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• How does Canada’s new Open Data Portal and licence fare.

  June 18, 2013 in Uncategorized

  Today the federal government announced that it would make Canadian public sector information (PSI), or administrative data (admin data) or government data more accessible and useable.  A new portal was launched, data are now being disseminated under a more open licence and some additional services are being provided and there is an apps gallery and [...]

• G8 Open Data Charter – Canada Signs on

  June 18, 2013 in academia, Access, canada, datasets, federal government, Open Data, openmovement

  Canada has signed on to the G8 Open Data Charter. The official UK G8 Presidency site includes the Charter and its associated technical Annex.  This Charter falls under one of this year’s G8 agenda items, which is to promote greater transparency. The main points of the charter are: Principle 1: Open Data by Default Principle [...]

• A message from CAUT on saving Library and Archives Canada

  May 31, 2013 in Uncategorized

  I am posting the complete message as a public service to us all!  See the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Save Library and Archives site for updates and additional information. Librarian and Archivist of Canada Resigns On May 15, 2013 Daniel Caron, Chief Librarian and Archivist of Canada, resigned from his post. Caron’s leadership [...]

• OpenGov Infographic by DémocratieOuverte.org

  May 15, 2013 in Uncategorized

  Our friends in la belle province are doing some lovely work! The image is available on Flickr and see what DémocratieOuvete.org are up to!

• Volunteer National Household Survey (V-NHS)

  May 8, 2013 in Uncategorized

  A survey is not a census, a census is a state sanctioned mandatory scientific and systematically carried out count of the population and its characteristics.  It is a national civic duty to fill it out, providing of course one believes that knowing the nature of the Canadian population matters.  A volunteer survey can be a [...]