OpenData

This page is always being updated, latest changes January 11, 2015 see ***NEW

  1. International w/Canadian Participation
  2. Canada – Open Data Cities & Province, Feds. & Canadian Int. Participation ***NEW
  3. Canada – Open Data Civil Society
  4. Canada – Open Data Private Sector
  5. Open Data Journalism
  6. Evaluating Open Data Initiatives
  7. Open Data Research
  8. Canada – Government Consultations
  9. Canada – Open Data Hackfests
  10. Canada – Open App Contests
  11. Canada – Open Government / Data / Gatherings & other stuff
  12. Canada – IT Open Data/Government Events – CIOs, IT professionals
  13. Canada – Open Data Events
  14. Canada – Open Data/Access/Government Law
  15. International – Open Data/Access/Government Law
  16. International – Open Data (Sample)
  17. Lists & Catalogs of Data (Sample)
  18. International – Principles
  19. Reading Lists (Sample)
  20. Canada – Federal Government Committees
  21. Cool Tools and Apps
  22. Data Visualization & Consultants
  23. Funding for Open Data / Open Government Initiatives
  24. Canada – List Services

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International w/Canadian Participation

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. NFLd, Newfoundland and Labrador Government portal, Open Government,
  2. AB, Alberta Open Data Government portal
  3. BC, Open Data BC, Citizen Led Portal, Also a meetup group***New
  4. ON, Ontario Open Data Government portal, Ontario.ca/Open Government
  5. QC, Données ouvertes Portail du Gouvernement du Québec, Québec Ouvert – Citizen Led
  6. BC, Data BC – Province 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.
  7. SK, Open Data Saskatchewan, Citizen Led

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Cities/Munipalités ***NEW

  1. G4 Open Data Framework; Municipal Open Government Framework
  2. Banff Open Data Portal, (AB) Pilot
  3. City of Brandon (MB)
  4. City of Burlington (ON), Pilot
  5. City of Calgary (AB)
  6. Calgary Region (AB) ***New
  7. The Municipality of Chatham-Kent (ON)
  8. City of Edmonton (AB) See new Citizen Dashboard,  Open Edmonton Citizen Led & Meetups ***New
  9. City of Fredericton (NB)
  10. Portail de données ouvertes de la ville de Gatineau, Gatineau Ouverte – Citizen Led
  11. County of Grande Prairie (AB)
  12. Open Data Guelph (ON)
  13. Halifax Regional Municipality (NS)
  14. City of Hamilton Open and Accessible Data (ON), City of Hamilton (Transit Feed) (ON), Open Data Hamilton – Citizen Led
  15. OpenHalton (ON) – Citizen Led
  16. City of Kelowna Open Data Catalog (BC)
  17. City of Kamloops (BC)
  18. City of Kitchener (ON)
  19. City of Kingston (ON)
  20. City of London (ON), OpenData London – Citizen Led
  21. Township of Langley (BC)
  22. Open Data Medicine Hat (AB)
  23. Town of Milton (ON)
  24. City of Mississauga – Mississauga Data (ON)
  25. Ville de Montréal Portails données ouvertes (QC), Montréal Ouvert – Citizen Led
  26. City of Nanaimo (BC)
  27. City of Niagara Falls (ON)
  28. Region of Niagara (ON)
  29. Regional District of North Okanagan (BC)
  30. District of North Vancouver (BC) GeoWeb
  31. City of Oakville (ON)
  32. Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (BC)
  33. City of Ottawa (ON), Citizens’ APP Group – OpenData Ottawa; Apps
  34. Region of Peel (ON)
  35. City of Prince George (BC)
  36. Ville de Québec Catalogue de données, Capitale Ouverte (QC)- Citizen Led in Ville de Québec
  37. City of Red Deer, (AB)
  38. City of Regina (SK) Open Gov & Open Data site
  39. District of Saanich (BC)
  40. Open Data Saskatoon, interim portal
  41. Ville de Sherbrooke (QC)
  42. Strathcona County Open Data Portal (AB)
  43. City of Surrey (BC) GIS Catalog
  44. City of Thunder Bay (ON)
  45. City of Toronto (ON); DataTO – Citizen Group
  46. City of Vancouver (BC); Open Data Wiki
  47. City of Vernon (BC)
  48. City of Victoria (BC)
  49. City of Waterloo (ON).
  50. Region of Waterloo (ON), Region of Waterloo – Citizen Led,
  51. City of Welland (ON)
  52. City of Whitehorse (YK)
  53. City of Windsor (ON) Open Data Catalog
  54. City of Winnipeg (MB)
  55. York Region (ON)

City of Guelph (ON) cancelled! , Guelph Coffee and Code – Citizen Led

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Civil Society

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Canada & International & Private Sector

Open Data Journalism (Thanks Roberto Roca, David Akin & James McKinney)

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Open Data Initiative Evaluation/policy

Indicators/Evalutation:

Value of/Impact/Business Models:

Policy

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Open Data Research

Open Government Consultations:

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Canada Open Data Hackfests (sample):

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Canada Open APPS Contests:

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Canada Open Government / Data / Gatherings & other stuff:

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

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Canada Open Government Events:

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

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

  • LAPSI – The European Thematic Network on Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information

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International Open Data (sample):

  • U.S. Open Data Engagement Guide (Github) ***NEW
  • 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 (sample):

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Principles:

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Reading Lists:

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Federal Government Committees:

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Cool Tools/Apps (sample):

  • PlaceSpeak, a location-based community consultation platform. Claim your place. Speak your mind. Influence the outcome.
  • Infogr.am is an easy to use online service that lets you create, share, discover infographics and online charts.
  • Vizualize.me allows you to visualize your resume in one click.
  • Tableau software, visualization tool can help you create an interactive viz and embed it in your website or share it.
  • Water Environmental Hub
  • 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.
  • StamenDesign: Just beautiful stuff!
  • 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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Funding for Open Data / Open Government Initiatives:

Canada List Services:

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