[CivicAccess-discuss] Open Data Information

Fri Jan 8 17:33:49 EST 2010

If you'd like more links on open data (who doesn't?), VisibleGovernment will be launching a link farm site shortly at http://opendatalinks.com.

The website pulls in links tweeted on twitter tags like #opendata and #opendatalinks, and allows an editor to do some basic categorization based on topic and geography.

For now, the links in our collection are also exported to delicious:

References: http://delicious.com/vizgov/Reference
News: http://delicious.com/vizgov/Article
Projects: http://delicious.com/vizgov/Project

Jennifer Bell
http://visiblegovernment.ca

--- On Wed, 1/6/10, Michael Lenczner <mlenczner at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Lenczner <mlenczner at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Open Data Information
> To: "civicaccess discuss" <civicaccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca>
> Received: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 7:04 PM
> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tracey P. Lauriault
> > 613-234-2805
> > https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
> >
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