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http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&pageId=26&id=5544
Tracey P. Lauriault
Post Doctoral Fellow Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
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FW: Announcement - PM announces new measures to make Government data more accessible to Canadians
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Nowif he would only do something to make information more accessible that would be truly noteworthy. M From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Tracey P. Lauriault http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&pageId=26&id=5544 -- Tracey P. Lauriault Post Doctoral Fellow Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre http://datalibre.ca/ _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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The devil is in the details.
Or the high level policies. Damn, I can never remember which it is.... -glen On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:28 AM, michael gurstein <[hidden email]> wrote: > Nowif he would only do something to make information more accessible that > would be truly noteworthy. > > > > M > > > > > > From: [hidden email] > [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Tracey P. > Lauriault > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:07 AM > To: civicaccess discuss > Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Announcement - PM announces new measures to > make Government data more accessible to Canadians > > > > http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&pageId=26&id=5544 > > > > -- > > Tracey P. Lauriault > > Post Doctoral Fellow > > Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre > > https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault > > http://datalibre.ca/ > 613-234-2805 > > > > _______________________________________________ > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss -- - http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/ - _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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The new things I've noticed today: - Relaunched data.gc.ca. Looks nicer, based on CKAN so now has an API. - data.gc.ca now has a government-wide search engine for ATI request summaries. The search engine is new, right? It's certainly a useful tool.
- New license version [1]. It struck me as rather good: clear, straightforward, nothing I objected to.
- Signing the G8 Open Data Charter [2]. The charter is notably well-written (I get a feeling the UK is responsible?) and says many right things and no wrong ones, though -- as a document signed by eight countries -- it's not tremendously demanding or specific. The most interesting bit to me was the list of high value datasets, in 6.2. It's a good summary of openable datasets, and includes things like "company/business register", "transaction spend data", "call for tender" -- datasets I think many of us would be quite interested in having here. The charter calls for countries to release action plans in October describing how they'll release data in each of the categories in the list.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Glen Newton <[hidden email]> wrote: The devil is in the details. _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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Teresa Scassa did an excellent review here of the new licence! Seems like they got it right.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Michael Mulley <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Also note the request for postal code data! https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-charter/g8-open-data-charter-and-technical-annex
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote: Teresa Scassa did an excellent review here of the new licence! Seems like they got it right. -- Tracey P. Lauriault Post Doctoral Fellow Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
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Yes, ATI summaries search engine is new, much better than visiting 170 websites! However, the link to download the bulk data is broken. I can find a dataset through the dataset search, but all the download links fail: http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/0797e893-751e-4695-8229-a5066e4fe43c I've reported the issue.
Also new: - You can vote up suggested datasets http://data.gc.ca/eng/suggested-datasets (You apparently cannot vote up from the summary page, so you need to click through to the dataset) - You can rate and comment on individual datasets - 5-star rating on each dataset http://data.gc.ca/eng/openness-rating, based on Tim Berners-Lee's rating scheme - A mysteriously opaque RSS feed for each dataset e.g. http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/48f10fb9-78a2-43a9-92ab-354c28d30674 - There seems to be a preview of geodata, but it just renders as a big triangle for me - Reports on past consultations, including recently completed roundtables: http://data.gc.ca/eng/consultations - A nod to Sunlight Foundation http://data.gc.ca/eng/open-data-principles - A nod to Open Knowledge Foundation http://data.gc.ca/eng/open-data-101 - CKAN API http://data.gc.ca/eng/access-our-application-programming-interface-api It looks like the Action Plan hasn't been updated (if it has, the changes must be minor - anyone know?). I would really like to see Canada sign the Arhus convention: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/aarhus/ More important than IATI, in my opinion. Anyway, an improvement despite various bugs which I assume will be fixed shortly. Vote up the postal code database! http://data.gc.ca/eng/suggested-datasets/postal-code-database James On 2013-06-18, at 12:21 PM, Michael Mulley wrote: > The new things I've noticed today: > > - Relaunched data.gc.ca. Looks nicer, based on CKAN so now has an API. > > - data.gc.ca now has a government-wide search engine for ATI request summaries. The search engine is new, right? It's certainly a useful tool. > > - New license version [1]. It struck me as rather good: clear, straightforward, nothing I objected to. > > - Signing the G8 Open Data Charter [2]. The charter is notably well-written (I get a feeling the UK is responsible?) and says many right things and no wrong ones, though -- as a document signed by eight countries -- it's not tremendously demanding or specific. The most interesting bit to me was the list of high value datasets, in 6.2. It's a good summary of openable datasets, and includes things like "company/business register", "transaction spend data", "call for tender" -- datasets I think many of us would be quite interested in having here. The charter calls for countries to release action plans in October describing how they'll release data in each of the categories in the list. > > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Glen Newton <[hidden email]> wrote: > The devil is in the details. > Or the high level policies. > Damn, I can never remember which it is.... > > -glen > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:28 AM, michael gurstein <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Nowif he would only do something to make information more accessible that > > would be truly noteworthy. > > > > > > > > M > > > > > > > > > > > > From: [hidden email] > > [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Tracey P. > > Lauriault > > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:07 AM > > To: civicaccess discuss > > Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Announcement - PM announces new measures to > > make Government data more accessible to Canadians > > > > > > > > http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&pageId=26&id=5544 > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Tracey P. Lauriault > > > > Post Doctoral Fellow > > > > Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre > > > > https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault > > > > http://datalibre.ca/ > > 613-234-2805 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list > > [hidden email] > > http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss > > > > -- > - > http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/ > - > _______________________________________________ > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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Tracey ...
Did you mean to include a link? ... ggt On 18/06/2013 10:28 AM, Tracey P.
Lauriault wrote:
Teresa Scassa did an excellent review here of the new licence! Seems like they got it right. _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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Try http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=131:canada%E2%80%99s-open-government-licence-v20-is-released&Itemid=81 I haven't seen it here previously.
On 2013-06-18, at 1:19 PM, Gerry Tychon wrote:
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links to some docs here -
http://datalibre.ca/2013/06/18/g8-open-data-charter-canada-signs-on/ link to Scassa's review - http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=131:canada%E2%80%99s-open-government-licence-v20-is-released&Itemid=81 On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Gerry Tychon <[hidden email]> wrote:
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The earlier review is: http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=113:canadas-new-draft-open-government-licence&Itemid=83 See also: http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=124:federal-court-of-appeal-reminds-government-there-is-no-copyright-in-data
On 2013-06-18, at 1:40 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote: links to some docs here - _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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On 13-06-18 01:01 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
> Also note the request for postal code data! > https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-charter/g8-open-data-charter-and-technical-annex Thanks for highlighting that. Under "Action 2" "We recognise the following as areas of high value, both for improving our democracies and encouraging innovative re-use of data." ... "Geospatial Topography, postcodes, national maps, local maps" Is the PCFRF problem solved now, given the shapefiles for the riding boundaries weren't the problem but the postal code shapes? Wonder if someone will claim that this is a release of a list of postal codes, but not the required geospacial data as the chart suggests. Note: If anyone hasn't seen my ongoing complaints about this, the blog articles are here: http://www.digital-copyright.ca/search/node/pcfrf -- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition! http://l.c11.ca/ict "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or portable media player from my cold dead hands!" _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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On 2013-06-18, at 2:07 PM, Russell McOrmond wrote: Is the PCFRF problem solved now, given the shapefiles for the riding The data hasn't been released yet, so I think the problem still exists, right? _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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On 13-06-18 02:32 PM, James McKinney wrote:
> The data hasn't been released yet, so I think the problem still exists, > right? It was partly a joke, given there have been multiple announcements over the last decade that have suggested that the government would finally release this simple amount of data under a reasonable license. But I'm still waiting, and won't be remotely surprised if nothing new comes out of this announcement. Sorry - cynical. -- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition! http://l.c11.ca/ict "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or portable media player from my cold dead hands!" _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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Even though it does not seem to be
officially announced, the code used for the CKAN
customization/extension is available on github:
https://github.com/open-data/ (via Richard/ @scilib) Steph Le 13-06-18 15:12, Russell McOrmond a écrit : On 13-06-18 02:32 PM, James McKinney wrote:The data hasn't been released yet, so I think the problem still exists, right?It was partly a joke, given there have been multiple announcements over the last decade that have suggested that the government would finally release this simple amount of data under a reasonable license. But I'm still waiting, and won't be remotely surprised if nothing new comes out of this announcement. Sorry - cynical. _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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I'm still finding the search to be not super effective. Anyone having a different experience? Also curious about Tracey's thoughts about the metadata available. -- @daeaves Sent from my iPhone
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Can't seem to download the metadata set: http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/e418841e-d9dc-4caf-9a19-09b3269a3e1e
Also, some datasets mysteriously use 5 links to point to 2 relevant pages: http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/26a65f3a-dd4d-47b5-92f9-99cf51b89a0b On 2013-06-18, at 4:00 PM, David Eaves wrote:
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