open data & policy in canada
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Digital Odyssey 2013: BIG DATA, Small World Friday June 7 Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge Street (1 street north of Bloor) Toronto ON M4W 2G8TRANSCRIPT
Open Data Policy in Canada
Tracey P. LauriaultGeomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
Carleton University (http://gcrc.carleton.ca)
Digital Odyssey 2013: BIG DATA, Small World
Friday June 7
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street (1 street north of Bloor)
Toronto ON M4W 2G8
Table of Contents
1. The globe
2. Open Data Examples
3. Where to get data
4. Data advocacy
5. Data policy
6. Librarian Powers
Blue Marble
Joseph Campbell “the society of the Planet” from the Power of the Myth in reference to the Blue Marble Image released by
NASA in 1972
Open Data Examples
Citizen - Participation
http://opennorth.ca/Budget Plateau
http://budgetplateau.com/
Citizen - Recreation
http://patinermontreal.ca/rinks/74-saint-simon-apotrehttp://montrealouvert.net/a-propos/
Citizen - Accountability
http://mamairie.ca/
http://represent.opennorth.ca/
Citizen – Dining and Health
http://resto-net.ca/en
Citizen - Access
Catherine Roy: [email protected]://montrealaccessible.ca/
http://www.rapliq.org/2011/06/09/journee-de-laccessibilite-dans-le-vieux-montreal/
Citizen - Health
http://www.hackinghealth.ca/about
Citizen – Transparency Les appels d’offres et certain contrats octroyés de la Ville de Montréal et la province du Québec (version détaillée ici)
Le registre des entreprises du Canada
Les dons au partis politiques du Canada
Les dons aux partis politiques du Québec
Le registre des lobbyistes du gouvernment fédéral(aussi registre et journal)
Licenses restreintes dans l'industrie de la construction
Les contrats octroyés par la Ville de Laval depuis 2007
Les contrats octroyés par la Ville de Montréal depuis 2006
http://quebecouvert.org/events/hackonslacorruption/
Citizen - Hackathons
http://www.rhok.org/
http://blog.opendataottawa.ca/
http://montrealouvert.net/2011/11/23/compte-rendu-du-3e-hackathon-montreal-ouvert/?lang=en
http://www.livinglabmontreal.org/TranspoCampMTL
Citizen - Entrepreneur
http://ajah.ca/home/
All 10,000 public and private foundations.
Exhaustive list of federal and provincial funding programs specifically for non-profits (over 700).
Corporate funders (500 and growing).
Research – Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy
Data & Software
- Nunaliit Cybercartographic Atlas Framework (BSD)
- Geogratis Framework & Topographic Data (Unrestricted terms of use)
- Flow lines collected by different hunters (Shared rights)
- More sensitive data – e.g. Bear Dens, sacred sites, environmentally sensitive data are for viewing & use by the community only
- Data will become part of IPY Canadahttps://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/ISIUOP/Inuit+Sea+Ice+Use+and+Occupancy+Project+(ISIUOP)
Community - Place Names
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Atlases
Territory – Treaty Process
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/The+Lake+Huron+Treaty+Atlas
Past & Present
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/The+Lake+Huron+Treaty+Atlas
Citizen Science
http://waterenvironmentalhub.ca/
NGO
http://sjhdc.ca//
NGO, City, University
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Pilot+Atlas+of+the+Risk+of+Homelessness
Environment
http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/
http://www.ecojustice.ca/media-centre/press-releases/court-victory-forces-canada-to-report-pollution-data-for-mines
Municipal Official
http://www.municipaldata-donneesmunicipales.ca/Site/Reporting/en/reporting_tool.php
Chief Medical Officer of Health
http://emis.santemontreal.qc.ca/
Chief Medical Officer of Health
http://www.communityview.ca/index.html
Social Determinants of Health
www.toronto.ca/wellbeing
Transportation planner
Données sources
Au niveau municipal, les données sont accessibles indirectement sur le site de la ville de Montréal. En d'autres termes, ces données n'ont pas été prévues pour être utilisées de manière directe mais sont affichées sur une carte dans la section Info-Travaux.
Au niveau provinciale, les données viennent du Ministère des transports du Québec et de son service Québec 511. Là aussi le MTQ se démarque de ses homologues canadiens en étant a priori le premier à proposer des données GPS pour la localisation des chantiers. http://zonecone.ca/
Transportation planner
http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nrn/index.html;jsessionid=1361AFFCF2C4E5B4D8071
E5D489026EF
Disaster monitoring
Safecast is a global sensor network for collecting and sharing radiation measurements to empower people with data about their environments
http://blog.safecast.org/
Remote Sensing & Human RightsAAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program
Satellite Imagery Analysis for Urban Conflict Documentation: Aleppo, Syria
http://srhrl.aaas.org/geotech/syria/aleppo.htm
Where to get data
Federal Data
Geogratis & Geobase & Discovery Portal – Natural Resources Canada
Treasury Board of Canada – OpenData.gc.ca Research Data Canada – National Research
Council Data Liberation Initiative – ALMOST OPEN –
Statistics Canada & Universities Data dot GC.ca – Citizen’s initiative to Inspire the
Canadian Government Canadian International Development Agency
(CIDA) Open Data
NRCan
http://www.geoconnections.org/fr/resourcelibrary/keyStudiesReports
http://geodiscover.cgdi.ca
http://www.geobase.ca
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/
Open Data Federal Project
http://www.data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F9B7A1E3-1
Research Data
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/34846.html
Open Aid
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/acdi-cida.nsf/eng/FRA-511112638-L57
Provinces
1. Ontario Open Data
2. Alberta Open Data
3. Données ouvertes Portail du Gouvernement du Québec, Québec Ouvert – Citizen Led
4. BC: Data BC, 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.
5. Open Data Saskatchewan, Citizen Led
Open Data Provinces
http://www.donnees.gouv.qc.ca/?node=/accueil
http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/
Open Data Cities1. Banff Open Data Portal, (AB) Pilot
2. City of Brandon (MB)
3. City of Burlington (ON), Pilot
4. City of Calgary (AB)
5. City of Edmonton (AB)
6. City of Fredericton (NB)
7. Portail de données ouvertes de la ville de Gatineau, Gatineau Ouverte (QC) – Citizen Led
8. County of Grande Prairie (AB)
9. City of Guelph (ON), Guelph Coffee and Code – Citizen Led
10. Halifax Regional Municipality (NS)
11. City of Hamilton (Transit Feed) (ON), Open Data Hamilton – Citizen Led
12. OpenHalton (ON) – Citizen Led
13. City of London (ON), OpenData London – Citizen Led
14. Township of Langley (BC)
15. Open Data Medicine Hat (AB)
16. City of Mississauga – Mississauga Data (ON)
17. Ville de Montréal Portails données ouvertes (QC), Montréal Ouvert – Citizen Led
18. City of Nanaimo (BC)
19. City of Niagara Falls (ON
20. Region of Niagara (ON)
21. Regional District of North Okanagan (BC)
22. District of North Vancouver (BC) GeoWeb
23. City of Ottawa (ON), Citizens’ APP Group – OpenData Ottawa; Apps
24. Region of Peel (ON)
25. City of Prince George (BC)
26. Ville de Québec Catalogue de données, Capitale Ouverte (QC)- Citizen Led in Ville de Québec
27. City of Red Deer, Alberta
28. City of Regina (SK) Open Gov & Open Data site
29. Open Data Saskatoon, interim portal
30. City of Surrey (BC) GIS Catalog
31. City of Toronto (ON); DataTO – Citizen Group
32. City of Vancouver (BC); Open Data Wiki
33. City of Victoria (BC)
34. Open Data (city) Waterloo (ON).
35. Region of Waterloo (ON), Region of Waterloo – Citizen Led,
36. City of Windsor (ON) Open Data Catalog
Cities
http://app06.ottawa.ca/en/city_hall/statisticsdata/opendata/info/index.htm
http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/Corporate%20Services/Corporate
%20Information%20Services/OpenData/Pages/OpenData.aspx
Community Data Portal
http://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca/home
Data advocacy
Data Negotiation
http://cdc-dcc.info/mandate.php
Open Data NGOs
http://www.opendatabc.ca/index.html
http://opennorth.ca/
CivicAccess.ca
http://datalibre.ca/links-resources/
Equal Right to be Counted
http://www.ccsd.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=155:update-census-challenge&catid=46 /
Data Liberation Initiative
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-idd/dli-idd-eng.htm /
Public Consultations
20102002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
National Data Archive Consultation (SSHRC)
Stewardship of Research Data in
Canada: A Gap Analysis
Open Government Consultations (TBS)
Mapping the Data Landscape: Report of the 2011 Canadian
Research Data Summit
2011
GeoConnections study on Archiving, Management and Preservation of
Geospatial Data
National Consultation on Access to Scientific Data Final Report (NCASRD)
Toward a National Digital Information Strategy: Mapping the Current Situation in
Canada (LAC)
Canadian Digital Information Strategy (CDIS) (LAC)
Digital Economy Consultation, Industry
Canada (IC)
Data Policy
Geo Research Data
http://www.ipy-api.gc.ca/pg_IPYAPI_052-fra.html
Health Data
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/34846.html
Open Gov. Resolution
http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr-ori-ari_2010_1.aspx
Policy Primers & Guidelines
http://geoconnections.nrcan.gc.ca/18
Open Government Partnership
http://geoconnections.nrcan.gc.ca/18
LAW
http://www.cippic.ca/
Law and Policy
Mapping the Legal and Policy Boundaries of Digital Cartography (SSHRC Partnership Project)
- Centre for Law, Technology and Society
- Natural Resources Canada
- Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
Ethics and Consent in Arctic Digital Research
- Interdisciplinary, historical & cultural study of consent
- Examine Consent Models in the North
- Consult w/ northern data contributors
- Consult w/ researchers & officials
- GCRC & CLTS will Develop a data consent model
- GCRC to Build a data collection consent framework into data collection technology
GCRC – Guiding Principles• Products produced w/public funds belong to the public
Whenever possible open access comes first BSD License Use data from open access sources Creative Commons Share as much as possible Publish in Open Access Journals Create and use open source software, tools, widgets, etc. Design for open source browsers Participate in open access, open data, open source for a Build in consent and data access protocols into data
collection tools Conduct research on access to data, consent, law and
policy Encourage these principles in public consultations Education & Capacity building
Adhere to interoperability standards and specifications Data Preservation
Librarian Powers can be used to…
Point to these data & apps Point citizens to data resources Examine & evaluate portals Cataloguing expertise Data & app curation Be a citizen librarian at hackfest & hackathons Contribute expertise in public consultations Advise your city, prov. & fed gov’ts Develop a local advisory/reference group for non profits Volunteer in a local org. & help w/their data resources (e.g.,
librarians w/out borders)
Contact info: [email protected]