Background
Ministerial press release: Guidelines unlock govt software for innovation
Loomio discussion: NZGOAL Software Extension
Case study: NZGOAL Software Extension consultation process
Consultation archive and analytics report | data pack
NZGOAL software extension…
ContentsIntroduction and context
Copyright, databases and datasets
The law as stated in NZGOAL
Developments since NZGOAL was approved in 2010
Suitability of Creative Commons licences for copyright databases and datasets
Consideration…
Introduction1 When NZGOAL was first released in August 2010, it supported use of the Creative Commons 3.0 New Zealand licences. At that time, this made obvious…
Data.govt.nz adopted an international data harvesting open standard (data.json) to automate agency dataset updates and additions. There are tools available to help generate the correct format and the open standard data schema is detailed with examples.
The mandated standard to be used to format date of birth data for sharing purposes.
The toolkit provides access to guidance, resources, and tools to help people and organisations to steward data effectively.
Earlier today, the first of a new GCDS speaker series, Raraunga Ara Rau, took place at Stats NZ. Read more about it here.
Social enterprises and charities are well placed to benefit from Open Data. Unlike their for-profit contemporaries, social enterprises and charities prioritise the creation of social value over economic value.
Today Stats NZ released the Algorithm Impact Assessment toolkit. Read more about the process designed to support informed decision-making about the benefits and risks of government use of algorithms.
Metadata describes your dataset to others in a standardised way. Having good quality metadata helps people discover and use your dataset. This guidance provides a description and examples of good practice metadata when releasing on data.govt.nz.