Links & Resources

Civic Initiatives:

Datadotgc.ca
a citizen-led beta for government data

VisibleGovernment.ca
a Canadian non-profit that promotes online tools for government transparency.

Reading Lists:

  • 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

    • Free Data:

    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.

    GeoGratis
    GeoGratis is a portal provided by the Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) which provides geospatial data at no cost and without restrictions via your Web browser.

    GeoBase
    GeoBase is your portal for no fee access to quality geospatial data!

    Cool Tools:
    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.

    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.

    Lists:

    OKFN open-government