OpenData

This page is always being updated, latest changes Feb.22, 2012

1. International w/Canadian Participation
2. Canada – Open Data Cities & Province, Feds. & Canadian Int. Participation
3. Government Consultations
4. Canada – Open Data Hackfests
5. Open App Contests
6. Canada – Open Government / Data / Gatherings & other stuff:
7. Canada – IT Open Data/Government Events – CIOs, IT professionals:
8. Canada – Open Government Events
9. Canada – Open Data/Access/Government Law
10. Canada – Associations
11. International – Open Data
12. Lists & Catalogs of Data
13. International – Principles
14. Reading Lists
15. Canada – Federal Government Committees
16. Cool Tools and Apps
17. Data Visualization & Consultants
18. Canada – Civic Initiatives
19. Funding for Open Data / Open Government Initiatives
20. Canada – Lists

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International w/Canadian Participation

• Open Government Partnership
• Open Knowledge Foundation

Canada – Open Data Cities, Provinces, Feds.

Federal:

1. Geogratis & Geobase & Discovery Portal & Atlas of Canada - GeoConnections Natural Resources Canada
2. Office of the Information Commissioners Open Government Resolutions
3. Treasury Board of Canada – OpenData.gc.ca
4. Research Data Canada – National Research Council
5. ALMOST OPEN – Statistics Canada & Universities – Data Liberation Initiative
6. Data dot GC.ca, Citizen’s initiative to Inspire the Canadian Government
7. Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Open Data

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Provinces

1. Québec Ouvert – Citizen Led
2. BC: Data BC – Province, OpenData BC- Citizen Led and B.C.’s Climate Change Data Catalogue is a composite listing of publicly available data related to climate change, with a focus on British Columbia data.

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Cities/Munipalités

1. G4 Open Data Framework; Municipal Open Government Framework
2. City of Burlington (ON), Pilot
3. City of Calgary (AB)
4. City of Edmonton (AB)
5. City of Fredericton (NB)
6. Gatineau Ouverte – Citizen Led
7. City of Guelph (ON), Guelph Coffee and Code – Citizen Led
8. City of Hamilton (Transit Feed) (ON), Open Data Hamilton – Citizen Led
9. OpenHalton (ON) – Citizen Led
10. City of London (ON), OpenData London – Citizen Led
11. Township of Langley (BC)
12. City of Mississauga – Mississauga Data (ON)
13. Ville de Montréal Portails données ouvertes (QC), Montréal Ouvert – Citizen Led
14. City of Nanaimo (BC)
15. City of Niagara Falls (ON)
16. District of North Vancouver (BC) GeoWeb
17. City of Ottawa (ON), Citizens’ APP Group – OpenData Ottawa; Apps
18. Ville de Québec Catalogue de données, Capitale Ouverte (QC)- Citizen Led in Ville de Québec
19. City of Prince George (BC) catalog
20. City of Regina (SK) Open Gov & Open Data site
21. City of Surrey (BC) GIS Catalog
22. City of Toronto (ON); DataTO – Citizen Group
23. City of Vancouver (BC); Open Data Wiki
24. Region of Waterloo (ON) – Citizen Led
25. City of Windsor (ON) Open Data Catalog

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Open Government Consultations:

• Open Government Consultations, Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) of Canada, December 6, 2011, to January 16, 2012
• Digital Economy Consulations, Industry Canada, May 2010

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Canada Open Data Hackfests:

• Open Data Ottawa Hackfest
• Random Hacks of Kindness
• Hackfest Canada 2011?
• Hackfest Québec
• Edmonton Hackfest
• Toronto Hackathon – Mobile Information Week Hack-a-thon,
• Vancouver Hackathons
• Hackfest Montreal, 3rd Hackathon Report
• International Hackathon – location of events

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Canada Open APPS Contests:

• Apps4Good
• Apps4Edmonton
• Apps4Ottawa / AppsPour Ottawa
• Apps4ClimateAction BC

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Canada Open Government / Data / Gatherings & other stuff:

• Transportation Camp
• GouvCamp
• TransitCamp – Vid. Toronto & Wiki, Vancouver
• Ignite – Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Waterloo
• BarCamp – News Archive (Canadian Cities are Listed), Front Page Listings Canada & Past Events (Canada Listings)
• DemoCamp – Toronto, Calgary, Guelph, Montreal, Vancouver
• ChangeCamp & Wiki
• GovCamp Canada
• #W2P (Web 2.0 Practitioners in the Government of Canada) – twtvite, GTEC blog post, Toronto Star Article
• #GC20 – Government of Canada and Web 2.0
• Blog GC20.ca
• GCpedia – Government of Canada Internal Wiki
• Campaign for Open Government

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Canada IT Open Data/Government Events – CIOs, IT professionals:

• Lac Carling
• MISA – Municipal Information System Association

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Canada Open Government Events:

• Right to Know Week, Information Commissioner
• Open Access Week, SPARC

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Canada – Open Data/Access/Government/Transparency – Law:

• BC Open Government Licence
• CIPPIC Report on Open Data City Terms of Use
• CitizenLab – Munk School of Global Affairs
• Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
• Michael Geist’s Blog
• Centre for Law, Technology and Society, Ottawa University
• City of Surrey has adopted a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) v1.0

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Canada – Associations:

• IASSIST Canada (International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology)
• Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
• Canadian Association of Public Data Users (CAPDU)
• Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA)
• Community Data Program, Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD)
• Community Data Canada, Multi-Sector Collaboration and Multi-Government Collaboration

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International Open Data:

• U.S. – www.data.gov
• U.K. – data.gov.uk ; UK Guardian Open Data
• Australia - data.australia.gov.au
• New Zealand – cat.open.org.nz
• World Bank – http://data.worldbank.org
• OpenPlans: US non-profit technology organization focused on civic engagement and open government. We use journalism and open source software to turn data into accessible, useful information. This work engages the average person in shaping their community.
• CivicCommons: An independent non-profit organization, Civic Commons to help institutions share code and best practices, reform procurement practices, and learn to function not only as a provider of services but as a platform to which an ecosystem of industry can add value for government and its citizens.
• Code for America: helps city governments become more transparent, connected and efficient by connecting the talents of cutting-edge web developers with people who deliver city services and want to embrace the transformative power of the web to achieve more impact with less money. Inspired in part by Teach for America, CFA works with city officials and leading web development talent to identify and then develop web solutions that can then be shared and rolled out more broadly to cities across America.

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Lists & Catalogs of Data

• List Open Data Catalogs – Open Knowledge Foundation
• List of Lists, OKNF
• datacatalogs.org
• List Open Data Competitions – Open Knowledge Foundation
• OECD Data
• Open Government Partnership
• Global Map
• TWC International Open Government Dataset Catalog (IOGDC)
• Data Catalog Interoperability Workshop (OKNF)

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Principles:

• 7 Principles, Ontario
• 8 principles of Open Government Data
• 10 Principles for Opening Up Government Information
• Data Sharing Principles for the Global Earth Observing System of Systems

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Reading Lists:

• Research Data Canada Summit Report, 2012
• GeoConnections: The Dissemination of Government Geographic Data in Canada – Guide to Best Practices
• Open Data Open City, Martin Prosperity Institute
• CIHR: Data, Data Everywhere…: Improving access to population health and health services research data in Canada
• Open Government: Resolution of Canada’s Access to Information and Privacy Commissioners
• Tracey’s Fave Blogs (Art, Cartography, Viz, OpenData)
• Open Gov Data List of Readings
• Zotero list – and group library
• Measuring the Social and Economic Costs and Benefits of Public Sector Information Online: A Review of the Literature and Future Directions (National Academies Press)
• Policy guidelines for the development and promotion of governmental public domain information
• The Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks: Toward a Better Understanding of Different Access and Reuse Policies: Workshop Summary
• Toward Implementation of the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles, Journal of Space Law (2009).
• Data Sharing Principles for the Global Earth Observing System of Systems
• 2008 OECD Recommendation on Public Sector Information and related materials.
• EC Public Sector Information (LAPSI), run out of the Politecnico di Torino.
• A US-China Roundtable on Scientific Data Cooperation and a related study.
• Chilean national scientific data policy, CONICYT (July 2010) – Previously, Measuring European Public Sector Information Resources (2003)
• COMMUNIA, looking at public domain info, out of Turin.
• Board on Research Data and Information, at the U.S.National Research Council

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Federal Government Committees:

• House committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics / Comité permanent de l’accès à l’information, de la protection des renseignements personnels et de l’éthique
• Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) / Comité permanent de l’industrie, des sciences et de la technologie (INDU)
• Legislative Committee on Bill C-32 (CC32) / Comité législatif chargé du projet de loi C-32 (CC32)
• Standing Committee on Transport and Communication /Comité permanent des transport et des communications

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Cool Tools/Apps:

• Zone Cone
• Budget Plateau
• Killer Open Data Apps from around the world
• Electoral Boundary API, Vote.ca
• How’d They Vote Gov. Representative API, How’d They Vote.ca
• many eyes: Their “goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis”. It makes visualizing dataset very easy indeed.
• Ushahidi: Information Collection, Visualization, & Interactive Mapping Ushahidi builds tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories.
• Visualizing.org: is a community of creative people working to make sense of complex issues through data and design… and it’s a shared space and free resource to help you achieve this goal.
• Guardian Open Platform: “is the suite of services that make it possible for our partners to build applications with the Guardian. We’ve opened up our platform so that everyone can benefit from our journalism, our brand, and the technologies that power guardian.co.uk.” Quite amazing really. It is accompanied by many other useful data sharing and visualization services such as a DataStore and a Datablog.
• Note there are many many more – see hackfest and app contest pages

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Data Visualization/Consultants:

• FFunction: DataVisualizations Data visualization and infographics are powerful means of communicating data, statistics or information. We strive for simple, interesting, beautiful visualizations.
• ChartPorn: Chart Porn is compiled by Washington DC based economist/artist Dustin Smith. This site grew out of an admiration for all the amazing data analysis work being done in the world, and the desire to pull it all together in one place to feed into my personal creativity- rolodex
• EagerEyes: EagerEyes is Robert Kosara’s place to reflect on the world of information visualization and visual communication of data. The goal is to help digest things that are happening in the field and discuss developments that may be tangential or early, but that are likely to have an impact.
• Information is Beautiful: Issues, Ideas, Knowledge, data – visualized
• Information Aesthetics Where form follows data
• FlowingData
• Visual Complexity
• Visual.ly

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Civic Initiatives:

• Civicaccess.ca
• Open North: builds online tools to make democracy better
• Datadotgc.ca a citizen-led beta for government data
• VisibleGovernment.ca a Canadian non-profit that promotes online tools for government transparency
• Democracy Watch has an Open Government Campaign
• Canadian Civil Liberties Association – Transparency and Open Government

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Funding for Open Data / Open Government Initiatives:

• Canada? There must be some…
• Ontario Research Network for Electronic Commerce (ORNEC) (Law)
• Open Knowledge Foundation – UK
• Sunlight Foundation – US
• Knight Foundation – Journalism
• Vodafone Foundation
• Omidyar Network
• Open Society Foundations
• US National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Why Invest in the World Wide Web Foundation
• Lists: Non Profit Tech Funding

Lists:

• OKFN open-government
• CivicAccess.ca

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