-city.html
> CBC - YouTube City of Toronto David Miller -
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGM9G8ibRPk
> Prediction #2: Government Data Transparency will open new private/public
> sector opportunities in New York in 2010 -
> http://www.businessinsider.com/barack-obama-and-michael-bloomberg-will-transform-public-policy-on-technology-2009-12?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SAI%20Select%2C%20Thursday%2C%2012%2F24%2F09
>
> Innovations stemming from Open Data Projects:
>
> City Transit Applications - Put down the bus schedule, pick up your phone -
> http://www.twincities.com/ci_14108478?nclick_check=1
> NY City Big Apps competition - http://www.nycbigapps.com/
> UK Guardian Data Blog - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
> BC Budget Visualizations – DIY Transparency & Local Government -
> http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/bc-budget-visualizations
> Australia Government 2.0 Task Force mashup contest -
> http://mashupaustralia.org/
> Fix my Street Canada - http://www.fixmystreet.ca/
> When designers get data - Visualizar'09 - Public Data, Data in Public:
> Projects Overview
> http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/12/the_third_edition_of_visualizar.html
> Data Visualization Activism: Showing the Trends in Global Temperature
> http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/12/data_visualization_activism_showing_trends_in_global_temperature.html
>
> Open Knowledge Foundation Comparison of Municipal Open Data Projects (dated
> oct. 29) :
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2009/10/27/open-data-on-cities-an-international-round-up/
>
> Open data lists:
>
> CivicAccess - http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss - see
> the archive threads for a list
> Datalibre.ca (Blog) - http://datalibre.ca/
> Visible Government (Blog) - http://visiblegovernment.ca
>
>
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